Carbon fiber filament might not have been a good idea either. What you're really looking for is a higher melting point. 3d printed carbon fiber is typically just a blend of nylon and small bits of fiber made of carbon. That is not the same as material made from long threads of bonded fibers. You're looking at a melting point of around 600f, tops, and it will probably begin warping at even lower temperatures. It might do in a pinch if you use thick walls, but unless you're stuck in the Andes mountains with a mostly intact plane and a 3d printer, and that's you're only hope of making it out alive, this is a really bad idea.

No matter what material you use, consider that plastic extruders typically don't exceed 800f, so think about what that means for whatever material you're forming with it. Sure, I've seen carbon fiber filaments with downright impressive tensile and compressive strength, but that doesn't work if it melts.

You're the one selling your own country's gold reserves, Putler. Talk about making incredibly stupid decisions to get yourself stuck in an incredibly stupid position.

Your country has been stuck on stupid throughout its entire history, and it shows. Just when we start to think you guys had finally gotten off the bottle, you go and do something stupid like invade Ukraine. Even after your Special Needs Military Operation falls apart, and you mysteriously fall out of a window during a drunken stupor, whoever comes after you is going to do more stupid things. That's just what you (gay) clowns are.

Without a doubt. Forget that he's even a cosmonaut: Nobody is going to be able to get anywhere near any of that equipment without it having been repeatedly made clear to them that they aren't to take any pictures. Full stop. He HAD to have known better. Occasionally you hear of people who think they can just do it anyway. Usually there's no ill intent, but there will still be some sort of consequence regardless, whether big or small (i.e. getting booted from the facility.) You'll end up on the wrong side of the law for sure if you e.g. take a picture your phone automatically uploads it to a cloud service without zero knowledge encryption, which is the default behavior of every smartphone currently made, and has been for years. Same with some professional cameras. So basically every entity in the defense industry is going to have a policy of no photography from a personal device, even forbidding their own employees from doing it. The only exception is if it's being done with some kind of device that has already been approved for that purpose.

Occasionally there are some items on display to the public after it has already been determined that it's not an export concern, or at the very least, no risk of anybody being able to do much of anything with it. For example, at the California science center, there are all kinds of rocketry items (including space shuttle engines) that comrade cosmonaut would have been allowed to take pictures of. There are other situations as well -- when I was in the Army, we were forbidden from taking any pictures while inside an M1 Abrams or an M2/M3 BFV, though the Army occasionally does controlled releases, e.g: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... I also recall a few events we had where the public were allowed to come inside of an M1.

I didn't say it does.

Well, Putler, which LLM do you suppose wrote that back in 2017?

Probably. This is why encrypted messaging is banned:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fr...

That's what indexing and string interning is for. You know, hashmaps and stuff.

That's nice and all, but where are the returns? If they don't start coming soon, the whole thing is going to run out of gas.

Pets.com was doing really well, lots of advertising too, until it became clear that nobody was buying anything from it. Building it doesn't necessarily mean they'll come, but the advertising industry made bank. Lots of economic activity around the gold rush too, problem is there wasn't any gold.

Construction companies and hardware vendors are doing well, but after a while people stop buying pickaxes and shovels. On the other hand, there might be a strong demand for torches and pitch forks after it's all over, problem with that is rsilvergun has no money, only a big mouth to better eat with.

What's the topic again? Something like..."Is it worth the cost?" Do you see yet the difference between where this is, and where you're trying to take it? (And you can't even keep that consistent...)

It's "Ukraine" not "the Ukraine"
This arrangement has been in place since the 90s.
It isn't top secret, or otherwise classified, or even sensitive. It's ITAR.

Now run along back to your igloo little wildling, the adults are talking.

Rockets that are capable of delivering a nuclear weapon into orbit, and their components, are legally defined as export controlled munitions. Taking pictures of export controlled munitions on a personal device is almost certainly going to get you into some pretty deep shit, even if you have no intention of exporting. Federal law, see ITAR.

Nobody asked for your life story.

If I mention the Philips curve, that doesn't mean I'm name-dropping Bill Philips. Many (most?) economic concepts have a name tied to them, and when you talk about them, nobody assumes you're talking about the person behind them. Besides, when I referenced the capital B, there was literally only one relevant name in that page you gawked at, not two, and that was only to get you to actually read the material rather than just do a control-f. Why you're doing this here, I have no idea, but it doesn't even matter.

And what would you say if they used it to install a hot tub for the staff? That's basically what's happening at a lot of these institutions. Besides, this still isn't relevant to Baumol, which is the whole reason you even went down this rabbit hole.

I specifically excluded politics in my first post. The only relevance it has is in whether the government should be putting tighter limits on student loans. That's it. You know another reason I say that? A few weeks back I was dating a woman who graduated from Cal Tech, and she was telling me about how some of her classmates were spending student loan money on completely ridiculous stuff, like using it to buy a brand new car in one case. If somebody does something THAT stupid with their loans, there is zero reason for the taxpayers to bail them out. Full stop. It would likewise make a lot of sense to reduce the loan amounts to encourage borrowers to choose less expensive schools.

Unless you're sitting here trying to argue that Baumol explains all, or even a slight majority, of why modern students are spending a lot more on their education than their parents did, then this is a totally moot point. Not only are you fixated purely on the tuition cost which is only one of four reasons I alluded to in my post, but you're also assuming that all the money is being spent wisely, which goes back to the original question I posed: Is it worth the cost?

But continue grasping at straws.

You're assuming that it cannot be and has not been tampered with or that GPS spoofing has not been employed (neither of which are really even necessary.) You're also assuming that there must be a constant GPS fix. These are really bad assumptions to make, especially in a place as unpredictable as a warzone. Even if what you claim is true (it's not) you're also asking Ukraine to rule out the use of its own Starlink aviation systems, which probably isn't a good idea.

Where do they state that they need it for that? And even then, I suspect that's for a residential (fixed) terminal, where GPS is also an administrative requirement rather than a strictly technical one. Besides, if it always depended on that to locate the bird, there's no way in hell that starlink mobility terminals could work reliably. A GPS fix isn't continuous, the first fix needing upwards of minutes depending on the last almanac update, with subsequent fixes taking several seconds at a minimum. GPS is not A-GPS. This is not street navigation with your cell phone. So long as you have the current time, GPS also isn't strictly necessary to establish an initial link. It'll take perhaps a bit longer, but it can still be done without a precise location.

If you've ever aimed a Ku band dish at a geostationary satellite, you'd know that being off even by a millimeter on either azimuth or elevation can really fuck your signal. So how do you believe viasat has been doing exactly this with phased array antennas on airliners for the last 15 or so years? It still works fine in turbulence even. Phased steered antennas update their direction in time scales of nanoseconds without needing to rely on external sensors. By the time you wait for GPS to get a new fix any time there's a light bump, you've already lost your link.

Besides, Starlink is designed to provide high bandwidth, low latency service. It's not designed to tell the military where the bad guy is. And when you say this:

What do you think this is? Command and conquer with starlink terminals? Cheese...

And so tell me, what gives you the idea that a method of getting your own fix, from the ground, will surely work from space?

It's hilarious that you think you have the slightest idea how this works, and to "prove" it, you're throwing words at me that you don't even understand. Meanwhile, you have no idea why what the piece you linked has no relevance to your original post.

Did you even read that? Because if you did, you certainly didn't comprehend what it's saying. They're talking about being able to get a fix on your own location on earth by looking for signals in space, not the other way around.

You're also somehow oblivious to the fact that the dish is always actively aiming its antenna to track the satellite. And somehow you're expecting adjacent satellites to get a good enough signal to do anything at all with, especially when the adjacent satellites aren't even making the same Doppler adjustments.

Think.