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Comment Re:And nobody is surpried (Score 1) 89

Give religious fanatics tons of money and you end up with crap like this. These people have no connection to reality and a massively oversized ego.

Here is what evangelical Christians came with in Garden Grove, CA:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christcathedralcal...

Comment Re:au contraire (Score 0) 79

The fact is, human beings cannot control their greed in the presence of surplus. So, it's just as bad to build things that are exceptionally good and stimulating that greed as it is to take advantage of them. Silicon Valley building stuff is a mistake that should be rectified. It is akin to allowing a toddler to play with a gun. All those who contribute to AI are just as guilty as such a person and are enemies of humanity.

Because you are so much better at knowing what people should be allowed to buy than any individual out there, O lord and master.

There's a cushy municipal government job waiting for you in New York City.

Comment Time to build high-temperature designs (Score 1) 50

Raising the operating temperature of reactors by using molten salt as a coolant would be a big advantage, even with the current overall design. It would permit dry air to be used as the heat sink. Reactors could be installed in desert and on military bases far from NIMBYs and their lawyers.

We have three years to get this started. When the Democrats come back we will be able to use modern healthcare tech again, but our clean energy options will shrink back to EU levels.

Comment Re: I'm rooting for it!! (Score 5, Insightful) 166

This isn't government funded.

And that's is exactly WHY Startship represents economy, not waste.

When the government attacked the problem of getting crews and cargo into orbit, it developed Space Shuttle, which required a standing army of 35,000 people just to keep it running. It never achieved its reusability and reliability goals. SpaceX came into the picture with Falcon-9, whose reusable first stage cut the cost of getting to orbit by 90%, and achieved 100% reliability. Starship is on the way to reusability of both stages and fast turnaround at much greater payloads. And no, these efforts are not being "subsidized by NASA." SpaceX gets the job done so much cheaper that NASA contracts the company for most of its flights, as does an increasing base of purely commercial business operators.

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