I'd go even further than that and argue that the reason vegan and vegetarian diets have taken off as much as they have is because they became status symbols in the 90s / 2000s.
Rockets have an exhaust with constant velocity, and they expel mass in the form of fuel. It's this expulsion of mass that generates the force that propels the rocket. Taking a force balance and assuming no external…
I think this is the big one. Consoles and CoD dominated the market for a long time. Has the pendulum swung back towards PC games? I have to confess, it's been a long time since I played anything. Games dev companies…
>50km a day in charge capacity is the absolute best-case scenario. In reality you should count on half of that. I'd count on even less than that. Industrial solar farms average a capacity factor of around 20-25%,…
Wouldn't it be easier to point a camera at the windshield and detect a change in opacity? I would think that's a far easier problem to solve than, say, facial recognition.
Wouldn't both of those solutions undermine the advantage of the airframe, which is the fuel cost savings of the larger engines? That said, I think seating pitch and spacing is definitely a conversation that needs to be…
> Also, if you have infinite energy, there are many things you can do to cool off. Everyone will be able to set their own preferred temperature. Jesus. Someone failed thermodynamics.
Ummm... if you have infinite power to pull carbon from the atmosphere, don't you also have infinite power to launch radioactive nuclear waste at the sun using mass-drivers? Sounds like that would be a lot more efficient…
Faster hardware will help, but I'm not convinced that it's the answer. OpenAI Five used on the order of 2000 years of experience to train their agent. There are clearly still huge algorithmic gains to be had. Given how…
I think this is the real answer. When we developed flight, the measure wasn't "can we fly like birds?" We still haven't achieved that even today, but we fly in otherwise unimagined, but equally powerful ways. We seem to…
For the majority of people, a car is a utility item; car buyers tend to price in the worst case scenario when buying a new vehicle. Statistical arguments don't really work in these cases, because even if an EV covers…
Maybe, though you probably still want to fly above the weather, which puts a lower bound on your power requirements. To get above the weather, the energy needed is mgh plus whatever kinetic energy your aircraft still…
Combined cycle gas turbines are actually higher efficiency than this. The current state-of-the-art is somewhere around 63% thermal efficiency.
The first paragraph is incorrect. The wing has to be built to withstand lift, which far exceeds the weight of the engines. The weight force of the engine typically counteracts the lifting force, which means -- if you're…
I'd go even further than that and argue that the reason vegan and vegetarian diets have taken off as much as they have is because they became status symbols in the 90s / 2000s.
Rockets have an exhaust with constant velocity, and they expel mass in the form of fuel. It's this expulsion of mass that generates the force that propels the rocket. Taking a force balance and assuming no external…
I think this is the big one. Consoles and CoD dominated the market for a long time. Has the pendulum swung back towards PC games? I have to confess, it's been a long time since I played anything. Games dev companies…
>50km a day in charge capacity is the absolute best-case scenario. In reality you should count on half of that. I'd count on even less than that. Industrial solar farms average a capacity factor of around 20-25%,…
Wouldn't it be easier to point a camera at the windshield and detect a change in opacity? I would think that's a far easier problem to solve than, say, facial recognition.
Wouldn't both of those solutions undermine the advantage of the airframe, which is the fuel cost savings of the larger engines? That said, I think seating pitch and spacing is definitely a conversation that needs to be…
> Also, if you have infinite energy, there are many things you can do to cool off. Everyone will be able to set their own preferred temperature. Jesus. Someone failed thermodynamics.
Ummm... if you have infinite power to pull carbon from the atmosphere, don't you also have infinite power to launch radioactive nuclear waste at the sun using mass-drivers? Sounds like that would be a lot more efficient…
Faster hardware will help, but I'm not convinced that it's the answer. OpenAI Five used on the order of 2000 years of experience to train their agent. There are clearly still huge algorithmic gains to be had. Given how…
I think this is the real answer. When we developed flight, the measure wasn't "can we fly like birds?" We still haven't achieved that even today, but we fly in otherwise unimagined, but equally powerful ways. We seem to…
For the majority of people, a car is a utility item; car buyers tend to price in the worst case scenario when buying a new vehicle. Statistical arguments don't really work in these cases, because even if an EV covers…
Maybe, though you probably still want to fly above the weather, which puts a lower bound on your power requirements. To get above the weather, the energy needed is mgh plus whatever kinetic energy your aircraft still…
Combined cycle gas turbines are actually higher efficiency than this. The current state-of-the-art is somewhere around 63% thermal efficiency.
The first paragraph is incorrect. The wing has to be built to withstand lift, which far exceeds the weight of the engines. The weight force of the engine typically counteracts the lifting force, which means -- if you're…