Ingenuity captured this photo with its RTE (Return To Earth) color camera on Flight 49 which occurred on Sol-752 (April 2, 2023). James Sorenson did some extra processing to this picture to set the framing as well as color balance it to better approximate what the scene would really look like as if someone were flying with...
The aerodynamics are different enough on Mars with its thin atmosphere, it startles me to think about how much data is being collected with every flight that informs designs on future Martian aircraft.
I wonder how long until we have fixed wing drones flying continuously in Martian skies.
Any fixed wing drones would need a flat airfield to take off / land
I think you’re still using Earth’s atmosphere (and gravity) for what you have in mind. For one, you only need and airfield to land if you ever intend to land. We already have fixed with aircraft that can fly continuously for 90 days at a time. Mars gravity is only about 1/3 of Earth’s which helps, but it also has a much lower density atmosphere which hurts. Second, you only need an airfield to take off, if you’re already on the ground.
Perhaps one far future approach is to build a fixed wing aircraft that would fly continuously, and could perhaps deploy its wings during descent into Martian atmosphere on arrival negating the need for it to ever touch the ground as part its mission.
how will they express how powerful, resourceful, and therefore desirable they really are?
Well the first step would be to come to terms with how powerless, unresourceful, and therefore undesirable they really are. From there they can take action to become what they want by improving themselves not by comparison with others, but by comparison to where they themselves were the day before.
The idea of exceptionalism is toxic if its not recognized as an ideal to aspire to, but likely never fully achieve. However, the journey there, and your realized gains in the effort are the real payoff. You become a better version of yourself by trying to improve, but circling back to the beginning: no improvement can occur if you don’t recognize and acknowledge where we all start: Powerless and unresourceful.
All of the above applies irrespective of gender. If some men want to hang onto the idea of superiority over women simply because they are men, then they can take their old ideas with them to the dustbin of history.
Make a fridge or a washer, …that lasts a decade without paying for repairs to impress me.
They exist, but they’re brands you’ve possibly never heard of and are typically sold as “Commercial grade” appliances. They are significantly more expensive, look much more plain/utilitarian and usually far fewer features. If thats what you’re looking for you can buy them, just be prepared to pay 5 to 10 times more than your normal big box store choices.
or a car that lasts a decade without paying for repairs to impress me.
There are cars available that are more reliable today than any other time in history. There was a time just a few decades ago when having 100,000 miles on the car would mean its time for the scrappers. Now those same mileage cars are still selling for 5 figures.
The biggest hole in that plan would be if another crew vehicle comes online, like crewed Dreamchaser, whatever Blue Origin’s hush-hush capsule is called, or even Gaganyaan.
Not that I’ve heard Lockheed even hint at it, they could try to come out with a cheaper LEO version of Orion when the next Commercial Crew contract comes around. With todays (Beyond LEO) Orion having made now 3 un-crewed flights, I imagine lots of data exists on where they could cut cost to make an Orion that isn’t as beefy to only service LEO.
Crewed Dreamchaser might also be a contender in the next Commercial Crew contract, especially of Sierra Space has some Cargo Dreamchaser flights by then.
I suppose they have to be allowed to bid on a hypothetical new Commercial Crew phase, but Lockheed’s Orion cost and development or manufacturing timelines just can’t be allowed anywhere near a viable, scalable, sustainable program.
That’s the beauty of the Commercial Crew contracts. Its fixed bid. It doesn’t matter how inefficient the internal processes are or expense of parts. Those costs are borne on the vendor, in this case that would be Lockheed. So if Lockheed is able to make a cost effective version of Orion they could choose to bid for the next Commercial Crew contract (if and when it occurs). NASA won’t be responsible for any overages, just like they aren’t on Starliner.
There are so many options on the horizon that we shouldn’t keep getting bullied into accepting Lockheed.
I agree, I’m not looking for another Constellation program. I’m not suggesting being stuck with yet another “cost plus” contract. I’m suggesting Lockheed compete on fixed price just like SpaceX, Boeing, and Sierra Space is.
The draft notice that eliminates a Russian citizen from accessing banking, travel, healthcare, and many other social services seems to me creates another problem I haven’t heard yet.
If you’re essentially cut off from legal society for consumption of goods and services needed to live, and you’re resigning yourself to that fate to save your live (avoid the draft), then the only other outlet to get those things needed for life would be crime, right?
Further, I have to imagine otherwise law-abiding Russian citizens likely don’t have the skills to become an effective petty criminal overnight, which would mean the alternative would be throwing your lot in with organized crime, of which Russia has plenty of.
Does this mean that the ranks of the mob are swelling with not only fresh people, but also lots of high quality skills that the mob may not normally be able to access because those skill provide a good livelihood?
What symptoms/measurements in the news would we start to see to support that this could be occurring now or in the future?
Because those in power think they’re immune to consequences for their actions.
I think its more nuanced than that. I don’t think they think they are immune from the consequences, but rather they believe they can weather the consequences no matter how bad they get. I would guess the super wealthy all have escape plans with liquid wealth, pre-planned/prepared travel arrangements and multiple passports that would allow them to travel to a separate functioning society if ours falls around our ears.
Hmm, is this why they buy super yachts? Is the escape plan to simply live on the boat in the middle of the ocean in luxury if all ports of call fall into chaos?
A peer reviewed study (especially when the results are reproduced by another group performing the same experiments and receiving those same results) is the difference between science and anecdote.
The irony is not lost on me that the study itself is of those that rejected completely separate scientific studies, and paid with their lives in doing so.
The only real gripe I have with the movie is that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence have zero chemistry, which kind of kills the whole romantic element of the film.
That actually helped make the movie more plausible. Pratt’s character knew almost nothing about her, but formed an opinion and love based upon what he wanted her to be. She wakes up, and is (surprise!) an actual human being with thoughts and feelings of her own and very little about what Pratt’s character projected onto her. At the same time she’s dealing with the struggles that the only other awake human is essentially her murderer, and for her to find some other human to connect with, she’d have to perform the same egregious act on someone else against their will.
It felt like a struggle from before our modern age where a woman might have to marry someone she doesn’t even like to make sure she has food, shelter, power, etc. She came to terms with her situation and made of it what she could like millions of women before her in a world dominated by someone else.
Although she could have gone back to hypersleep in the end but decided against it, presumably because she had a glimpse of how he must have felt when she thought he was dead.
I know thats the Hollywood desired take, but if we’re looking at the more realistic gritty vision we see a darker answer to Jennifer Lawrence’s character.
Since there was only one capsule that could put someone back to sleep, she could choose to save herself. However, she knows that she would have left the psychopathic murderer of Chris Pratt’s character to run wild for a few more years before he would wake up someone else when he gets lonely again. There is no second pod that could put someone back to sleep. She could have murdered him, then used the medical pod to go back to sleep, but then she too would take on and share Pratt’s “murderer” title.
So she sacrifices herself in the only way that no one else but her will die. She resigns herself to the hell of a life with Pratt’s character.
If the GOP candidate is so enthusiastic to extol the benefits of being a slave, why has he not volunteered himself into slavery so that, he too, could gain these benefits he’s claiming enslaved people received?
“POOLE, England, July 21 (Reuters) - A little-publicized clause in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act has companies scrambling to recycle electric vehicle batteries in North America, putting the region at the forefront of a global race to undermine China’s dominance of the field.”
But my question is why even make the qualifier ‘US made’ if foreign made batteries qualify? Don’t lie, just say they’re battery recycling regardless of origin.
The for the tax credit rule is:
New batteries manufactured in the USA
New batteries manufactured in the USA or outside the USA, but recycled in the USA
The reason “Batteries manufactured outside of the USA” doesn’t count is because it does nothing to incentives battery manufacturing or recycling in the USA.
I think your complaint is really with the wording the author of the article chose. Here’s straight from the US Treasury department on the Inflation Reduction Act:
“To meet the critical mineral requirement and be eligible for a $3,750 credit, the applicable percentage of the value of the critical minerals contained in the battery must be extracted or processed in the United States or a country with which the United States has a free trade agreement, or be recycled in North America—as mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act.”
“Bud Light marketing campaign and falling stock prices.”
“All options are on the table and woke corporations that put ideology ahead of returns should be on notice,”
Desantis really doesn’t think things through, does he? Corporations already put returns ahead of ideology. The ultimate reason Bud Light did this promo was because it was seeking returns from beer purchases from the trans community and trans supporters. Companies of this size don’t do things out of the goodness of the hearts of the board of directors. They do these things because statistics and marketers believe these actions will lead to more profits for the company.
Here’s a poll result AnBev could easily point to:
“But Opposition To Discrimination Remains: The Post/KFF poll found substantial majorities support laws that prohibit discrimination against transgender Americans, ranging from 65% supporting such laws for the U.S. military to 73% supporting laws that prohibit discrimination in schools and the workplace and 74% backing laws that bar housing-related discrimination.” source
65% of Americans support laws prohibiting trans discrimination. This would be a large majority of Americans. So potentially more beer drinkers. What Desantis is saying AnBev must do, they’re already doing, chasing the most dollars. It just so happens that those most dollars are not in anti-trans pockets.
I’m wondering if this class of devices counts as the first man portable directed energy weapon fielded in combat. There have been laser weapons that were ship or shore based. I think even some that have been some experimental plasma weapons that are truck mounted. Through all of this though, no man portable…until now?
I canceled and then my moochers signed up for their own.
This was where Netflix planned to make their money back from folks that cancel. I’m sure they ran the numbers and arrived at the “more money” answer when they enforce sharing crackdown.
Dude. Do you think that “international waters/airspace” means you can just anything? Consider airlines. What happens if you suddenly drop trou and shat in the aisles? You will be restrained and arrested the moment you land.
Cameron is talking about binding the owners not the passengers with his proposed regulations. If I own the airplane I can totally shit on the floor and there is no law to stop me.
Similarly, people on ships are bound by the laws their ship is flagged with.
Exactly, future-risky-sub-owner could simply seek out a country that doesn’t adhere to any safety regulations. I imagine there would be many small nations which could have their “Private submarine regulation” laws bought for a relatively small sum of money.
In addition, insurance companies won’t insure your vessel if you decide to not obey any laws. That alone can destroy your business venture.
The insurance angle is a good one, but that would just mean they would have to go uninsured (or self insured) and risk losing clients that have a problem with it.
'Absurd': DeSantis car crash reveals he's using state vehicles for presidential campaign (www.rawstory.com)
Ingenuity Helicopter flight 49 RTE - Altitude 16 meters (52 feet) (lemmy.world)
Ingenuity captured this photo with its RTE (Return To Earth) color camera on Flight 49 which occurred on Sol-752 (April 2, 2023). James Sorenson did some extra processing to this picture to set the framing as well as color balance it to better approximate what the scene would really look like as if someone were flying with...
Why the right can never outgrow the masculinity crisis. (www.thenation.com)
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)
The AirPods Pro “could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort.”
Competitor news (for some value of "competitor"): Boeing recorded another charge for Starliner capsule, totalling $1.5 billion to date (www.cnbc.com)
“Boeing’s Starliner losses total $1.5 billion with NASA astronauts still waiting to fly” by Michael Sheetz and Leslie Josephs at CNBC....
Russia raises the maximum age of conscription as it seeks to replenish Ukraine forces (www.theguardian.com)
From 2024, anyone aged 18 to 30 will be called up for a year of military service, with those served draft notices banned from leaving the country.
Two Russian helicopters downed by MANPADS (streamable.com)
Canadian goose in its natural habitat (lemmy.ca)
Google Web Environment Integrity draft draws developer rage (www.theregister.com)
Safe to say, this proposal has gone down like a poweroff -fn
DeSantis lets go of more than 1/3 of campaign staff as reset continues (www.politico.com)
UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers, potentially dodging calamitous strike (apnews.com)
Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds (wapo.st)
Opinions: What is a movie you genuinely like, that is rated below 60% on rotten tomatoes? (xkcd.com)
Inspired by the linked XKCD. Using 60% instead of 50% because that’s an easy filter to apply on rottentomatoes....
DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery (www.washingtonpost.com)
GOP presidential candidate draws renewed criticism after suggesting slavery helped African Americans develop skills such as being a blacksmith...
Dead EV batteries turn to gold with US incentives (www.reuters.com)
“POOLE, England, July 21 (Reuters) - A little-publicized clause in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act has companies scrambling to recycle electric vehicle batteries in North America, putting the region at the forefront of a global race to undermine China’s dominance of the field.”
Amid talk of rebooting his campaign, DeSantis pivots to attacking Bud Light instead of Disney (www.dailykos.com)
Anti-drone rifle "Night Fighter X" with a range of 2.5 km in service with the Armed Forces (sopuli.xyz)
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Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown (www.avclub.com)
Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff
Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work (www.theverge.com)
James Cameron calls for regulations for tourist subs after Titan disaster (www.independent.co.uk)