Re: Polara
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If the problem is resonance, a scale model would not have revealed it. Hopefully they can alter the shape enough for it to not resonate with whatever frequencies are hitting it, without adding too much mass.
Or maybe Starship will never work. If that is the case, how else will we get hundreds of tons to the lunar surface?
Very true. There is a chemist and accountant on youtube who has been carefully monitoring the Starship programme. The first test flight of starship wasted three billion dollars of taxpayer money. The second flight was a waste of three billion dollars of taxpayer money, as was the third and so on.
Also, and I don't know if anyone else has spotted this, Spacex has yet to land a single colonist on Mars. It is all broken promises.
Hehehe, all the magazine and therefore web articles on 'how do I make some money?' assume.
a) you have huge outgoings which can be cut ( don't pay insurance on the Bentley when you only use it two days a year!)
b) you have assets sitting idle ( did you know gold has monetary value? Sell a few dozen of those gold ingots you have in the loft) ( why not rent out some of your properties in Monaco ?)
Even if this were possible,
A) the software would still be microsoft code, full of bugs and bottlenecks and spyware.
B) giving away the software for free would not stop companies from paying $millions to microsoft for the same or inferior versions. If there is no money involved, how do you skim any of it off for yourself and who will bribe you to sign the contract?
Hmmm... Starship is not close to being a functional system in the same way as the shitty Wright Flyer completely failed to carry any passengers at all and the pile of crap that Lindberg threw together never got anywhere near crossing the Atlantic to England.
Ideally the signalling would be in an 'open-source' kind of format so that it is easily recognised by all. If the signals were in a form that humans could detect, that would be even better. Maybe a bright purple light positioned so that it shone towards the following traffic and was triggered by the decelleration of the vehicle it was mounted on.
That is my suggestion: an AI system continuously monitoring the vehicle's velocity via gps, lidar, cameras, gyroscopes ,magnetometers and ouiji boards so that it can detect when the brakes are applied and light up a bright purple light or lights on the rear of the vehicle to inform other road users, robotic and human, of the braking manouver. Simple but effective.
Jesus, has anyone here ever been employed in business?
If someone employs you to do something, be it create a workflow from an existing process or whatever, nobody is interested in that goal being accomplished. The only thing that matters is that it looks like you are doing it and you have some result which looks like what was expected.
If an LLM hallucinates its way to a plausible outcome, that is mission accomplished. Perception is reality.
My computer regularly connects to malicious servers in order to steal my data, I put up with this behaviour because inertia. If, in addition to this behaviour, the latest version of this spyware will also make my NAS unreachable then it may force me to overcome my inertia and go over to a different OS.
Easier, too. No need for sensors to detect other road users, traffic lights or one-way systems, no need for precision gps to keep to the correct side of the road and off the pavement/grass etc. No requirement for lights or indicators.
Just make sure that it is painted black and the person on it is wearing dark clothes at night.
Would you be the type of person who looks at a computing device with microphones, cameras, gps, internet access and an operating system and applications provided by companies who can make money selling your information and say "Whelp, can't possibly be that spying on me, must be psychics to blame."?
Hadn't thought about iTunes for years.
I remember having to download it to use an iPod that I had been given and the first thing it did was rename some music files without asking for permission.
There was apparently some switch in the settings for 'do not make changes to user files without asking' , but I didn't know that at the time .
Anyhoo, it became obvious that Apple had spent a great deal of time and effort to make it as difficult as possible to copy data to and from a storage device so I threw it in the bin and deleted iTunes.
Ah, memories.
Use of industry standard website coding techniques would stop these attacks.
Pretty hard to download someone's bitcoin wallet when every request is intercepted and redirected and requires the execution of 3Gb of javascript, solving of 12 Captchas, consenting to tracking and watching 20 minutes of advertising before timing out and making you start again.
I find it strange that IPV4 has been running out of addresses for twenty years, has run out of addresses ten years ago, and now bitter infighting on a global scale for this scarce resource which is vital for commerce has pushed the price up to an eye-watering $30.
Really?
$30 when streaming companies want $5 for a one-time viewing of a heavily compressed SD resolution version of a fifty year old B movie that is in the dvd bargain bucket at the supermarket?