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Anti-malarial drug Trump touted is linked to higher rates of death in VA coronavirus patients, study saysquote:More than 27 percent of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine died, and 22 percent of those treated with the combination therapy died, compared with an 11.4 percent death rate in those not treated with the drugs, the study said. I can't believe Dr Elon would give Jared and Trump bad advice.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Anti-malarial drug Trump touted is linked to higher rates of death in VA coronavirus patients, study says How do we get the one drooling idiot to take it out on the other?
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Let Elon design Space Air Force One.
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SelenicMartian posted:Let Elon design Space Air Force One. lets all tweet this at him
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Apr 23, 2020 21:05
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Get ready for Starlink this winter! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...nd-market.shtml It's very real and beautiful.
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there was a great comment in an ars article about this today claiming that the planned solution to the issue with the low orbit/fast transit of the individual sats was to have each customer with a dish array that could track multiple transponders at once as they wiz over the horizon, to keep there from being constant service drops. i have no idea if it's based on anything starlink has ever claimed or if it's wholly that person's imagination, but it's hilarious either way
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infernal machines posted:there was a great comment in an ars article about this today claiming that the planned solution to the issue with the low orbit/fast transit of the individual sats was to have each customer with a dish array that could track multiple transponders at once as they wiz over the horizon, to keep there from being constant service drops. The antenna is said to be a phased array the size of a pizza box and would cost at least $1000 if mass produced, according to an antenna company guy. Also nobody actually built one yet
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Apr 24, 2020 00:50
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BMan posted:The antenna is said to be a phased array the size of a pizza box and would cost at least $1000 if mass produced, according to an antenna company guy. Also nobody actually built one yet Yeees, phased array with (multiple?) spot beam tracking, you're a genius musk!  If they sell a Tx/Rx phased array for 1000 bux (lol) I'm buying it.
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Apr 24, 2020 01:01
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that $1k pricepoint has a huge asterisk next to it for sure
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Apr 24, 2020 01:15
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$1k if you pledge via Kickstarter
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Apr 24, 2020 01:17
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I literally am a ham radio operator that has made contacts on our low orbit satellites for the past twenty years. musk is a loving idiot and has no business shipping 30,000 tons of space junk into low orbit so his cars can be remotely disabled anywhere on earth when you forget to pay your monthly DLC fees
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Apr 24, 2020 01:22
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infernal machines posted:that $1k pricepoint has a huge asterisk next to it for sure Well, that price is only available to those who agree to martian indentured servitude.
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Jonny 290 posted:I literally am a ham radio operator that has made contacts on our low orbit satellites for the past twenty years. musk is a loving idiot and has no business shipping 30,000 tons of space junk into low orbit so his cars can be remotely disabled anywhere on earth when you forget to pay your monthly DLC fees do you think he should install OS/2 warp on his cars
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it works for ATMs, and at least it's not ubuntu
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Stefan Prodan posted:do you think he should install OS/2 warp on his cars i dont know anything about os/2 warp sorry
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Is there any rundown on how Starlink is purported to work? Obviously you can't just put a bunch of wi-fi routers in orbit and have people connect to them with the standard wi-fi radios in their devices. (though I wouldn't be surprised if that's how Elon wants it to work because he's a dumbass) So what hardware will you need to connect to it? How much does it cost? Will it actually be affordable to people in backwoods areas who already access the internet via cell phone network? Will it even be faster than cell phone internet? Have I already put more thought into it than he ever did? infernal machines posted:there was a great comment in an ars article about this today claiming that the planned solution to the issue with the low orbit/fast transit of the individual sats was to have each customer with a dish array that could track multiple transponders at once as they wiz over the horizon, to keep there from being constant service drops. wait seriously? I read this before writing up the previous bit of my post and I had assumed that the antenna described was going to be on the satellites for tracking each other. He thinks that's something that is practical for a consumer to buy? 
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Apr 24, 2020 03:10
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I wish he figured out how loving stupid his idea was before making GBS threads useless garbage into the sky
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don't worry every transponder will be part of a mesh network!* *none of the satellites launched so far have the hardware for this
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DarkDobe posted:Go look up Kreosan on youtube. First video I click and they're crawling through the Chernobyl reactor. Pro work, thank you very much.
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I'm catching up on the thread but this caught my eye from before musk even announced that he was giving 'ventilators' out (that turned out to be CPAP machines)Arcteryx Anarchist posted:he'll try to resell CPAP machines with some extra plastic cladding as ventilators
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Apr 24, 2020 03:35
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Stefan Prodan posted:do you think he should install OS/2 warp on his cars Might fix the panel gaps.
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Pidgin Englishman posted:First video I click and they're crawling through the Chernobyl reactor. The Chernobyl saga is still ongoing I believe? They had secret hideouts in the abandoned buildings there last I watched - but the reactor visit is new! Their earlier videos often featured the sounds and aftermath of Russian military attacks, and a lot of backyard science/electrical 'engineering'.
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BattleMaster posted:Is there any rundown on how Starlink is purported to work? Obviously you can't just put a bunch of wi-fi routers in orbit and have people connect to them with the standard wi-fi radios in their devices. (though I wouldn't be surprised if that's how Elon wants it to work because he's a dumbass) You'll need a receiver that I believe was described to be the size of a pizza box. Generally satellite internet is you bouncing your signal off a satellite down to some ground based dish that then routes all your traffic over the internet. The current systems are extra suck because they have like 800ms of latency. Starlink is supposed to be less because the units are much closer to earth so it's probably just adding 40-80ms of latency on top of your regular latency to your destination on the internet. All it does is add latency vs. a ground based connection but it's "better than nothing" They have theorized an idea where all the dishes will bounce signals between them, so theoretically if you're going from say, Texas to Korea, it's faster routing between satellites than going across undersea transmission lines and you'll save a bit of latency on really long hops. Like full self driving, this exists mostly in theory. In fact probably even more theoretical since FSD at least drives the cars well enough to hit fire trucks. It's also going to be 50-100% more expensive than getting Comcast or w/e and each node has relatively low (10Gbps) bandwidth so it will suck rear end if a lot of people get it in dense population areas. Basically it's going to be an internet upgrade for like, oil tankers and RVs who can afford to pay more for mediocre service and that's pretty much it. How that's going to justify all the money they're spending deploying it - lol
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MunchE posted:You'll need a receiver that I believe was described to be the size of a pizza box. it's worth pointing out that this hypothetical receiver also does not exists as described, there's is no pizza box sized phased array that can track multiple sats as they wiz across the sky in their super low orbits. and if at some point there is it's certainly not going to cost $1000 so that doesn't exist, much like the point to point connections between the satellites don't exist, nor do the routing protocols for a several thousand node mesh. starlink physically cannot do any of the things they've claimed thus far, what they can do is maybe offer a really lovely version of regular satellite internet service, with lower latency for the minute or so at a time you're connected. nevertheless, musk is boosting thousands of these things into LEO
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what country do you think will be the first to say “actually gently caress this” and start knocking down starlink with anti satellite weapons
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probably none, since that'd be an absolutely insane escalation and most likely violate a ton of international treaties
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infernal machines posted:probably none, since that'd be an absolutely insane escalation and most likely violate a ton of international treaties So "North Korea" (actually the Russians or Chinese), then?
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infernal machines posted:probably none, since that'd be an absolutely insane escalation and most likely violate a ton of international treaties It'd be pretty fuckin sweet tho
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Are they close enough that, say, a university lab grade laser could cause appreciable damage to delicate systems? Cause I could definitely see a frustrated astronomy department pulling an interdisciplinary Real Genius.
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MunchE posted:It'd be pretty fuckin sweet tho gently caress ya
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Not Alex posted:Are they close enough that, say, a university lab grade laser could cause appreciable damage to delicate systems? Cause I could definitely see a frustrated astronomy department pulling an interdisciplinary Real Genius. Now that would be sweet. Maybe organize a distributed effort with other institutions, a real life reverse Low Orbit Ion Cannon.
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infernal machines posted:probably none, since that'd be an absolutely insane escalation and most likely violate a ton of international treaties considering how tiny the things are and how fast they are going you'd probably want to burst a nuke to take out the entire cluster BUT i think people would frown on detonating a nuke in low orbit even if it didn't actually hurt anyone but satellites
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Gonna go ahead and say any tx/rx phased array antenna the size of a pizza box that exists today is gonna a. be in the nose of a fighter jet b. be top secret hardware c. cost... a little more than $1,000
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just hire spacex to carry a giant net into orbit and tell them it's to "catch the cosmic energy" or something
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Lady Militant posted:considering how tiny the things are and how fast they are going you'd probably want to burst a nuke to take out the entire cluster BUT i think people would frown on detonating a nuke in low orbit even if it didn't actually hurt anyone but satellites the whole "emp an entire continent" thing would probably be unpopular
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infernal machines posted:the whole "emp an entire continent" thing would probably be unpopular couldn't you wait until they were above the middle of the ocean, and the size of the nuke wouldn't need to be that big. idk man I'm putting on my best SAC officer act whadya want from me
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You could probably stick a laser strong enough to gently caress up optics/solar arrays in a cubesat but it wouldn't have propulsion needed to intercept stuff and without using spaceflight certified components it would only survive for like a week or two
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Apr 24, 2020 18:23
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Just put some fire trucks in the sky and those satellites will crash into them
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infernal machines posted:probably none, since that'd be an absolutely insane escalation and most likely violate a ton of international treaties imagine a command and conquer game where one of the factions is elon musk
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Lmao I love hearing people justify starlink by saying how nice it will be for poor people all over the planet to get free internet. Motherfucker it's not going to be free, how are you supposed to make profit off people that can't afford to pay you anything? That's like saying won't it be nice when everybody in Africa has a free model 3.
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