throw9474

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by throw9474 2y ago
You know how when your hand is relaxed, your fingers are curled? When birds relax, their feet curl in a similar way, and this provides enough grip that if they're on a perch, they will automatically hold on as easily as if they're
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by throw9474 2y ago
wouldn't Russia/China/India just put nukes in orbit to be a step ahead?
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by throw9474 2y ago
It's much easier to intercept than enter orbit. ASATs are 100 kg rockets.
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by throw9474 2y ago
Diffuse debris while at higher orbit can take out satellites in those higher orbits (like Iridium, Kuiper, etc..)
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Elon Musk is the Star of Project 2025(old.reddit.com)
11 points by throw9474 2y ago|6 comments
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by throw9474 2y ago
What if every time you accept new ideas, your old self dies a little bit? Our five year old self is already dead.
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by throw9474 2y ago
Quantity ingested
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by throw9474 2y ago
Brainstorm: Artificial sugars, chemicals in so many products from Amazon, hormones in meat, vegan substitutes, new preservatives, new herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers Empirical observation: the two young people I know who had cancer (
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by throw9474 2y ago
The most interesting discussion on Elon's nuclear weapons interception plans was xAI's, https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
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by throw9474 2y ago
100% agree
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by throw9474 2y ago
It's way more direct if you read what it says Elon fans downvote it though.
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by throw9474 2y ago
Elon, was just outed by his own xAI, https://grook.ai/share?id=e269e88a7b1a71eff4f176c864b30161&h...
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Starship is not capable of reaching Mars?(old.reddit.com)
9 points by throw9474 2y ago|11 comments
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by throw9474 2y ago
But apparently Elon Musk hires shills to edit for him favorably: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contribut...
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China's Starlink Competition – G60(circleid.com)
2 points by throw9474 2y ago|0 comments
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by throw9474 2y ago
must be training that thing on classified docs!
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by throw9474 2y ago
Yeah those articles are bogus, they are just guessing at operating expenses and also exclude cap-ex, which is a big miss when we don't know satellite lifetimes.
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by throw9474 2y ago
So it killed 5% of satellites initially and 15% in 6 months?
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by throw9474 2y ago
Agree.. and no coincidence we're in this situation. The funding, key advisors, and the Elon-directed designs at SpaceX have always been very SDI and military aligned. Mars is a great way to inspire engineers that would otherwise not wo
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by throw9474 2y ago
If the interceptors can also function at midcourse then it's not just the ones over Russia that participate. If you look at Starlink orbits, every single satellite in the constellation goes over any given point on Earth (e.g. Moscow) w
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by throw9474 2y ago
The NAS study seems to think kinetic interceptors can reach the booster in minutes but yes it requires a kick stage for the delta V.
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by throw9474 2y ago
I think the idea is in an arms race, if you can't launch ICBM nukes anymore (because of Musk's orbital interceptors) then you have to pre-launch nukes into orbit. THOSE nukes can then strike faster than ICBMs (just like intercepto
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by throw9474 2y ago
I read somewhere this week that China removed their charter clause that "nuclear is a war that cannot be won" as a response to the U.S. potentially having capability to intercept / block their retaliatory strike.
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by throw9474 2y ago
According to a National Academy of Sciences study, the intercept can happen within a couple minutes if the satellite deploying the interceptor is over the enemy territory launching the ICBM.. https://nap.nationalacademies.org&#x2
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by throw9474 2y ago
In support of this, a bunch of SpaceX-ers who worked on Starshield joined a startup that is building hypersonic warheads "at massive scale" (according to their website: https://www.castelion.com/team ) These would
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Starlink as a means to win at nuclear war(ioc.exchange)
21 points by throw9474 2y ago|57 comments
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by throw9474 2y ago
Do you know about DC-X ?
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by throw9474 2y ago
The continued goal of realizing SDI is not secret, nor a conspiracy. Heritage Foundation is quite open about it since proposing the original idea to Ronald Reagan. Griffin is a very influential member. He just pulled a team of SpaceX people
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by throw9474 2y ago
At least it's thinking multimodally
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by throw9474 2y ago
--> 43% of those who consume any meat, consume it infrequently.

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