Tommygun
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You can not tax electricity for electrical cars only, you can increase road taxes, this hits everyone from the cargo, the single mother in an old beat up car to the guy with his Tesla constantly on insane as he charges for free at the company parking house and is required to supply free charging for electrical cars.
Secondary problem is that taxes has multiple purposes, primarily is getting money, secondary is shaping behavior by tax "sinful/ bad" behavior more and reward good behavior.
Now changing tax setup is hard, main operation is to add more taxes to get the budget in balance, however the settings and previous promises shape this, lots of special taxes is legacy who makes no sense today. However society adjust often in surreal ways, Norway has very high car taxes and has seen all sort of tricks, cutting cars into pieces, import as junk and weld together, put oversize baggage rails on an Porsche and import as pickup, all sort of stuff, rules changes and you get other adjustments, many are directly counterproductive.
In short its complicated, doing manned missions to Mars is very simple compared to it.
Here in California they are considering a requirement to have electric meters on electric cars for the purposes of taxing them.
I'm not sure what kind of plan they have for reading them. I guess they could go wireless or have them read at a garage like a smog inspection.
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(is it possible to embed vimeo player here?)
Yes, look for the paper airplane symbol in the upper right of the video display where you first linked to.
Press the symbol and a popup window will show, next copy the "Link" not "embebed".
Nice video.
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Sometimes extinction is a good thing.
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We knew the mission would need a lifting body. Might as well take one that's on hand, right?
What they need is a flying sub. Just put a heat shield and a parachute on it.
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Pilot: "Huston, we have a problem. I have lost the number two engine and I am declaring an in air emergency. We will attempt an emergency landing with the renaming 19 engines."
Control: "Understood, we will foam the runway"
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None.... I'm a 15 year old Canadian.
Well it's time to start Winnipeg Suborbital then......
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Good report, I need to get back to the Outer Planets Mod, it adds a lot to the game.
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I have live next to Vandenberg AFB for the last 30 years, so I can't remember them all.
Well 40 miles away from it, but rockets are bright even in day light and leave long smoke trails.
I also grew up next to a Rocketdyne test facility. I know it's not the same thing, but listening to Shuttle engines so loud that they shake the picture frames out of alinement at home has a big impact on a little kid.
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Now just add a tail hook and you can launch and recover from an aircraft carrier......
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@Mazon Del
I think that could be a direction for future machine tools.
Instead of one machine just using one technique, it uses multiple ones.
We have already seen this done on modular automated assembly lines where they pass the parts back and forth between machines.
Just take it a few steps further and combine more advanced metal 3D printing, CNC type milling, sanding and welding.
You would have something like a machine shop in a box that might be able to preform most of the simple jobs that come into a machine shop for.
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It might take a little fine tuning, but here is my idea:
Fire a tiny piece of metal at the target location with extreme accuracy. Upon impact, some of the kinetic energy will be converted to heating the tiny metal particle and parent metal. At the precise moment of impact, focus enough laser beams on the target area to instantly weld the metal particle. A billionth of a second later, focus precise and timed lasers on the area to instantly laser cool the weld. IT may not be fast, but you could build up 3d parts out of metal and the metal would also be amorphous.
Laser cooling is an actual thing. One of my profs does it.
Wouldn't it be easier to combine something like a heavy duty Makerbot and a MIG welder?
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I wonder if Lockheed Martin has considered using the tug for other purposes when not delivering cargo. It could be used to repair or deorbit satellites reducing orbital debris.
I think repairing satellites in orbit is still too hard right now for robotic craft. Look at the effort it took to do the Hubble missions.
Companies would need to first design their satellites to be repairable and modular before there would be any chance to repair them.
Otherwise you might just end up creating more space debris removing bolts, drilling and cutting off parts of body panels.
You would probably need a government mandate to get companies to spend money to deorbit dead spacecraft too and I don't see much interest in that from Congress.
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Yep, DEFINITELY too far south! I live in California, U.S.Never say never- aurorae have been visible as far south as Cuba before. Of course we'll have bigger things to worry about if that happens again...
CNN was saying it "could" go as far south as Tennessee or Oklahoma (about lat. 35 degrees, that's about Vandenburg AFB in Ca. ), but that was much earlier today.
Well we have a small storm front in California anyways, so we won't see the end of the computer age coming.
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This should be easy, if not wax some plastic who melt easy, as an fallback print the mold for the wax.
I assume this is done already then casting unique or low series items, first I thought about with 3d printers.
They are already combining 3d printing and lost wax casting:
http://www.3dprintingcolor.com/wax-pattern-3d-printing/
And a similar technique:
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Are there ever any clues to an object's orbit that might suggest that an object is extra solar or is there just too much randomness?
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I thought Cygnus was based off a Multipurpose Logistics Module?
Edit: I guess it was only very distantly related.
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The other thing the Russians have is the Functional Cargo Block. Almost every single one of their non-core modules has been some variation on the FGB, mostly because it already exists and it works really well. We'd need something similar, in addition to a standardized core. The problem is, we don't have anything like the TKS to grab an FGB from, since the Shuttle was our main logistics vehicle for ages. Perhaps some sort of ATV derived module? Or buy some FGBs from the Russians?
A modified Unity Node?
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Oh god! Someone get the giant butterfly net!
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Anything I'm missing?
Well the ISS is 320% heavier than Mir was.
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I just saw this story about powdered Alcohol on the news.
Basically you can pour this powder into a liquid to add the alcohol.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/regulator-okays-powdered-alcohol-n322496
The alcohol is absorbed in cyclodextrins that molecularly encapsulated it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
There are several other things that can also encapsulated liquids:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water
http://www.medindia.net/news/healthwatch/powdered-water-the-next-big-innovation-123370-1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_polyacrylate
There are many more, but I got to thinking what else could you use them for.
Some people like to experiment with making solid rocket motors.
Does anyone think there could be a combination that might work as a motor?
Even if it is weaker than a standard motor it might be a fun experiment.
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Well he definitely doesn't fit in well in the politically correct world of the BBC.
I like him on the show and I can imagine him getting out of control at times, but this should have been handled in private.
The BBC would be crazy to get rid of him, but this is the BBC.
Although, to be fair, the public doesn't know if he really is terrible to work with.
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Would something like this give you enough information?
Is Ganymede better than mars?
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Ganymede receives about 0.08 Sv of radiation per day from Jupiter.
So people would need to travel by shielded ships and immediately go under the ice.
It's not undo-able for a mining or science station, but I don't think a lot of people are going to want to colonize it.