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Falcon heavy could do 120+, as high as 140 but I left some room there for whatever will have to hold those satellites and deploy them. The ITS Booster (First stage mars launcher) could do 750+ per launch, which makes this sound almost reasonable. It'll be pretty fucking cool to be able to go...

Apparently this article was completely misleading, dark energy still exists and we're still in an expanding universe. This does a really good job of explaining why the results don't really change anything that we know.

I see the positive in that you might make sewage treatment less costly which would encourage building more of them. A disturbing amount of raw sewage is dumped into rivers and oceans, even by first world countries.

A group has developed a way of making refinable crude oil directly from wet sewage. They've licensed the tech and they're planning to build a test plant in vancouver. Curiously they don't mention farm manure. Fuel from sewage is the future—and it's closer than you think

You're again confusing a lack of good tools and coordinated research with me saying these are simple problems. I don't know how else to explain this to you, it just seems like you some sort of mental block. Yes these are hard problems, yes it's difficult to identify them but that difficulty is...

Then what the fuck was your point? Some of them are going to be hard and take longer, others are easy targets. You can pick the ones you choose to research and prioritize based on the technology at hand and what will have the biggest impact. If this was organized the progress would be faster in...

That's a really stupid response, we develop tools to make tasks easier so we can accomplish more. Why would antibodies be any fucking different? If we followed your logic we'd have no progress at all because it was "difficult". @iannis thanks for the response, yea I could of worded it better...

I did a rather shit job of explaining why I thought cures were easy in the politics thread, here is my second shot at it. Vaccine's have dated back as far as the 10th century China and first recorded in western medicine in the mid-to late 1700's. We've known that unique markers (antibodies) are...

They successfully tested an autonomous truck last week, and they hope to have a commercial fully autonomous truck available by 2018. I'd be feeling really anxious if I was truck driver right now. Otto Moving with ‘Urgency’ to Introduce Autonomous Truck Tech | Trucks.com And Elon says that...

I contrasted long term alcoholism with long term heroin addiction, provided you have a clean free supply of heroin you're doing significantly less damage to your body than you are with alcohol. It's not even controversial and it's an example that lots of medical doctors use as prohibition...

I heard Jidenna on the rap caviar playlist on spotify, huge fan now. Can't wait till this guy releases a full album his whole style/sound is awesome.

So the universes expansion rate was calculated using about 70 type 1a super novas all over the observable universe which gave a sigma 5. (higher sigmas mean they're more likely to be real, the higgs boson was sigma 7 as an example) . Well they analysed 10x as many super nova in a recent study...

A group of scientists has always been bothered by the viking lander results testing positive for life in one experiment for metabolism but failed another to detect organic compounds. So they spent years analysing all the possible explanations and came to the conclusion that life is the most...

Not much really, just kind of shifts the accounting around and places us at a different point in galactic evolution. Presuming that empty space does produce some kind of static vacuum pressure that we describe as dark energy, having more matter in the equation just pushes the eventual demise a...

It's even a sign that their authority is being systematically eroded as more and more people become educated about drugs. People are asking them tougher and tougher questions and they can't answer them, hell they couldn't even admit that pot was safer than heroin! They're going to have to adapt...

Wow episode seven was like boon dock saints and chapelle had a baby that shit out a brilliant defense of free speech. Hilarious too.

From my perspective whoever did the hack did everyone a service. Though if if it was Putin he must be loving the irony of rampant political corruption in a country that lectures him on democracy. Hopefully the RNC gets leaked as well and the whole thing is laid bare. With enough pissed off...

Doesn't the US regularly fuck with Russian elections anyways? This is kind of par for the course.

Starshot plans on sending small probes to other systems in the near future provided they get all their funding together. I'm pretty sure they'll get their little probes up to 20% of the speed of light using a high powered laser and a light sail which makes for roughly a 20 year journey to Alpha...

Depending on what went wrong this could delay them for months :/ Plus it might undermine them flying humans to the ISS in the next couple years. Hopefully it was something really stupid and nothing wrong with the rocket itself.

After playing around with F1 fan cars in GT5 I can't fucking wait for this. I'm not super big into motor sports but watching some extremely high speed racing with crazy aerodynamic cars would be really exciting. Plus you never have to feel guilty about taking pleasure into an extremely...

Hah I feel like I should get this, I haven't really done any rendering work :( Or this is a straight up math reference that's over my head hah I love the concept of it on the surface, but there is just so much stuff we can't explain that going down the simulation route almost seems like the...

When people bring up the topic of us living in a simulation it always makes me think about quantum mechanics. Using probabilities and never having to determine a position until it was necessary are great ways from a computer science perspective to save on computing resources. I doubt that we...

Great video on Dyson Spheres (Swarms?) and how we could achieve type II/III status in a relatively short period of time (50-100 years?) if we wanted to. We could build a partial Dyson Swarm using Mercury as materials then use the energy from the swarm to make tiny black holes we could use for...

Cool quoting works from other threads~ From the political thread I don't think I am, mainly because the most expensive part of transportation is the human element. If you can eliminate humans AND keep your vehicles running 24/7 because they no longer have a driver who needs rest, well you're...

Well the shifty part is they charge 2-3x the blue book cost then 19-29% interest to people who can't really afford the vehicle. Then put clauses in to be able to take the car back for just one missed payment, couple that with keeping the down payment money..

I wouldn't say the limiting factor to getting a level 4 will be price but simply a matter of production limitations. Uber and Lyft have been very clear in their desire to buy every autonomous car that's produced and I wouldn't be surprised if they're partnered with Ford. Those cars are going to...

I couldn't find the article but there is another version that uses blade legs to get around that can get up to a decent speed and deal with most terrain.

Hah they already have robot cowboys that will herd cattle and keep them moving between grazing areas. It's still the early stages but they appear to work well enough! Meet SwagBot, the Robot Cowboy that Can Herd and Monitor Cattle on Its Own - Modern Farmer

I know nothing about LIDAR or really imaging hardware in general, but wouldn't multiple units in close proximity cause interference? Or can they actually tell whether or not the reflection they're registering is from their laser.

I've read that they plan to make the autonomous trucks go city to city on their own, but they would park themselves at depots where regular drivers would take over for the city movement. Whoever ends up owning the robots that do the work, are going to be the only people who end up rich when...

Ahh you're talking about level 5, okay that makes sense now. Yea I agree that's a long way off, I just think most people would be ecstatic with level 4. If it can get me from A->B within a city and between major cities on it's own I'd be lining up to buy one.

This is an awesome idea actually, I could see high end retailers having a store vehicle they can send around to pick up clients. Ford is saying 2021 is the year they'll have fully autonomous cars available for sale, am I missing something when you keep saying it'll be far in the future? Ford...

Long term I wouldn't be surprised if some of these ride hailing services just become free. Watch a 30s advertisement every 10 minutes or something of driving and they can earn the cash back for the ride. It's not really feasible with gas powered vehicles, maintenance costs are simply too high...

I fucking haaaaaaaate traveling long distances via car but I love to travel, It's exactly why I want one as well. My only concern with autonomous vehicles is that they will dramatically increase the amount of travel people are willing to do and in doing so increase pollution. Any time movement...

I'll probably never use this, so I might as well throw it there if somebody finds it interesting. The idea would be to create a inventory management system combined with a Point of Sales that lives in the cloud. The system would provide a website for the business that could either be a read...

Couldn't be more wrong! Heroin is just a perfect example of a drug made significantly more dangerous via prohibition. I am in no way advocating it's use, I am just using it as an example of what kind of risks people think are acceptable contrasted with ones they aren't and how illogical their...

I specifically said that its better from a toxicology stand point to be addicted to heroin presuming it's a clean source than it is to alcohol. The majority of the damage that heroin causes is because of the tampering of the product and the inconsistent doses. The addiction rate for alcohol is...

Presuming you had a pure supply and safetely injected, heroin is a much safer drug than alcohol in terms of addiction. Alcoholism can damage a plethora of organs, and lead to a pretty brutal premature death. Pure heroin on the other hand causes no damage to organs and long term addiction shows...

If you use a tincture and rather than swallow it let it sit under your tongue it will fully absorb through the mucus membranes. I'm told it's very similar to smoking in terms of effects and duration (I've never tried, it sounds like a waste to me). If I had a choice between smoking and edibles...