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by kidme5 2y ago
The Cadillac CTS utilizes a system that pumps the vehicle’s engine and exhaust sounds into the vehicle using its sound system. Called Engine Sound Enhancement (ESE), the system amplifies the vehicle’s engine and exhaust sounds through the a
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by kidme5 2y ago
Main points from the link: Trump has been pitching a reboot of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative using Elon's Starlink. At least publically since his reelection campaign: "the United States will build a missile defense sh
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by kidme5 2y ago
The quantum "threat" is a great excuse to get everyone to adopt new backdoors. If you use these it better be enveloped in a more trustworthy encryption.
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by kidme5 2y ago
Great podcast, also Russia will just stage nukes in orbit so they can't be intercepted during their vulnerable boost phase. In fact they recently built this capability to do so.
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by kidme5 2y ago
Some choice excerpts: - Since Reagan’s SDI program, the Republican think-tank Heritage Foundation (wrote Project 2025) has advocated for spaced-based weapons to “ensure peace through American strength”. In 2024, Heritage issued video clips
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by kidme5 2y ago
Some people want to win bigly again. Nukes have been stopping that.
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by kidme5 2y ago
the sad thing is Starlink satellites have a significant impact on one of the scariest human threats-- nuclear war. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
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by kidme5 2y ago
username "addicted" eh?
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by kidme5 2y ago
Mars was debunked by Elon's own xAI https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
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by kidme5 2y ago
Kessler Syndrome is the main problem with Elon's plan to build a nuclear defense shield in LEO according to Grok: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
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by kidme5 2y ago
The idea that "DARPA is incompetent" because they promote hair-brained ideas, is one of their biggest ruses. Of course they're competent. Corollary: Elon Musk https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comment
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by kidme5 2y ago
This may give some insight on the creepiness you sense, it involves DARPA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
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by kidme5 2y ago
post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40628584
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by kidme5 2y ago
$10k.. peanuts. Elon might lose $500B to his xAI mistake that came out today: https://grook.ai/share?id=e269e88a7b1a71eff4f176c864b30161&x...
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by kidme5 2y ago
Yes, SpaceX is said to be developing something more akin to Brilliant Pebbles, eventually using kinetic interceptors like https://castelion.com is developing. (team at company are all SpaceX starshield people). Intercepts ICBM i
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by kidme5 2y ago
If you're going to downvote, please explain any disagreement with the references.
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by kidme5 2y ago
Original leak via xAI: https://grook.ai/share?id=e269e88a7b1a71eff4f176c864b30161 Quotes & citations: - Nature study on Mars being infeasible with Starship: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-
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Elon's xAI chatbot says SpaceX's quiet part out loud(old.reddit.com)
15 points by kidme5 2y ago|12 comments
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by kidme5 2y ago
that blog post is all they have so not much to worry about company wise
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by kidme5 3y ago
Apparently Grooks are satirical poems used for covert political resistance. So that is a good fit.
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by kidme5 3y ago
Elon did say it was pronounced grōk.
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by kidme5 3y ago
Musk offered the Chief Engineer title to Michael D. Griffin who is discussed elsewhere in this hackernews post. That was mentioned in Liftoff. Griffin basically felt he could pull more strings in Washington.
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by kidme5 4y ago
Sin tax?
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by kidme5 4y ago
Feels like intentional bury. The OP about Space Development Agency is a big deal.
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by kidme5 4y ago
Haven't we already been through this with the advent of Google?
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by kidme5 4y ago
They (launcher of nuke) can use satellites to track their own missile and the interceptor. Also separately, communication/radar works fine through reentry plasma once you go up to 20-50 GHz frequency.
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by kidme5 4y ago
The end of this story (paying taxes on $7500 winnings) seems to be hinting at something. Is the message that of course nobody follows all the rules? (Pays those gift taxes)
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by kidme5 4y ago
The nuke could be programmed/signaled to actually detonate if it encounters an interceptor AND is within X distance of target territory. In which case, it is an atmospheric nuclear explosion probably with EMP effects. This is one reaso
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by kidme5 4y ago
Asking because of the renewed interest in a global missile defense system by the US? https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency Lots of references in there, some seem to answer your question.
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by kidme5 4y ago
An honest criticism of Payload is it has no comments section. It also seems a bit Fox News-y.

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