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Senator thinks bill that provisions of the new Earth remote sensing bill that effectively ban government entities from purchasing non-Roscosmos ERS data may not be such a brilliant idea, proposes removal of clause
https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1714
https://tass.ru/ekonomika/19491025
Because creating a monopoly is an interesting way to "build an ERS data market"
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21 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:
It would be something weaker than HEAT coming in.
And even weaker than an uranium arrow.
I'm more interested in whether ERA and firing ports are compatible at all. Omitting exotic variants such as fixed firing port weapons like the M231.
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How do explosives "flow" around obstacles?
I'm specifically wondering what would happen if an ERA brick went off next to a rifle stuck out of a vehicle firing port. Let's omit the fact that ERA-equipped vehicles tens to have the firing ports plated over.
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4 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
manga
Japanese media in general seems to be quite stubborn in its research in places where nearly everyone else would've winged it.
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"Yes, I have a radio in my tophat, how could you tell?"
The wearable gadgets of 1922.
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Garrett STAMP
You take this
and remove all the "unimportant" bits:
Well, considering one of the earlier competitors was a literal flying saucer, this isn't too weird.
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The Orlan-10 UAV uses filament-reinforced duct tape to strengthen the attachment of the wing to the fiselage.
ZALA-421-16 uses masking tape to attach its parachute line.
Source: "Chronicles of a UAV operator" telling another channel to not ridicule a... Blue Force drone held together by duct tape - https://t.me/xronikabpla/6057
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16 hours ago, AckSed said:
yttrium, gadolinium or ytterbium
That doesn't exactly scream "affordable seat structure material".
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59,6% of Argentinians vote for lifetime delicensing of doctors who prescibe homeopathic remedies. "Natural" and folk remedies can only be recommended without charging the patient for the appointment.
https://panorama.pub/news/v-argentine-vracej-vypisyvausih-gomeopatiu?vk
Satire, unfortunately.
"In the next referendum, the citizens of Argentina will decide whether predatory microlenders should be declared terrorists and prosecuted with extreme prejudice"
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9 minutes ago, Hotel26 said:
I was pretty shocked to see a 'name' like NdGT make such a shyster-typical statement
To be fair, he and Bill Nye are basically street corner Scientism preachers. It's not a good style of pop-sci.
Don't think I've thrown this in here yet: simulation theory is creationism for avowed atheists.
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3 hours ago, Kerbalsaurus said:
Even if it's true, I find the whole argument dumb. It's not like anything would change. Oh, we live in a simulation? Always have and always will.
There's at least three consequences that some people entertain. One, you've got people trying to incite a glitch in the Matrix just to prove it exists. Two, you've got people trying to "escape" the Matrix, whatever that means (usually it's a problem with their own head).
Three, you've got a really elaborate theory that the simulation has finite computing power, and so any computation-intense civilization could get violently aborted. At the same time, it's quite likely that advanced civilizations would start building their own simulations-in-simulations. Therefore, a believer would (1) have to institute and enforce strict rules against certain avenues of technological development and (2) eradicate all other civilizations, Dark Forest-style. Otherwise, nobody knows when the local galaxy cluster would get Ctrl+Alt+Del.
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A Chinese shipyard wants to jump onto the rake of nuclear-powered commercial vessels
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202312/1303089.shtml
Sorry, but that's going straight into this thread for now. The problems are not technical but economical and political.
The most recent ship, the Sevmorput', was basically not allowed into anywhere besides North Korea.
The Savannah, besides being a poor freighter, was apparently also crippled by red tape in the 1960s, long before Chernobyl.
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36 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:
This student's problem is that she grew up during the COVID-era and in an extremely lax middle and high school where she, being a cheerleader and a member of the dance team, has been able to skip out on accountability because she is extremely popular.
It's such a weird combination. Do these position still hold so much clout in the age where everyone's on Zoom?
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"Do you want the longitudinal or the transverse mounting of your tank's engine?"
Swedish Ikv 91: "No"
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1 hour ago, DDE said:
"So you're saying that an aircraft that is dilapidated because of your bureaucratic obstitance is going to be razed along with the hangar because it's dilapidated!?"
"Ha-ha, bulldozer goes brrrr"
Here's one better!
Vega-C contractor accidentally throws out two fourth-stage tanks into the trash.
https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-case-of-the-missing-vega-avum-propellant-tanks/
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"So you're saying that an aircraft that is dilapidated because of your bureaucratic obstitance is going to be razed along with the hangar because it's dilapidated!?"
"Ha-ha, bulldozer goes brrrr"
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https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1692
TEM Zeus
Total mass dry / fueled 20.6 t / 22 t
Structural gurder mass 10.6 t
Power unit mass 7 t
Propulsion system, dry mass 1.4 t
Support systems dry mass 3 t
UDMH+NTO 0.44 t
Xenon 1 t
Dimensions, stowed 24.9x5 m
Dimensions, deployed 56.7 m x 10.6 m (radiators) / 20.9 m (solar panels)
Inertia moment 72 (X), 7400 (Y), 8400 (Z) t*m2
Launcher Angara-A5
Tug Fregat
Area of (high-temperature?) radiator 696 m2
Reactor output 1900 kWt (thermal), 470 kWt (electrical)
The slide appears to feature both an ion and a rotary MPD variant. I suspect the datasheet is mainly for ion because the rotary MPD has an extra structure atop the reactor in order to connect MPD's rotors directly to the turbine shaft(s). Yes, this means the two variants have opposite thrust vectors.
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6 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
So is it safe to say one’s economic system actually has no bearing on whether production goofs like this happen or not?
Because when I read about the history of the Soviet program, accidents like these are usually attributed to issues inherent to the Soviet system. China eliminated these when it had a big campaign in the 1980s and 1990s to adopt Japanese work ethic, but did Russia not go through anything like this despite a change in economic thinking?
QuoteCarson said he pressed superiors for better safety measures but was ignored. He recalled stepping into the interior of a rocket under construction in 2021 on his first day as a supervisor. Another manager, working 20 feet above him, carelessly dropped a nearly 100-pound hoist, barely missing Carson.
“That’s like a firing offense at other places, but not at SpaceX,” Carson said. “They needed bodies, and Elon needed stuff done.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/
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Progress MS-25 docked successfully but crew had to go to manual control at 217 m after Kurs went off-course.
Also, two sources confirm that someone had dropped a wrench on its radiator during ground prep, and Roscosmos decided against returning it to the manufacturer to fix the "slight" damage.
https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1687 (not Roscosmos)
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10 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
But would these separate cults be able to coalesce into something capable of enacting an agenda of “ending the world”?
This is where we arrive to the politically hairy topic of "how do seemingly incompetent people with utterly loony views are able to seize power in the piranha pond of a 'revolutionary situation'?" A lot of the bloodiest dictatorships in history rode the coattails of earlier coups (February 1917 in Russia, July 1932 in Germany) and somehow overtook far more established and pragmatic powers-that-be (the republican-socialist coalition of industrialists and generals in Russia; von Hindenburg, von Papen and the "cabinet of monocles" plotting to restore the monarchy in Germany).
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19 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:
I am skeptical this could ever become a prevalent worldview. Unless preceded by some catastrophic event that sets back all of civilization by hundreds of years, such a misanthropic view would not catch on.
There's always the cliched counterargument that misanthropy is a luxury, and deprivations quickly cure doubts in humanity.
20 minutes ago, SunlitZelkova said:This may be skirting the rules a bit but I’d also like to mention this. Also, like modern day Gnosticism itself, such a world view would be predicated on people coming to this conclusion on their own, not a small group of men preaching dogma through an organization or social movement to the masses. Part of the reason why Gnosticism disappeared in the early CE when it did was because of the lack of a centralized structure. This apocalyptic future variant of it would probably be stamped out by more organized, comparatively progressive forces.
The overall decentralization (contrasting with internal centralization - comes with the territory when your leader is literally God, Christ or Adam) is actually likely the strength of small-g gnosticism. It's allowed for a mycelium of separate but related cults to endure and spread for almost a millennium and a half.
And that's before it began to shed its religious mimicry and adopted the mantle of "scientific theories of societal transformation".
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2 hours ago, magnemoe said:
I agree, now an interstellar civilization would also be much more safe from this as culture will be different on different planets.
It could go both ways. A unified culture generally drowns out dissident cultures and thus could prevent the rise of some weird, isolated cult that needs to drift away from reality and marinate in its own juices. However, I would agree that, on the net, it's a problem - cultures tend to reach crisis and burn out, and a single global culture will crash and burn harder.
SpoilerHey there, Hollywood! How's global hegemony and trillion-dollar markets treating you?
(Which of course isn't an X-risk, and there is an argument to be made that the cycle of decline of cultures/civilizations Weber et al love to scry for is Western-centric)
2 hours ago, magnemoe said:Captain of the warship escorting the science mission then nuked the base from orbit as its the only way to be sure.
The SCP Foundation franchise calls these a 'memetic hazard'.
2 hours ago, magnemoe said:And this is idiotic unlikely, evolution has strongly selected against these kind of stuff since we had speech.
I'd say the individual human's mind is different enough from others that there isn't a 'skeleton key' for controlling it.
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"Maslov/Maslow" is a pretty generic Russian* surname deriving from the word maslo, butter. Because of this, and because the Anglicized version of the surname is pronounced in a bizarre, almost French (and therefore pompous) way, the concept of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs
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has been satirized in Russian as the Khleboux (Breadoux) - Maslow - Ikroux (Caviaroux) pyramid.
Of course, this works in the concept's favor, because "having enough to butter one's bread" is an existing Russian phraseologism, while caviar/roe (we have language barrier trouble distinguishing the two) is a delicacy sometimes bordering on decadence.
* the individual in question was the descendant of Kievan Jews; Wikipedia has advised me of Polish "Maslow" toponyms, but not the corresponding surname
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There are questions that are best not asked, not the least because any answer wouldn't be helpful.
On 12/1/2023 at 7:11 AM, adsii1970 said:Who says we actually exist and are not some vast computer simulation called SimEarth?
Because the usual Sims player minmaxes character moods at all times, and the result looks awfully like this:
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Shower thoughts removed: What if we are living in a sophisticated simulation?
in The Lounge
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Careful, before long, someone might mention "hyperreality" and "simulacra".
Whoops.