good. the sooner they go, the better

yeah it was outright visible that the documentary was especially well-done because a potential IPO

i’m not a fan of musk at all; however this is in the technology community because it’s a good technological breakthrough.

geopolitical stability is partially caused by a balance in technology level. england could only rape china and india in the 17th century because china and india were backwards ass farmer’s countries back then. they industrialized and eventually kicked the english people out. which is why china is so focused on industrialization today. they know what’s coming to countries who don’t have the mechanics to fight back.

which is why we need tax money being spent on the communal level. not the federal level. it’s the fed gov that spends it on the military, it’s the municipality that spends it on schools.

does anybody have any numbers on how many taxes he actually pays? (with sources pls)

i’ve never actually heard anyone defend billionaires irl. i don’t really know who would do that.

i think lots of people are still stuck in the 20th century mindset “if i work hard, i can make it”. it just takes a while to wake up from a deep dream.

yeah personally i would be fine if it could access anything but my own personal files / the OS installation.

thanks, i didn’t know that! i’ll keep it in mind.

the simple solution would be to put every game into a sandbox by default

yeah who would have guessed that the nature of humans is universal and not changeable, and if you tell them that they shouldn’t feel the way they do, they’re gonna get angry at you instead of changing their ways.

No, i know mine wasn’t. I think future generations will have it better.

i mean that if you have an infinite space, the total useable energy does not converge to zero even though it does in every small region of that space. local convergence to zero does not imply global convergence to zero. if you took Analysis 1/2 in maths university, you know that.

ehh, “entropy always wins” is only valid in closed systems. the universe is not a closed system.

not if we export it to other planets first ;-)

except if it clones itself indefinitely … like siberian forest trees.

chances are high that when wikipedia shuts down, a trillion alternatives to it (which are just archived versions) are gonna pop up immediately.

What matters is the effective exhaust velocity. For chemical rockets it’s 3 km/s. The article doesn’t seem to mention it?

On top of that, ion drive travel is notoriously slow. So it’s not good for human travel because you would need more life support system for the longer journey, including more food and water, which makes the rocket heavier and is thus undesirable. It would only be useful for cargo transport where it doesn’t matter whether it spends 6 months or 3 years in space.

lifting a 100g schoko 1 meter per second, on Earth

in space no because there’s no gravity, so lifting things doesn’t take energy, only acceleration does. too lazy to calculate now, the relation is simple but i’m lazy.

the article gets wilder the further in i go.