imagine if snapchat announced that they would start living and dying on their core business rather than try to expand
now you have a bunch of investors who are upset that they invested in a company at a 16 billion dollar valuation that has jack diddly squat for income and has no promise of some magical "over the horizon" way to monetize
I honestly think a space race to Mars is a huge waste of time and effort. Literally the only reason to establish a colony on Mars right now is research, and that can be performed cheaper by robots.
I think the Moon would be a much better prospect. Lunar regolith can be refined into silicon, oxygen, iron, alumnium, and other metals. With hydrogen and a few other key metals imported from Earth, the Moon could become the center of space manufacturing for satellites, spacecraft, and other products that require an ultra-clean environment during manufacturing.
If a space war means putting mass into LEO/GEO is much more expensive because of armoring, mining the moon for resources becomes that much more appealing - especially considering it costs 1/20th the fuel to put an object in LEO from the Moon than from the Earth.
>"a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed"
offtopic, but a unit type would have prevented that. i had no idea how many errors i was making in my math programs before i started using F#'s type checker to make sure all the types lined up properly.
it wont, but the vast majority of errors with math formulas are along the lines of adding velocities with positions, raising something to the wrong power, using a multiply instead of an add, putting a parenthesis in the wrong spot, performing equations in the wrong order, etc.
all of those can get caught with type checking, but it isn't perfect
> This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place!
Rule 1: Don't confuse intelligence with experience.
Technological and critical thinking skills can be learned by everyone given enough time and effort. A lot of people dismiss any possibility of becoming technically minded by saying "only smart people can do that", even though they have the potential to gain the same skills.
in the article it says they don't want to submit to testing
> None of which gets round the core issue: if EHS is real, I asked Diane, then why has it not shown up in formal experiments? “I encourage scientists to go to where we are and measure the environment,” she replied. “Don’t try to pretend that you’re God and expose us to different frequencies in a lab. That’s like taking someone and breaking their legs and asking how much it hurts.”
Ah, I remember one documentary/subject in the news on the TV and technicians came to measure things then they found out the cell tower was not connected yet. Not connected as in not even powered on and no electricity running through its systems.
Of course it's just one data point and it doesn't prove people aren't suffering.
Well breaking someones legs with a tire iron is an efficient way of proving they are vulnerable to them.. nonetheless, I dont see how getting your legs broken is similar to a headache and a few rashes
Their should be a signal intensity level high enough to be distinguishable from nothing but still low enough to cause slight annoyance rather than traumatic agony over a short period.
One of the people in the story claims the florescent bulbs at the Dollar Store triggered her condition. If that's the case, it should be REALLY easy to verify some of these claims in a laboratory setting.
Heachaches caused by fluorescent lights are an entirely separate issue, considering they produce flickery light at odd color temperatures with weird peaks across the spectrum. Never mind that lots of establishments have things way too bright, and probably failing sockets causing extra fluctuations as well. I don't think it's disputed that anyone can see visible light.
I'll add to your comment that light sensitivity in general is a known issue with many people (eg autistics). They actually feel pain from seeing lights that are too bright including lots of sunlight or artificial light. So, one or more of these people might have this condition.
Well, programmers historically have tended to stereotypically prefer a dimmer milieu. Not to mention there are a number of simple physical injuries that can cause photophobia: <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophobia#Causes >
Overillumination has been known for some time to cause various other deleterious health effects anyway, and flicker aside fluorescents just put out plain terrible light. It completely baffles me why so many establishments install it (well, workplaces; retailers like it because it makes you buy more apparently).
Of course we didn't touch that post. By the way, whenever you see "[deleted]" it means the submitter deleted it, or (in rare cases) asked us to do so after the editing window had expired.
Edit: I checked the logs just to make sure this wasn't some weird exception. It was definitely deleted by the author.
I'm going to detach this subthread and mark it off-topic now.
I deleted the post myself. The owner of the company threatened to make a fool out of me if I went public on it, I can't take the stress of it. I'd rather make something of myself and let karma do its' thing.
I have read the article. Nowhere does it claim that the reason for this is that FM is simply "old". They believe that DAB is better for particular reasons - choice, they want to reclaim the bandwidth etc. You disagree with that, but it has nothing to do with simply the age of FM.
Nobody has argued that the reason they want to replace FM is that it is old. So why challenge that argument?
>Scientists have never been allowed to examine the E-Cat, details of the supposed physics have never been revealed, and even the identities of his US business partners were only discovered by online sleuthing.
for fucks sake, why even publish such a bogus article
Because it's not all about the E-Cat. "Parkhomov has openly revealed his reactor design, ingredients used and experimental process, which is not terribly complex, and this allows for further experimentation to take place in the public domain, not under a cloak of secrecy"
I'm still a skeptic until plenty other people replicate it, but it's nice to see that some cold fusion researchers are acting like scientists now.
On the face of it, it does sound really bad, yes. However, the E-Cat is a longstanding project and whatever the nature of the process behind the anomolous results, it is gaining an increased amount of attention from groups working around the world, including NASA. If the independent replication attempt is the real deal any group of scientists will be able to investigate and verify it now, because the details are provided out in the open.
And the implications are enormous. If the process is real and robust it will mark the start of a new era in energy generation. It's a total game changer.
I have been following the E-Cat for a while and it has all the hallmarks of a scam, an incredibly elaborate scam if it proves the case. But it also could be a real revolution in the making. I think that makes it worth reporting on. Especially if this replication turns out to be valid.
when talking about space travel, speeds and distances aren't relevant the same way they are planetside. in space travel, it's all about who's gravity well you're stuck in, and how much delta V itll take to transfer to a different gravity well.
if we're talking about probes, the delta V aspect becomes a lot more fun when you consider the web of gravity slingshots that can be pulled off to up your dV
now you have a bunch of investors who are upset that they invested in a company at a 16 billion dollar valuation that has jack diddly squat for income and has no promise of some magical "over the horizon" way to monetize