JoeSchmuckatelli

Wait - CNSA launched and deployed an antenna that big? It's gotta be some kind of record-size, isnt it?

What's their price-point per launch tho? Once they succeed in reusables... then the game is on

That seems likely.

https://twitter.com/procesaleando/status/1577537485873315840/photo/2 Clever. Not smart... But clever.

Well - we are expecting a new Hype video to drop in a matter of weeks... One can hope it addresses MP and proves my trepidations unnecessary

Every 'solution' just seems more complicated than the last. I'm still banking on: MP will be a 'feature to be developed later' upon release (much like KSP), or Peer-to-peer co-op with agreed upon warps, and a 'universal' clock that doesn't let P2P players warp past another's alarm. (With the possibility of a DC'd or offline player's 'warp plan' being sidelined until they are next online; other players would then get to warp regardless of the flight plan in place for the offline player, and the next time they're online their ships come out of stasis and can execute the last saved plan)

Black Hole vomits old star years after eating it Black hole burps up shredded star years after consuming it – Harvard Gazette also: Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right | New Scientist

Neanderthal and Modern Humans overlapped for ~ 2800 years. Modern humans and Neanderthals may have overlapped, shared culture in Western Europe | Science | AAAS

I think the point is about how persistence works in a multiplayer game where players can change the environment while online... and then come back later. That aspect alone isn't sufficient to deal with one of the cornerstone features of KSP - specifically the ability to warp. I've been consistently leery of KSP as an MMOg. Like it really seems weird for a player to be able to join a game at the beginning of 'their' space program, and by the time they make their first Mun/Minmus landing... the moons are already populated by multiple bases by other players. The 'small dedicated server' or rather peer-to-peer 'multiplayer'/co-op seems more feasible - but even then the problems of dealing with warp seem difficult to overcome.

This whole exchange suggests that beyond just being an epic aircraft, the crews and support people who kept it flying were epic. (If you typed that up as a 'plan' beforehand, I doubt such would ever be approved. The fact is, people are amazing - and if they want something badly enough, they'll figure out how to make it happen!)

Back to the finance of space... I do like the kind of thing that pops up in these wild investment environments. The 'throw everything against the wall and see what sticks' approach ain't bad. This group is distinguishing themselves by going green with their rockets: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/10/06/blushift-aerospace-biofuel-space-rocket-jg-orig.cnn-business "edible" rocket fuel. (Note how quickly the CEO regrets bragging to the Blonde Reporter!)

"Big wild card: The job market — Low unemployment and steadily rising wages run the risk that consumers will keep supporting higher and higher prices, particularly for services" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/10/13/what-the-fed-isnt-saying-about-inflation-00061596 FWIW - Disney keeps raising prices https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/disneys-us-theme-park-price-hikes-point-to-continued-strong-demand-and-pricing-power.html ...and they keep filling the parks "attendance has surged by millions of guests per year, and pretty much every single day of 2022 is significantly more crowded than 2012. Similarly, 2022 is much busier than 2020 and 2021." https://www.disneytouristblog.com/fall-off-season-over-disney-world/

Dem Bonez!

@tater Where do we put stuff on these guys? https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/10/06/blushift-aerospace-biofuel-space-rocket-jg-orig.cnn-business https://www.blushiftaerospace.com/

Apparently an InTime joke! So... Way back in the day, when I lived in NorCal and Washington there was a lot of grousing about some of the environmental restrictions on logging, as people tried to preserve the Spotted Owl. https://www.google.com/search?q=save+the+forest+wipe+ass+with+owl&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_nZO0nN36AhVnFTQIHQO_BvAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=412&bih=718&dpr=3.5#imgrc=QcACoKG1Fa_2eM ... https://o-matic.com/blog/blog/2009/09/08/you-cant-wipe-your-ass-with-a-spotted-owl/ ... Actually - here's an article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.pacificrivers.org/uploads/1/1/9/9/119981094/pacific-rivers-winter-2016.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjEvM7Knd36AhW0AzQIHWb5DI04ChAWegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw1TFZu1B9ve_WeEj9bmCOEY Turns out it WAS an inside joke... Unintentionally. Preserved in time. Or rather to the time. A no kidding '90s joke. I guess it's no longer a thing! Yup. Fires and Smoke in Russia (nasa.gov)

I got to ride in a Porsche 935 as a kid. Not the same thing - but I remember the sense of doing something rare and a little bit absurd and a tad dangerous all at once. (Your neighbor is taking a collector's item for a spin - which, of course, what else do you do with a car?) It's funny... While at the time it was a signal event and a source of pride were the opportunity to present itself today, I'd take the ride you got! Simply classic!

@Gargamel I believe you just described 'media'.

That's gotta have been a hoot!

The thing is - a lot of the immediate problems are not systemic... They're reactions to the artificial shocks caused by the pandemic and the responses to it. . But what bothers me is the talk of the problems being related to the very low unemployment. (This resulted in employers offering more competitive terms to employees than they have in a while... But it's hardly been universal) The idea that increases in the cost of labor are the source of inflation - and the best response is to make the money more expensive, to cause layoffs and increase the liquidity of the labor pool is just wrong. The problem I have with it is how bloody cynical it is. Labor wages have not gone up for decades. In the same time, the spending power of the middle class has shrunk and all the capital is held by smaller and smaller percentages of a percentage of the population. Case in point: in 1985 I made $6/hr working construction. The first 3 hours would bank me enough to fill the gas tank on my truck, the next hour would cover lunch and then I needed the next 20 hours to pay rent - plus another 2 for the lunches. Half a week gone and I'm still grinding towards bills and not even close to banking anything, much less the cost of 6-packs. The guys making $20/hr on a site are in the same place today as I was then. The cost of labor should go up. And not be 'inflationary'. I go back to the point I made above. Some economist decided that citizens saving their money in banks was bad, and that the best thing for an economy was hyper liquidity... And in many ways was right - but if they were right: the only way way it stays right is to get the money into the millions of hands waiting to spend it on lots and lots of small purchases - not a very few hands who will buy mega-yachts and Caribbean Islands.

Andor. As someone who's been fairly critical of the Disney serieses... I don't hate it. Seriously - while only 2 1/2 episodes in, it has all the flavor of the SW universe, but isn't trying to be cute about it. And for a TV-14 show... Its got grit. Hoping they keep this up through the entire series...

Finally getting rid of the damn owls?

Won't lie: equal measure of horror and fascination.

I would still pay to play Early Access KSP2.

I remember a time when interest rates (for home loans) were like 13%. While I wasn't quite aware of the overall picture back then, I'd be thrilled if the money I have in the bank made anything, today. Back then (at least in the US) people kept about 10% of their after-tax dollars in savings. By 2012 that was down to 4% - and it has remained relatively flat since then. Somewhere along the way governments became convinced that the best thing for an economy was hyper liquidity - where it made zero sense to allow people to have their money sitting in a bank, earning interest through the traditional savings and loan metrics (not "Savings and Loan") of bank lending. They wanted people's money in the market - where different players could allocate investments and the big players might invest their (or others') money in Interesting and speculative ways free from the regulation of banking. Maybe that's a good thing - maybe. We've certainly seen some good industries getting capital, but we've also seen bursting bubbles. The financial crisis in China (Evergrande) certainly has echoes of past US failures... And I'm betting most of the individuals who 'shoved their money' into the only something that could make them a profit wish they could have kept more in the bank (which, yeah...). It will be interesting to see what the next decade brings. I'm not sure that the economy requires 'virtually free money' which we've seen through the last decade. Even if we go back to a 4% lending rate - that's actually quite low - but the handwringing about 1/4 percent interest hikes by the central banks trying to get ahead of inflation seems to be pearl clutching rather than a real crisis. Interest rates were in the 4% range when SX got funding. In fact there were a lot of successful startups back then that are still going strong today. Yeah I know that the 2000s is called 'the Lost Decade' but my point is that even when interest rates are high enough to make keeping some money in the bank 'worth it', there's usually enough extra capital floating around for some people to be looking for something to shove their money into for hopes of making more than they will by saving or gambling in the Markets.