GreyEyedGhost

TLDR; they use e-bike batteries for electrical power rather than gasoline generators.

This isn’t the early 2000s, pretty much any video player can slow down without audio distortion. Play that back at 50% speed and find me that R you’re talking about. I’m not hearing it.

I should, but I don’t need to to know the horrors of war, even if I’ve been fortunate enough to not experience them personally. I’ve also read Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and have a fair idea about the horrors of living under an authoritarian regime, even if I’ve been fortunate enough to not experience them personally. One of the best ways to stop war is to resist those who would change the borders of other nations through violence, using whatever means are necessary, particularly if there are known abuses of their own citizens, let alone those they conquer, such as we have seen so many times with Russia.

He’s done little better than an index fund overall, financially. This isn’t a credit to his supposed financial genius, index funds are very conservative.

I’m okay with being at war with any country that crosses their neighbors borders and starts attacking them. Russia is on that list, as is America since they attacked Venezuela.

If this wasn’t real life, we would be talking about how painfully on the nose this person’s name was.

Also hurt the wrong people - rich people.

I’ve installed games from both Epic and GOG on my steam deck via Lutris, and after it’s installed, it just takes a few clicks to have it visible in non-desktop mode. A little tedious sure, but not terrible.

It requires more material and financial resources, but isn’t necessarily harder. Transmitting energy effectively to reduce heat, or managing the excess heat starts running into some pretty tough limits of physics. Most of the issues with spinning habitats are engineering problems within the capabilities of our current technology level and materials science. It’s just super expensive and has terrible ROI for now.

How is it a bad analogy? You seem to be treating it like a scale model, which i don’t think was the intention. Moreover, most of the effects map over fine.

There isn’t a requirement for a Dyson shell to transmit energy. You could just envelope the sun in habitats that use the energy they collect locally and that would meet the criteria of a Dyson shell (and a K2 civilization).

It needs to weigh enough that it counters the momentum/drag of the cable plus the net of whatever mass is going up. Keep in mind that cars going down add to that overall value while cars going up subtract. Also, the general opinion is for the station/anchor to be slightly above geosync so the net effect of the orbit on the station is to be pulling away from the earth (there is some wiggle room depending on how robust your earth anchor is and the mechanics of your tether with respect to tension vs. compression, but most models plan for a little net lift). In other words, you also attach to an anchor on the earth (which could just be a chunk of bedrock) to counteract that net force. Since the net force of the tether (not counting the earth tether) would be away from earth, any net loss of momentum would be regained from the earth’s spin (which happens whenever we launch a rocket right now). You could also have a spool at either end to maintain the desired tension on the tether while accounting for slight elevation changes due to net momentum loss or gain. On top of all that, the space anchor mass isn’t really dependent on the mass of the earth so much as it is on the net amount of mass being lifted or lowered to the earth and the amount of time you want to wait to return to it’s desired orbital altitude. And finally, if the tether was severed only the part whose center of gravity was below geostationary orbit would actually fall to earth - the rest would leave orbit.

I’m pretty sure the article iIread said it had more than enough speed to reach escape velocity, but would have ablated/vaporized before doing so.

The answer is yes, depending on your frame of reference.

And here I am wondering how that clamp mechanism works.

Edit: zoomed in and saw the screw. Nice! Now imagine having to say your gun stopped working because the rock fell out.

The phrase I heard was, when it comes down to it, free speech absolutists mostly want the freedom to say bigoted shit.

I’m pretty big on free speech, but if there aren’t limits, it gives a platform for terrible people to gather and reinforce each other, which only helps terrible people.

I support Steam on and with my deck for the great things they do for hardware and access. I support GOG for the DRM free software, which works quite well on the deck. I download free games from Epic, knowing their launcher is almost always off and hoping I cost them money.

It was the first commercial version, from the NT line that was user-friendly and capable enough for home users. Prior to that, it was difficult to get games to run on the NT line and permissions were more complicated than most home users wanted to deal with. After that, they were essentially the same product line.

Typical Microsoft. “Let the user decide when their computer wakes up? Nah, they let us decide what’s important or it stays asleep.”

I just came across your final decision from an hour ago, and its a pretty fair stance. Glad it’s staying up, can respect not wanting to curate what current events might just be historic.