Born Hunter
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Does nitrogen from the space walking thrusters condense in the cold of space forming droplets? My first thought.
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It feels like everyone knows how dangerous it might be but no one knows how to regulate it. I think it's quite possibly impossible. I think it will give such a competitive advantage that states that do not completely embrace it will be outmanoeuvred or even just wiped out by states that do.
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I beg your pardon!
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Almost every industry conference in anything even remotely techy is at least 50% "AI" these days. It's actually a bit tiresome. It's as much a marketing term as a real value driver. That said it is and will change the world. The well known publicly available LLMs are quite common tools to make common workplace tasks easier and make you as a professional more productive/competitive. I think it's still up in the air whether AI replaces people or enhances them in this space... Software developers come to mind as being first at risk, but maybe their skillsets just change. If I were to pr
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Probably changed his mind now he's fallen out with his high intellect mate.
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Of course he is, I mean who isn't! LOL
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Name is meaningless to me I believe. He has a curious mind and is principled. I think everyone is responsible for their own actions, he shouldn't be held responsible for others refusing to vaccinate imo. I believe quite strongly in the US constitution and the views of the founding fathers and the first amendment is the foundation of democracy.
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I mean yeah the boys well down the rabbit hole on a lot of stuff! But faking the moon landings was a stretch even for him. Tbf I actually quite like him. Far more than Trump anyway.
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RFK is probably the face of those brave souls who refused to roll the sleeves up and even he believes in the moon landings doesn't he?
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I assume it's frowned upon to set them inside a a jam jar filled with Vihtavuori N160?
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I'm literally in the process of buying some now Trying to layer deterrents, enhance security and introduce better discipline with basic security best practice.
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Okay, on the subject of burglary/theft. In this area there has been a rise in burglaries recently. When I get five minutes I want to look at the stats more closely. Over the last month hiluxs have been getting nicked almost twice weekly. On the local police FB pages last week alone they had several gangs in the nearby towns apprehended by police dogs at the scene of burglaries. At least one incident both burglars were armed with knives. CSI came over yesterday, found nothing and said it had all the hallmarks of professional opportunists. Noteworthy though was that the PCs on the scene and
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You’ll also notice there are no visible stars in the image, because again the camera or image settings have been optimised to resolve the earth, the stars are then effectively drowned out.
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Pure speculation but knowing the earth is much much brighter than the moon either the camera settings or post processing of the image has reduced the overall image brightness to stop the earth whiting out. Consequently the moon now looks dull. Like when you photograph a close by object with the sun in the background.
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Google Reaction Engine SABRE prototype. They got funding from HMG as well as a load of private aero/defence players for their hybrid air breathing rocket engine design. Some of the developments from that are going into the tempest program I believe. But yeah scramjet would require a regular jet to get to operating speeds for the scram jet to work and then an actual rocket to operate in space. Essentially non viable hence the work on hybrid engines that can do it all.
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Just interesting areas of R&D to watch in aero mate that’s all. The Chinese might develop teleportation and completely ruin everything!
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I think these planes would burn a lot of fuel on the way up but then they save it by effectively ‘freewheeling’ at 15k+ mph 400 kms above the earth. Unlike a jet which trudges through thick air at 10 kms altitude the entire way. They may need to break the sound barrier on the way up but at least it’s a short period of such before leaving the atmosphere and being in a boom less environment for the majority of the flight.
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It may be that the first space plane products do require special airports but I’m not really aware of any. The concept being they take off and land like any other plane except they achieve very efficient long haul flight by escaping the drag of the atmosphere.
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Remain below the sound barrier at all times. Once the planes at 400 km altitude there is no atmosphere and no potential for a sonic boom. That said I’m not totally sure if they could remain below the sound barrier while in the atmosphere or if they would need to break it.
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The concept is that they would operate from all airports yes. And they would overcome problems like sonic booms because they’d never generate one. But it requires a very advanced engine.
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I imagine charts will know. I think there may be advances from hypersonic research that cross pollinate but it won’t lead to hypersonic commercial flights, just cheaper subsonic ones. Space planes though will be game changing. Though reaction engines have already gone bust trying to develop one. Another potential big push will be in carbon neutral commercial air travel. Potentially e-planes or some other alternative engine solution.
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I think space planes will be the next ‘concord’. Once they figure out the engine tech to transition between atmospheric and exoatmospheric flight it really opens up huge potential. London to Sydney in an hour… But also there’s a lot of research going into hypersonics now which will potentially advance air travel too.
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My spaniels sounding off are probably as much a deterrent as anything. I was thinking more of something that would act as a last line of defence for my family in my absence. Something to chew f**k out of any intruder while they get to safety. Something I’m going to have to think on but several people now have said it’s the wrong way to go.
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I’ve got access to hundreds of acres of private farmland and forestry on the local estate/shoot I’m involved with. And all my other dogs walk out the house and down the street at heel off lead. Sounds like everything would fit if I go down this path. In your opinion what is the right breed for me? I guess a Dutch herder is too close to a Mali? Is there such thing as non trialing ones but still tested? GSD? Sounds like you’re a big fan of bandogs?
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I haven’t mentioned this but short of leaving the country that will be hard. I live in a very nice rural community that in the past 12 months is beginning to be f***ing destroyed. And that’s now the same story the country over. Its the sort of community where I can keep myself private but still everyone knows me. In the past 12 months though there’s been quite a bit of change.
