billhicksghost

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[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What absurd opening logic. The first person is a rocket engineer. He doesn't just play Kerbel Space, he designs rockets.

The schematics for Starship allows for at best 15-20 people. Supplies are a thing. The ability for humans to travel & survive for this distance is not established at all, nor is the ability to build structures, grow food, supply air & water, etc

Psychological effects: with a few hundred people, same as in any small society.

This confident nonsense is like discussing reality with an Iraq War Cheerleader Circa 2004-2007 .

There's no plan. To get to the Moon, Starship itself requires ~-15 refueling launches using a method that doesn't exist, despite the taxpayers giving the company 300+ million dollars to develop it.

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Built in correction is a good idea, but adding a feedback method that allows polite corrections and additional details is my thinking. Not everyone can spell and we all fail to communicate properly. My brain switches their/they're/there when writing, but notices the mistake when reviewing. The preview option here is great and is on my list. What was great about Reddit Is Fun is it remembered your unposted replies if you clicked away: free draft saving

I use Reddit to process my thoughts and build up my own lines of thought over time. My posts are heavily edited, because while it's an immediate experience, just post and forget, the content is not ("but you said a month ago..."). I don't care about Karma, I care that the writing is good. We're building and then repeating & refining our posts over time anyways. The posts are new each day, but the subjects, issues, etc are not and our thinking is both enhanced by writing and developed across each new comment over time as we reencounter those subjects ("When I first heard about it i thought _____, but now I think ___").

The reddit ecosystem and usage are counterproductive. I use it as a working journal, rough drafts with free editors, fact checkers, researchers (quality will vary, but search engine research is a click away).

What happens is conversations get derailed, by both ego and interruption. My goal is a more productive and positive user experience. Forget Karma, sometimes down votes are good. I've been thinking about and designing a user experience that uses the format better.

Example: Reddit comments vs private chat. Combine them, with individual discussions fixed, then others can comment on that discussion. I think when we post we should be able to pin replies we like at the top.

I can't go into too many such details (NDA required!).

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Opposition to sane transit is real and Musk admitted this.

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A rocket is just a truck. A fleet of trucks don't build or make possible whatever we dream them to carry.

A giant truck doesn't meet all demands. Starlink is just the Internet and does not count towards the existing, now saturated "market".

https://youtu.be/Om90htezXLk?si=cPV3vVKVIlkKB5T1

https://youtu.be/kM0gD4-zTT8?si=t1-QPOKuQ2CSzRw5

https://youtu.be/FNt_SyJjNGw?si=SnpUnW_CZK93ZBl1 (Parts 1 & 2, etc are also sanity.)

Neurolink was an existing company, it's founder quit in shame after they faked/stole existing research. His own professor, the leading expert in the field, declared it all bunk with the metaphor "Elon Musk couldn't find a brain of he tried".

https://youtu.be/p8NiM_p8n5A?si=bCtDVkLL546je8rV

Musk is a sociopath hijacking reality so real issues are ignored.

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

You understand Elon Musk better than most of Journalism.

"Why was commmunism so blind to it's flaws?" Have you paid attention to our society & capitalism lately?

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My goodness, the lack of major reaction to this McConnellism are part of why journalism has failed forever.

New Term: McConnellism

When a politician or political group undemocraticslly rejects their own ideas and policies in order to undermine their opponents; see RomneyCare/ObamaCare.

 

Reddit is broken. It's potential often derailed. I'm working on what's wrong and why with online raw reply and discussion places like reddit and Beehaw, with this very "Body" section, where the OP can expand their reason for posting & pinned to the top, one such correction.

Other issues include what I call "Clutter", like spelling, minor details & and grammar corrections, which should be temporary and separate, so we improve our writing without ego or disruption to the main experience. You want to keep the young from becoming online brats like we all succumb to? Make a better system.

So what's a good sub to start such discussions?

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This applies to all music. Sousa is Sousa, but Ragtime was once as radical as Hendrix.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eHGiXSLkrNg

Stravinsky's first performance of The Rites of Spring was so disruptive it inspired exaggerations that riots broke out immediately.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KzVDpdKgLS4

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the reminder. Alas, there's only two lines in that glorious piece, which I heard in grade school. But I was full of hormones when En Vogue came out, and we all know how much those drive everything, including memory.

Maggot Brain is George Clinton listening to a Grateful Dead album & then doing this: https://youtu.be/9jlQiHHMlkA?si=Q2eM7EOzr7z8JEUC

Skip to 2 minutes 30 seconds

[–] billhicksghost@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You might want to think about your broken logic here a bit.

 

This is a part of a Rocket Engineer's ongoing series of live reviews on various Space missions, mostly NASA

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