Peter Hague
@peterrhague
Solutionist. Astrophysics PhD and scientific software engineer. Dad of 2. Let’s colonise the solar system together. Please visit the link below to read my blog:
This is a crude diagram (I will work on a better one) of a concept I'm looking at: a set of wires that can be used to provide a habitat in Sun Synchronous Orbit with control in all three axes. It would maintain its rotation by interacting with the Earth's magnetic field, and…
“Where is my jetpack? Where is my flying c…” “shut up! You can fit a million copies of the Library of Alexandria up your bum for the price of a meal!”
for the price of a decent meal you can now purchase a storage drive that has more capacity than existed in aggregate across the entire globe 50 years ago and can be strategically hidden in various bodily orifices if needed
Some actual good news!
BREAKING: The government has given the final go-ahead for a £38bn nuclear power plant in eastern England. 🔗 Read more trib.al/8uY1sQ1
This is just admitting that the word “oligarch” can be stretched to “someone who owns a chicken I covet” once these guys have got power.
They were at the time. Lord Haw Haw was regularly whining about the strategic bombing campaign in these terms, and Goebbels claimed that the annihilation of the German race was an allied war aim.
If WW2 was happening now the Allies would be getting accused of genocide.
The belief in false consciousness among the left is so strong - and so comforting to them - that they think all that needs to happen is all media to become their personal propaganda channel, and everyone will instantly fall into line.
The real Kardashev scale is how many shrimp we saved from torture along the way
What if the Kardashev scale isn’t about measuring how much energy we can burn but about how much unity we can build among ourselves to advance to the next level? History shows that all progress we’ve achieved as humankind has come from unity.
Impression I get from replies is that it is because it’s such an old engine, hand crafted the way grandpa used to make them.
Something I’ve wondered about the high cost of SLS. How come the RL-10 is still quite an expensive engine? It’s been in continuous production for half a century. But each unit is about the same price as an entire Electron launch. Is it simply the contract structure or can the…
Something I’ve wondered about the high cost of SLS. How come the RL-10 is still quite an expensive engine? It’s been in continuous production for half a century. But each unit is about the same price as an entire Electron launch. Is it simply the contract structure or can the…
I often use AI instead of search these days. Today I got Grok to find me the earliest showing of Superman within a 30 minute drive. It offered a 10am showing within 26 minutes drive, which turned out to be a 10:20 showing that was about 40 minutes away. When I pointed out the…