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Comment Re: This is why (Score 1) 126

About 90% of it. In the sense of micronutrient and macronutrient content, it's virtually indistinguishable from lean meat. That includes its b complex and creatine, the kind of things that keep your brain healthy and energized, and are commonly deficient in vegans.

Honestly I don't understand you guys. Basically you're offended that people would eat more of the cow, making its usage more ecologically efficient, while at the same time griping about ecological efficiency of eating meat. As far as I can tell, you just don't like it because of its physical appearance before it ends up on the plate. Which is especially insane given the way you guys resort to highly processing your food just to make it nutritionally viable and somewhat palatable, where it often has a much worse appearance (and smells like dog shit) before reaching your plate than "pink slime" does. Not to mention the way you have to source ingredients from all over the world just to somewhat meet your micro needs, which is ecologically inefficient, and still doesn't even give you what's already available locally from animal products.

At the very least, pick a fucking argument that makes fucking sense. And no, you're not going to convince me to eat nutritionally deficient vegan crap food that's so heavily salted and/or sugary just because it has to hide the fact that it doesn't have any flavor. The worst among you are the ones who demand organic vegan. Remember the b complex and creatine I mentioned earlier? To get a full complement, you're either synthesizing it or you're getting it from animals. Period. Your body and your ideology obviously hate each other. Such a first world problem.

Comment Re: State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 2) 138

And Mel Brooks is 100. Age doesn't make them any less relevant, the problem is you're just a fucking prude. Guess what else was popular among the youth in their times? Temperance, fascism, and Maoism. Being an asshole knows no age minimum or maximum.

These guys, though old, age well. Prudish assholes like you do not. History will look favorably upon them, where you'll go down more like Kellogg or Graham.

Comment Re: Plague is a problem in Russia? (Score 2) 70

First, don't invke a "both sides" fallacy. It's stupid.
Second, is there any evidence anywhere that the US engages in any of these? Because it's already known that Russia does both, and in fact uses chemical weapons such as vx/novochik
Third, president Nixon issued an executive order mandating that no government entities engage in this in any way at all, and unlike your tsar's decrees, executive orders have no effect if they're not made pubic, so they can't be secretly cancelled, amended, or ignored. We have a system of checks and balances, you do not.

Comment Re: Plague is a problem in Russia? (Score 3, Insightful) 70

Probably worth mentioning at this time that Russia never stopped its bioweapons (and chemical weapons) research and development, which includes inducing antibiotics resistance into deadly microbes.

If this is what that is, you already know you can count on incompetent Russia to hit itself with its own weapon.

Comment Re:Well above the ocean [Re:Uh HUH] (Score 1) 84

Let me be perfectly clear about this: I am insulting you. I am calling you out as either being such a plonk that you keep old copies of People magazine around just in case ... or you are such a plonk that you google and select the answer you want.

Either way, you are a plonk. Your memory is reliable and truthful, mine is full of lies.

Comment Re: Universities teaching the 'truth' (Score 2) 34

You do realize why there isn't more money being poured into the search for a cure...

First of all, what do you mean by "a cure"? There are so many different ways that cancer varies that chasing after one cure to rule them all is just stupid. This is why the clinical definition of cancer is so narrow: A category of diseases involving cells that ignore normal signals and mechanisms to stop dividing or undergo apoptosis and can invade nearby tissue. Plenty of healthy tissues in your body do one of these but not another. So...how do you target them for a "cure"? The answer is and always will be: It depends.

Second of all, there's already a lot of money being put into cancer research. A great, great deal of it in fact.

Third of all, we already have cures for some forms of cancer. I myself had my cancer cured: I had basal cell carcinoma on the top of my ear lobe. Guess what the cure was? Pretty fucking easy: Pick up a scalpel, use the scalpel to excise the differentiated basal cells. Healthy basal cells will eventually take their place. There, cured.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 129

You and I both know that's not thermodynamically possible with known science.

So do the people saying it.

We have a real problem with Positive Projection where we are decent folks so we project that on people who are not. That is an error even though most people are decent folks. The parasites are not.

This is exactly what I'm talking about with my original comment: You so badly overestimate your own expertise on this topic that you literally claimed to know that this is "not thermodynamically possible with known science". The problem is, nobody with actual expertise on this topic, including the ones who are saying this won't work, aren't making this argument. The actual experts on this topic aren't making arguments based on physics, full stop, mainly because from a purely scientific and engineering perspective, the concept itself has already been proven. The concept is only not proven when you take cost into consideration. But you're not making an argument based on cost, you're trying to make an argument based on science, and you lost that argument before you even started. And worse, you still don't even know why you lost that argument.

Comment Re: If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 129

It's certainly doable, the question is and always has been a matter of cost. As somebody has already mentioned, there are currently several players investing millions into R&D on this. They wouldn't even be going that far if they had already concluded that this was impossible.

No matter who does it though, (Google, SpaceX, some smaller players) they're ultimately counting on Starship delivering what it promises. So far, Starship is doing that, just not on the original predicted time horizon.

Comment Re: If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 129

Also, electronics will have to stay inside the Van Alan belt, so it will be interesting how the issue of cosmic radiation flipping bits will be handled.

This is already a solved problem. Old space just makes very large components (which are impractical from a cost perspective, but don't tell the ESA that, because they're the last holdout still relying on it.) New space relies on shielding, redundancy and error correction. Either way, this isn't an issue.

Comment Re:Maybe difference is apparent with basic science (Score 1) 129

If it's that simple, then it should be pretty easy to show mathematic proof.

But don't bother, because you've already lost the argument: As with all things SpaceX that people claim are impossible until SpaceX actually pulls it off (and has over a dozen times now) they're talking about whether it's cost effective, not whether the physics works. No competent person is arguing that it can't physically work. SpaceX has done this so many times with so many things that you'd figure people would learn by now to make arguments based on cost effectiveness. Yet here you are, no mention of cost effectiveness anywhere.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 129

That has nothing to do with the topic, and everything to do with the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

And like most people who invoke it, you're misusing that term. Dunning-Kruger is meant for people who are actually experts in the field but overestimate their own competence in it. A perfect example of Dunning-Kruger is this guy:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FTazerface16

And here's why: He's an expert in aerospace engineering because that's what he studied and he's actually worked in. Yet he's fucking up on it big time by claiming that Starship will never make it to orbit, and his reasoning for that is sheer incompetence: His claim is (or at least was) that it's "too heavy" with no other qualifiers. Nothing about velocity, nothing about thrust, just "too heavy". Stupid. Particularly given it just recently went orbital. It was always a dumb argument, displaying incompetence, long before Starship made its first orbital flight. Sure hindsight is 20/20, but guess what? The argument never had sound footing to begin with, for exactly the reason I specified.

Obviously you are trying to sling FUD

FUD about what, exactly? What is it you believe I'm trying to create fear, uncertainty and doubt over? I've always been a "wait and see" kind of guy. I don't make broad, sweeping comments on this or any other topic that I'm not an expert at. This topic in particular, I've made conjectures, but never any predictions. Can this be done? Maybe. My limited knowledge on the topic says a few things:
- We already know they can do meaningful work in orbit -- this concept itself has already been proven.
- Heat needs to be dissipated at least as fast as it is being produced.

But overall, will this work? My hunch is probably, but there are a few important qualifiers:

- How powerful and energy efficient are these TPUs we're putting in orbit?
- How efficient can we make these radiators? Google had to put a small scale bird into orbit, but the bigger they are, the more efficiently they can dissipate heat
- Can the compute yield over the lifetime of the hardware exceed what it costs to put it into orbit?
- Will it be cost effective?

And this is only a small slice of the variables we're looking at.

But you know what? I don't see any of you adding any of these qualifiers. Instead you guys just make broad, sweeping, absolutist statements as if you already have all of the knowledge necessary and you've done all of the math, when you obviously haven't. Take this comment:

In the case at hand, data-centers in space make zero sense at our current stage of technology because of multiple, very bad parameters that we cannot work around.

If you actually believe that, then it should be easy to provide mathematical proof. So just do it already instead of running your mouth about shit that, at the end of the day, you really don't understand.

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