lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

A wholly reductionist comment that misstates my opinions. Believe it or not I think there’s an optimal space between the environmental conservatism I’m espousing and charging forward into an unregulated and environmentally destructive bliss that doesn’t result in being opposed to any form of new development ever.

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

Yes, because the "charge forward and worry about the consequences later" mantra has proven so historically successful over the past 100 years when it comes to environmental stewardship. CFC's, HFC's, PFAS, leaded fuel, and abundant plastic waste are proof we definitely know what we're doing when it comes to ensuring we don't pollute our planet or ourselves, right? The science on this remains novel precisely because the idea of launching hundreds of rockets a day was inconceivable even 10 years ago.

You want more specifics, I take it?

* It's been well known for decades that high-altitude supersonic flight damages the ozone layer significantly faster than conventional aircraft. New Scientist, 1997 [1]

* More recently, concerning reentries of spacecraft: Atmospheric impacts of the space industry require oversight, Nature, 2022 [2]

Our upper atmosphere is fragile and contains the bulk of the ozone layer that protects us all from skin cancer and being bathed in brutal ultraviolet radiation. You willing to risk it because "space is cool"?

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15320692-500-science-...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01001-5

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

Aircraft use hydrocarbons which require similarly intensive chemical processes to create the fuels from the same constituent ingredients as the Sabatier reaction.

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

I agree space is cool. But why do you think the "space is cool" mantra is more important than ensuring that for the 8 billion humans that call this planet home—we have somewhere sustainable and safe to live?

Your asteroid mining for profit is arguably meaningless if we have no ozone layer.

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

Why isn't SpaceX doing that then? Why isn't any airline doing that then? Oh look, it's cheaper to use refined natural gas from a well. That's why. In the absence of either properly priced externalities, the market will always choose the cheapest option—Sabatier-generated Methane is not remotely comparable in price to fossil nat gas.

Mentioning theoretical solutions doesn't help if they will never be used practically.

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

Tell me why I shouldn't be concerned about thousands of starships launching from Earth and emitting multiple megatons of Carbon Dioxide in the fragile upper atmosphere? Some studies indicate emissions here are significantly more impactful, and can also damage the Ozone layer as well.

Any answers shouldn't consist of "well it's a fraction of what the aviation industry emits" because _the entire point_ of Starship is to scale-up to aviation-like operations.

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

Hi there. Where did you purchase those from?

lukealization

2 anni fadiscuss

And botulinum toxin only needs to exist in microscopic quantities to cause injury and death—would you eat a jar contaminated with it?

lukealization

3 anni fadiscuss

Satellites are significantly more metal-rich than meteors—also it's clear with Starship and multiple large (10,000+) satellite constellations that the total deorbited mass annually is only going to grow.

lukealization

8 anni fadiscuss

You sound exactly like the type who would defend ULA and other rocketry incumbents when SpaceX was a tiny startup.

Why are we so intent on dismissing the little players here?

lukealization

8 anni fadiscuss

The OP nor the study made no indication that the two were related — merely that they correlate.

lukealization

8 anni fadiscuss

> Apps can host code.

You say that like it's a good thing.

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

Possibly inadvisable, but you can disable SIP in High Sierra by using `csrutil` from the recovery OS (kind of moot, admittedly, as you'll need to be in recovery to trash the files that the author has mentioned, but you can at least make this setting permanent if you're willing to live with SIP disabled).

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

> And with Clover bootloader, it's even easier than it's ever been

And it's about to start getting far more difficult too. In my opinion, we've reached "peak hackintosh". Now with additional features which run on ARM chips and custom hardware complementing macOS more and more, it's going to become increasingly untenable to replicate the full experience going forward.

TouchID & TouchBar with BridgeOS on the MacBooks was the first step. Hey Siri on the iMac Pro is the next rung up. How long until we see FaceID on the Mac, or much further down the road, macOS running on ARM?

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

There's two JS libraries using the term "ristretto", we've all heard of mocha. "espresso" seems to be a disused node.js tooling library, similarly, "flat white" is a disused CMS, "latte" is a failed CoffeeScript competitor. "Americano" seems to be a slightly more used tooling repository.

I guess the less than inspiring names "short black" and "long black" are available? :)

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

Is there a possibility this could fall afoul of antitrust laws or be deemed monopolistic behaviour? What are the legal considerations here?

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

> If another company rolled a 200kwh car out of the back of a truck ...

That's the thing. They didn't. The roadster concept didn't have 200kWh in it at all.

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

Presumably you live either up Kapiti Coast or Upper Hutt/Wairarapa? The latter has tables which make things much easier.

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

Agreed. This plus a number of plugins disappearing in FF57 with the new WebExtensions have forced me to switch to Safari.

On the plus side now, I get my tabs across all my devices.

lukealization

9 anni fadiscuss

I'm in a similar position to yourself here. Would love to apply as I think working on something essentially similar to a space program would be incredible, but as someone who values days off and a work-life balance, I cannot commit to that level of employment.

It's a shame RocketLab have adopted such a SpaceX-esque policy of employment. Surely it must be possible to build a rocketry company where employees work only 40 hour weeks...

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