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How much physical space would an exabyte of data require?
DAL59 replied to daniel l.'s topic in Science & Spaceflight
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Microsoft announces electronic voting system
DAL59 replied to Shpaget's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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How much physical space would an exabyte of data require?
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THE TITLES AND PLOTS ARE THE SAME! Both Are: 1. Last movie in a series 2. Longest movie/episode in a series 4. Characters immediately half "win" (voyager returns home after 23 years, avengers kill present thanos) 5. Multi-year time skip 6. Involve a bad world which the characters have gotten used to 7. Several characters are in degrading states (fat thor, insane tuvok) 8. Time heist using specially developed particles 9. Past version of BBEG is intercepting communications 10. BBEG has a cyborg adopted daughter that joined the good guys 11. Time travel does not create a paradox 12. Protagonist sacrifices themself to kill BBEG, drops a one liner 13. Final fight has whole fleet attack BBEG ship 14. All the bad guys are deactivated/turned to dust 15. Many people had doubts about wanting to fixing the timeline
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The trains are coal powered though
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"The story takes place in an alternate future, where trains are capable of interplanetary travel." Oh no
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There so many stories involving a pair of cops where one of the cops is a robot: iRobot, the caves of steel, detroit become human, blade runner, ghost in the shell, robocop, that holodeck epsiode of TNG It even has a TVtropes page https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndroidsAndDetectives
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In Titan by Stephen Baxter, most of the science is hard, but he has what I can "nerd fanservice" They retrofit two museum apollo capsules to land on Titan. 1. The museum capsules are degraded and do not have all components 2. No one at NASA would have experience in using or repairing them. 3. It would be cheaper to build a new capsule than to retrofit apollo museum capsules. 4. The capsules will be used to land on Titan, something they are not remotely built for. 5. The capsules will have to survive 6 years of exposure to space, something they are not built for. 6. They do not replace the apollo computer, but obviously reprogrammed it for their mission. Remember, the computer code was written using manually sown rope. How did they find someone who new how to do that? Why did they keep the old apollo buttons and computer? That makes no sense!
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It was a little like if Wile E. Coyote strapped his ACME rocket to his back to catch the roadrunner and then proceeded to give you a 20 minute lecture on the delta-V requirements required to reach the roadrunner who had positioned himself at the Earth-Moon L2 point.
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Its Endgame time. All spoilers must be in spoiler. PSA: Avoid stackexchange, lots of spoilers in titles
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What are NASA's odds for landing on the Moon in 5 years?
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Compared to the Lunar Gateway, this is something that a) actually get popular support b) does not require russian cooperation c) accomplishes scientific goals While many plans for the Lunar Gateway had no human landings, the ones that did required long term fuel storage, which a direct moon mission would not require. An SLS could probably launch a direct moon landing, or do a 2 launch EOR, so less launches than building the Gateway. So, this is actually plausible, though it would be far cheaper to buy some seats on Starship.