JoeSchmuckatelli

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Yes - a feature I am looking forward to unlocking ASAP!

Great answer - thanks!

Isn't it easier to lower periapsis at apoapsis?

I thought the same thing. Maybe its not 'safer' but actually 'cheaper' for SX to send up another ship if something goes wrong. (In the past this was rarely an option, but with SX's cadence, they might be able to have a 'standby' / rescue craft available) Pure guess.

You mean the novels? No. When Officers and StaffNCOs need a 'generic Marine name' to use as a cautionary tale, we typically use Joe Schmuckatelli. He's usually a Lance Corporal, because that's the most common rank. It's also the last rank where you can be 'one of the guys'. Our Corporals are true NCOs, expected to demonstrate leadership qualities. Typical scenario: It can also work the other way:

Out of the blue, my intrepid 11 y.o. came up to me asking to buy a book. I figured it would be a novel. Nope. "Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering (Beginners Guide)" (Proud Papa)

This is all I can find: Billionaire who flew to orbit with SpaceX buys three new missions to space - The Verge Other than that (or similar) I just find references to the bespoke suits we've seen for emergencies during pressurized flight.

This is bad. Very bad. Now the Russians know that the next time they're being chased... All they have to do is pitch lunch out the aft tube and the American will get all gummed up!

What you are describing is quite different. Breakthroughs in mathematics are often environmental (to whit: the environment is 'primed', meaning a combination of factors, including prior work / foundational mathematics seeding the knowledge, a talented person and a concurrent need). Newton and Leibniz are credited with Calculus - both men were presented with mathematical problems for which the existing maths could not provide ready answers, and they had the time and talent to discover something new. So to say that because Newton or Leibniz were good at maths, to expect their decendants to have some math talent is fair, but to say because they were pioneers that their decendants should also be pioneers is not. Math and language skills are heritable: Same genes drive mathematics and reading ability -- ScienceDaily Same genes drive mathematics and reading ability -- ScienceDaily Take for instance the number of Nobels awarded to members of the same family. Certainly not every member of the family was so talented, but in many families, the talent combined with opportunity for these coincidences to occur. 10 Nobel Prize Winning Families In Science (wondersofphysics.com) Again - winning a Nobel does not, necessarily correlate with an offspring or relative being likely to win a Nobel... but the underlying ability; the numeric and linguistic skills (which are heritable), combined with education, propensity, inclination and environmental support can come together in such a way that these happy coincidences are slightly less coincidental than statistics alone would suggest.

We all have our biases!

I want to revisit this whole, Do we think that Isaacman is basically fronting a bunch of money in a joint-venture with SX to design/build/sell these things? Because, frankly, if they do put forth a working (and better) EVA suit than others have to date... they'll have a whole new market. Except for the whole 'bespoke' part. While SX's current suits are ridiculously bespoke, atm, it goes against the general design philosophy at SX (produce at scale to drive down costs). Any further info on this?

Isn't something in orbit around the Moon, also in orbit around the Earth?

But your OP is, essentially, 'What happens to people with free and open access to all human knowledge through the internet?' Isn't it? Except that instead of a phone, they've just gotten it downloaded into the wetware. I will suggest that, as both a carpenter and a marksman, there is a whole heck of a lot of difference between reading about a thing and learning how to do a thing. In the output.

Oh I get that; wordplay, puns and other 'fun things' exist across cultures and languages, even if the exact word-phrase doesn't translate. Humor is both specific and universal. (I recall a Chinese-American comic talking about the struggles he had being funny in China after finding success in the US; self-deprecating humor isn't well received there. However, once he 'cracked the code' on what Chinese folks do think is funny, he enjoyed gigs in his mother's homeland).

I've tried to answer on point. As have others. The subsequent scenario I listed was in response to something you wrote later: Again - on point. Heritable traits are heritable. Genetic Skill / Memory (instinct) likely does not exist

That's quite interesting. OTOH, I've heard that Japanese tend to delight in puzzles, hence Sudoku et.al.

You're missing the point.

Hint: Generally, tall and smart. Also... scatter the residents after several generations and you will see regression towards the mean in subsequent generations.

@Spacescifi Let me expand on something else you touched on - and while I could go all scifi with a 'Generation Ship', we don't need to. Posit an egalitarian multi-hundred-billionaire. She decides to find a large island in a tax friendly tropical nation and buys all of the land - moving the locals to nice places wherever they want to go. The island is large enough to sustain a population of 40,000 people. Next she moves all her businesses to the island and invites anyone who meets certain criteria to move to the island, where she will employ them for life (along with providing schools for children, theaters, shops etc. - everything a modern person might want) and grant a retirement. People may come and go at will. Criteria are simple: be tall (women above 5'8", men above 6'1") and have a minimum IQ of 130. Anyone who meets the criteria will get job training into an industry she owns or may work in the supporting services (restaurants, book stores, medical, you name it). She sets up the laws of the island to be egalitarian. Only adults meeting the criteria may live there - so children raised on the island who don't, upon reaching adulthood are relocated anywhere in the world with a scholarship and a stipend. But any child raised there who does, may remain upon reaching adulthood and any non resident who meets the criteria may emigrate there. Everything is voluntary. What do you think the population of this island looks like after several generations?

My point is that 'instinct' may not exist. There is a whole hell of a lot of bias in the early literature about it. Do read the article

I think you need to revisit this. Most human traits are heritable - height, hair color, intelligence and many many others do run in families. Also - 'instinct' is often overstated. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5182125/

Agree - and don't hate that at all, for all the reasons you state. I need to go back to that and compare - thanks for the info! ... Part of the problem in my household started with the low speed scooter chasing by oddly anachronistic cyberpunk 'bodyhackr' characters. My kids just made fun of any scene they were in. I also don't think they were necessary. The writing is the problem. They go to great lengths to create a relationship between Boba and the Sand People - for a couple throw away ideas: he learned the strength of family (belonging), and we hate the Pykes because they killed his family. Okay - those would not be throw away had he drawn on the Desert Power to gain the Daimyo-hood: a Dune-esque and potentially unassailable power base that allows him to basically profit from both the locals and the newcomers - and secretly be helping to raise the circumstances of the SP as thanks for their help. I'd have liked the whole series better if several tribes of Sand People had appeared to help take down the Pykes. Having a positive relationship with Mos Pelgo certainly helps, as does having a local street gang (even one as out of place as the cyberpunk kids). But the absence of the Sand People was odd. ... I echo this sentiment. They started this with Mando and it was something I really enjoyed. I need to go back to the overall direction / Executive Direction of the respective series. Despite having multiple directors and different views /styles - Mandolorian just seemed to work and the story told was tighter and more cohesive. While Boba is an interlude, it could have been tighter. It's got great characters, exists in an almost can't fail universe and had potential... I just don't think it reaches the potential and misses some fairly obvious marks

I'll have to look into that. We got a distinctly different vibe; like the directory was trying to film a 1940s style 'circle the wagons' western. (Watch from 52:40) (1) Hidden Gold (1940) - William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Minor Watson - Feature (Adventure, Comedy, Western) - Bing video To the trained eye, having the entire 'good guy' crew shoulder to shoulder behind a single vehicle or holed up Alamo style in the same building, while the hapless bad guys all stand around outside, exposed? Then the 'tank' shows up, and it's freaking useless, except for the claws which can fight the (howinthewhy) blaster proof animal Rankor? Someone wanted to bring in disparate elements from different SW products and show they're all still in the same universe (and boy, isn't Boba cool - he loved up on the Rankor, which only needed love, and now it's his faithful steed / King Kong). (I get it, SW is supposed to be a pulp fiction space opera... but this felt like one written by someone who studied the genre - who gets the technical aspects... but just doesn't have the feel).

Yes. (Disney has its own police force) Think of the outpost like a corporate building - they can control what goes on inside the building, to the exclusion of all others. Sovereignty is really about the ability to project power or resist intrusion by others. So theoretically, if Lichtenstein had an outpost and decided to forceably enter the neighboring Maldives outpost, legally, Lichtenstein would be in violation and Maldives could defend itself. This would be true if one outpost was Lunar Mining LLC and the other was PiratesRUs, Inc. Now - let's say that Lichtenstein has an outpost next to the Grand Canadian Imperial Colony - and the GCIC decided to annex Lichtenstein... Who's gonna stop them? (Law or no law?)