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Bideo James posted:why did we abandon the shuttle system? Turns out reusing the same spacecraft for repeated atmospheric exits and re-entries is a terrible idea Lmao Lmfao
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Three Olives posted:I think they basically admitted at some point that it was just to test advanced military space systems, materials, radars, antennas, trusters, cameras, etc before they actually developed actual satellites that used them, i.e. stuff they were almost certainly secretly doing from the Space Shuttle bay before the program was ended. it does that and also inspects satellites of other countries too
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Watching Iron Man 2 and the best line they could come up with for Musk to say to the guy with the armor powered by a magic reactor that he created in a cave out of scrap, is “I’ve got an idea for an electric jet”
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Three Olives posted:I think they basically admitted at some point that it was just to test advanced military space systems, materials, radars, antennas, trusters, cameras, etc before they actually developed actual satellites that used them, i.e. stuff they were almost certainly secretly doing from the Space Shuttle bay before the program was ended. It makes more sense for the air force to have their own thing. Otherwise you either have to read in random civilian astronauts into whatever SCI compartment they would need for the mission, or buy an entire shuttle launch with cleared personnel.
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electric jets are a laughable idea, too. if musk knew anything about jets or electric vehicles he probably would have protested that line.
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i'm pretty sure musk was tweeting about electric jets at one point
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infernal machines posted:i'm pretty sure musk was tweeting about electric jets at one point https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1320180525009571845?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294607951357870082?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1298017332904620033?s=20 Hillary 2024 has issued a correction as of 05:18 on May 5, 2021 |
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Do Muskbots dream of electric jets?
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:Why sell carbon credits when you can do bitcoins? Why not carbon offset credits for bitcoin mining? Bonus $$$ if you can work in NFTs somehow.
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Can someone explain carbon credits to me because it just sounds like people paying money to be able to claim they're not polluting the air.
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Zerilan posted:Can someone explain carbon credits to me because it just sounds like people paying money to be able to claim they're not polluting the air. you already understand it perfectly
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Companies that don't emit carbon have carbon credits, they sell them to companies that emit carbon, but need more credits. This solves climate change somehow.
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ok make an electric rocket then if your so smart
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Carbon credits:carbon tax :: cryptocurrency:actual money
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Platystemon posted:Carbon credits:carbon tax :: cryptocurrency:actual money That is actually an extremely adept comparison, since both pretend to be the other while making GBS threads out disproportionate amounts of CO2 to the other.
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Zerilan posted:Can someone explain carbon credits to me because it just sounds like people paying money to be able to claim they're not polluting the air. You already understand it perfectly. It's a shell game. Always has been, always will be.
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I know the answer is "they're stupid" but it boggles my mind anyone can read an Elon tweet - especially ones with "technical" details in them - and not immediately catch onto it being bullshit.
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Elon doesn’t even have the turtleneck and the deep voice of Elizabeth Holmes.
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Zerilan posted:Can someone explain carbon credits to me because it just sounds like people paying money to be able to claim they're not polluting the air. they're what happens when a state claims to have an emissions cap, emissions quota, or emissions tax, but doesn't actually have the guts to punish businesses that exceed the cap it's a mild, overcomplicated subsidy in which companies that don't use their full carbon quota can sell their extra quota to other companies
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I miss the Seattle Supersonics
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Sir Tonk posted:what You'd think a megagenius whose company puts out electric cars would know it's impossible.
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Sir Tonk posted:what well you see Teslas can go really fast (in a straight line) on the road, so obviously that translates 1:1 to flying if you were a genius you'd understand
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So you put the lion's share of the batteries in the belly of the plane? yep what happens if you need to make a landing without landing gear? it won't happen.... we have the best.... landing... gear yeah - but like, what happens if you need to make a landing without landing gear can't happen, won't let it happen. backup... landing gear but... what? titanium armor plates! on the! bottom like... in f1 
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The entire principle of function of jets almost completely excludes them from using electric drive. Their entire thing is that they compress air then combust it. The combustion is ×required× to make them work.
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I have an idea for an electric horse. Edit: it probably wasn't even in the script, he was probably supposed to just shake Tony's hand and that was it, but he wanted to sound like a smart boy and said "electric jet" and Robert Downey jr was a good enough actor to roll with it and move on and everyone decided it was good enough. Cojawfee has issued a correction as of 15:05 on May 5, 2021 |
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Cojawfee posted:I have an idea for an electric horse. The sybian was invented a while ago, just saying 
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Electric jets are strong, and real, and my friend. All you naysayers also denied the reality of spherical pixels being the key to full self-driving. We are held back by flat pixels.
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Cojawfee posted:I have an idea for an electric horse. 
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UnknownTarget posted:The entire principle of function of jets almost completely excludes them from using electric drive. I was going to say this, there is actually a term for a "jet engine" without combustion, it's called a ducted fan.
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Cojawfee posted:I have an idea for an electric horse. I read that as electric house, and I was like, yes, that's generally how they work.
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UnknownTarget posted:The entire principle of function of jets almost completely excludes them from using electric drive. the muskjet will combust batteries as needed
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Three Olives posted:I was going to say this, there is actually a term for a "jet engine" without combustion, it's called a ducted fan. It's not a jet if there's no compression. An electric jet where the electricity is generated by an onboard nuclear reactor is feasible if the reactor is made small by using weapons grade plutonium for fuel.
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UnknownTarget posted:The entire principle of function of jets almost completely excludes them from using electric drive. whoa what if they burned electrons instead smart guy
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UnknownTarget posted:The entire principle of function of jets almost completely excludes them from using electric drive. yes but what if you thought outside the "laws of thermodynamics" box and could compress air without it heating up?
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FAUXTON posted:yes but what if you thought outside the "laws of thermodynamics" box and could compress air without it heating up? they use the compression to make the compression
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human garbage bag posted:they use the compression to make the compression also known as the tesla bustout strategy
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Elon Musk watching old episodes of Jonny Quest and quickly scribbling down in his “My super smart ideas” notebook
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elon says in the tweets his brain just can't handle making an electric jet, so don't feel bad if you can't understand it either
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human garbage bag posted:they use the compression to make the compression a jet powered by jpg compression
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