Cocodapuf

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Or compare to the CO2 put out by global concrete construction. It's more than some might believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been having trouble with this too.

So far my best assessment is that the problem stems from the Chromecast not playing well with my router. Resetting the Wi-Fi on my router tends to fix the problem, but it's seriously annoying.

Separately, I also have issues with the play/pause not working when casting and some other weird interface behaviors sometimes. But all in all, it's worth complaining, but it still works better than everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Water from non-Earth sources might contain dissolved minerals at poisonous levels for agriculture, much less human consumption.

Oh yeah, it's practically guaranteed to contain nasty stuff! We're gonna drink it anyway though.

Most of that water on earth that we'd consider "not useful" would fall into the "100% useful" category if found in space. As long as the contaminants have a different boiling temperature from water, you can always boil the water into steam in order to separate it. Or you could also use electrolysis to separate out the hydrogen and oxygen and then recombine then in clean tanks.

These are expensive methods of purification, energy intensive, but solar panels really well with no atmosphere and 24/7 sun exposure, so this is all feasible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nice reference!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh man, I fell apart with that line...

One 1/4 family at a time

Seriously, I'm still chuckling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the hivemind can get pretty tiresome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you joking? Well the answer is no, no the SLS is about 40 years behind as far as technology goes. It's basically a shuttle derived launch vehicle, the boosters are similar to the shuttle side boosters and it uses 4 slightly updated RS-25s (the space shuttle main engines) in the center stage.

Except instead of getting with the times and attempting some reusability, it actually has less reusability than the shuttle had. They actually throw away all of those expensive high performance hydrolox engines on every launch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That's literally exactly what spaceX is developing, rockets you don't have to blow up every flight.

Fully reusable rockets have never been done before, but they're coming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I fully support this. Fuck Uber.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh ok, well that's a relief. I'm glad we had you and your crystal ball handy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha everyone keeps saying that! But it's pretty funny how wrong everyone is about where the mistake was.

The math is just fine, I did the simple addition correctly. It's the reading comprehension that I got wrong, I misunderstood what the sentence was saying.

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