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  1. Comment on California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up in ~enviro

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    Where I live we might get snow one day a year, that sticks for maybe 12 hours, but I had not seen double sided panels before. Surely those don't make sense to install right? Is the amount of...

    Where I live we might get snow one day a year, that sticks for maybe 12 hours, but I had not seen double sided panels before. Surely those don't make sense to install right? Is the amount of reflected sunlight they capture really that beneficial? To me it seems like having an entire side that's not used for 6-8 months would outweigh the benefit of having it

  2. Comment on California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up in ~enviro

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    Thanks for the info. I guess it's less surprising that you're able to generate all your own electricity with such reasonable temperatures Where I'm at in TX, currently the temp is 89F, and during...

    Thanks for the info. I guess it's less surprising that you're able to generate all your own electricity with such reasonable temperatures

    Where I'm at in TX, currently the temp is 89F, and during the summer I fully expect it to be in the mid 90's to low 100's :(

    Still am interested in getting a solar system, because even if I could power my computer or 3D printer from something I captured from the sun, I think that would be super cool

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  3. Comment on California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up in ~enviro

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    Woah so are you really generating all your own electricity for most days? What's the average temperature there for you atm?

    Woah so are you really generating all your own electricity for most days? What's the average temperature there for you atm?

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  4. Comment on Rubbing your eyes is way more harmful than you think in ~health

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    This is exactly my take here. No definitive words, only passive weasel words so that his inflammatory statements cant be said to be incorrect

    This is exactly my take here. No definitive words, only passive weasel words so that his inflammatory statements cant be said to be incorrect

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  5. Comment on The lunacy of Artemis in ~space

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    I guess for me, I consider breakthrough to be something novel that hasn't been done before. This is more like a new technique in my eyes - something that's more of a modification to something else...

    I guess for me, I consider breakthrough to be something novel that hasn't been done before. This is more like a new technique in my eyes - something that's more of a modification to something else that has been successfully done

    The rationale for the reusable rocket could be to bring costs down I think (assuming you're referring to HLS). Check out this cost comparison for super heavy launch vehicles and specifically see the cost for the SpaceX vehicles versus all others

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  6. Comment on The lunacy of Artemis in ~space

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    I had seen that, but the author really didn't detail the specific technologies within the lander that pertain to being "breakthrough" though just landing on the moon is not in fact an easy feat....

    I had seen that, but the author really didn't detail the specific technologies within the lander that pertain to being "breakthrough" though just landing on the moon is not in fact an easy feat. The author seems to not realize how close the apollo mission was to not successfully landing on the moon

    Regarding the ascent testing, yes I understand how on the surface it would seem as though it makes sense to demonstrate a successful ascent, but technically the landing is the hardest part. Recall back to the Falcon rocket testing, where the initial launch was one of the first steps completed successfully but the landing took a few explosive attempts. I don't know that I personally would say that's sufficient reason to why an ascent demonstration is not needed, but I can see the argument being made

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  8. Comment on The lunacy of Artemis in ~space

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    Sorry for the delay! My fiancee is a NASA engineer on the Gateway team, which is where the majority of my direct insight comes from. First let me copy paste her own responses to the first few...
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    Sorry for the delay! My fiancee is a NASA engineer on the Gateway team, which is where the majority of my direct insight comes from. First let me copy paste her own responses to the first few sections, and then I'll add my personal commentary to the end:

    “That proposed mission is called Artemis 3, and its lunar segment looks a lot like Apollo 17 without the space car. Two astronauts will land on the moon, collect rocks, take selfies, and about a week after landing rejoin their orbiting colleagues to go back to Earth.”

    So yes and no… the goal with Artemis is to get to a point where we can do yearly missions. So the main goal of an early mission like Artemis 3 will be to collect samples and take photos of the terrain. But they will also fly with scientific payloads to run experiments some payloads will be conducted while in orbit and some will be taken to the lunar surface. So they will have multiple experiments going during that week they are up there. And they need to test the spacesuit systems, the airlocks, the elevator on the Human Landing System… we don’t know a whole lot about the South Pole region of the moon since that’s not where we landed during the Apollo missions, so the crew going there to “collect rocks and take some photos” is all in an effort to learn more about the area so that we can better plan for permanent infrastructure that will be needed for future missions. An early mission is going to mostly be for information collection and systems testing and if someone doesn’t get that then it makes me think that the person who wrote the article just must not be an engineer so they don’t know how these things work.

    I’m going to go through these couple sentences piece by piece lol

    “While NASA is no stranger to complex mission architectures, Artemis goes beyond complex to the just plain incoherent. None of the puzzle pieces seem to come from the same box. Half the program requires breakthrough technologies that make the other half unnecessary. The rocket and spacecraft NASA spent two decades building can’t even reach the moon. And for reasons no one understands, there’s a new space station in the mix.”

    1. As someone who has reviewed the Gateway Concept of Operations many times, along with hundreds of other gateway technical document from NASA and partners, I have never read anything I would call “incoherent” (confusing sure, but incoherent like gibberish… no). I also have never read anything about relying on a new technology that doesn’t exist yet… I can only really speak for the inside of the Gateway vehicle though. But I’m not aware of new breakthrough technology we are hoping gets developed in the next 18 months 🤷🏻‍♀️ so to say that half the program is relying on that, seems like a false statement. There are a lot of components of Artemis, but this is at least 100% not true for the inside of Gateway. In fact it’s the opposite. A lot of people think we are using too much heritage design carried over from the ISS just to save money, when we should be trying to be more innovative.
    1. “The rocket and spacecraft NASA spent two decades building can’t even reach the moon.”
    • This isn’t true. We had a successful Artemis 1 mission that did go to the moon.
    1. “And for reasons no one understands, there’s a new space station in the mix.”
    • the reasons for building the Gateway are not being kept from the public so I don’t know how this author isn’t able to answer this one with a quick google search… But the reason for Gateway is to provide a place to run scientific experiments in lunar orbit and to prepare for future Mars missions. Gateway is how we will be able to establish a presence on the moon. We we have an opportunity to test things beyond low earth orbit in a way humanity has never had before. We are going to be able to do really cool studies on the sun, the earth, human health, general life science areas that we have never been able to do before. So now there is no reason to say “for reasons no one understands” lol because plenty of people more knowledgeable than the author do understand.

    For some of their statements about Gateway:

    “Despite this open admission that Gateway is unnecessary, building the space station remains the core activity of the Artemis program.”

    Gateway is not necessary for simply putting astronauts back on the moon. Orion can dock to the HLS and crew can go to the lunar surface. But the goal of Artemis is not just to put people on the moon, but to establish the mission heritage to give us the foundation to go to mars. We need to have a well established lunar and deep space presence before we can go to Mars. The Gateway will be the first piece of that infrastructure and presence. That’s what it’s needed for.

    “The station is not being built to shelter astronauts in the harsh environment of space…”

    For this statement I’m sure the author is talking about radiation. Crew should never be on Gateway without Orion docked to it. And Orion was designed to be the “safe haven” for crew. So yes Gateway is not being built to shield crew from high radiation events (like a solar flare for example). But there is an established design and plan for Gateway crew when they will need to shelter, it’s that they will go to Orion and take shelter. That’s the planned operation that crew is being trained for. And Gateway is not that big. Going into Orion is going to be no different than going into any of the other gateway modules. This statement makes it seem like there is no plan for crew sheltering during Artemis missions and that’s just not true. So it’s true that gateway is not being built for crew sheltering but that’s just because Orion is handling that.

    So that's the end of her commentary,

    now for mine one thing I despised that this author mentioned is the "reliant on future technologies". She (my fiancee) did somewhat touch on this, but she did not finish the article because it was such a rant. I did want to see what the author was referring to and the only thing I could find was that he said as it stands no rocket has refueled another rocket in space. Please correct me if I'm wrong but that was the only feat that the author seemed to consider a "future technology" and it blows my mind they have so little faith in human ingenuity to think we cannot accomplish that lol. As it stands, rockets are refueling the ISS, and yes while we have never technically done a rocket-to-rocket transfer of fuel, why does the author truly think that will not be possible?

    I was hoping the author was referring to the super cool upcoming pulsed plasma rocket (PPR) propulsion technology that will be tested some time this or next year but alas I did not see it mentioned. And even though as it stands yes that tech is untested, it's not really a reason to not travel to Mars, it would just drastically reduce the time needed to get there and back.

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  9. Comment on The lunacy of Artemis in ~space

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    I do agree with some points the author made (primarily related to cost, and especially the reusing old components) but the sheer amount of wrong, subjective or deceptive information within this...

    I do agree with some points the author made (primarily related to cost, and especially the reusing old components) but the sheer amount of wrong, subjective or deceptive information within this article is astounding to say the least

    Combined with the fact that the entire thing is written to be inflammatory so as to bias readers into being “anti-Artemis” severely decreases the authors credibility in my eyes

    16 votes

  10. Comment on Students invent quieter leaf blower in ~engineering

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    Is there a printables link yet?? Would love to adapt this to my Ryobi later tonight

    Is there a printables link yet?? Would love to adapt this to my Ryobi later tonight

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  11. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    So let’s say that you have one peanut unaccounted for. What would you do? Keep searching for endless hours with no luck? Buy a brand new bag to guarantee there is no missing peanut in there? Or...

    So let’s say that you have one peanut unaccounted for. What would you do?

    Keep searching for endless hours with no luck? Buy a brand new bag to guarantee there is no missing peanut in there?

    Or assume it fell out and carry on with your packing?

    I’m going to guess it’s the latter, as the first are not appropriate responses imo

    Keep in mind that smaller caliber rounds can theoretically fall into nooks and crannies where locating them can be difficult, especially if you’re older and don’t have as great of vision, or you’re less mobile and lack the dexterity to turn your bag inside out

    Now with all this being said by no means am I saying it’s okay to leave ammo in a bag you’re flying with intentionally as that would be idiotic. All I’m saying it’s that this is not as black and white as many seem to think

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  12. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    I think you should have a general awareness of where your ammo is, but I do think it’s unreasonable to expect every single gun owner to think “okay, I loaded 13 rounds in my magazine but I didn’t...

    I think you should have a general awareness of where your ammo is, but I do think it’s unreasonable to expect every single gun owner to think “okay, I loaded 13 rounds in my magazine but I didn’t end up using that one today. When I get home I will unload the magazine and count to be sure they’re all there”

    Personally I have a good idea of where my ammo is, but I 100% do not count my ammunition when I get home. I do search my bags to be sure there are no stray rounds, but even still if one disappears am I going to start pulling hairs searching through my bag for it until located? Very unlikely, unless it’s a more expensive cartridge ($1+/round)

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    Keep in mind there are different reasons to leave the house with a gun, and most reasons other than self defense would typically warrant packing and bringing a bunch of ammo with you, such as...

    Keep in mind there are different reasons to leave the house with a gun, and most reasons other than self defense would typically warrant packing and bringing a bunch of ammo with you, such as hunting or a range day

    For range days to cut down on ammo packaging bulk, I’ll store my ammo in magazines so everything packs away neater versus if it was kept in the box. For hunting (assuming it’s pest hunting where the goal is to drop the animal versus getting a clean kill shot to preserve meat) I’ll do the same

    11 votes

  14. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    When being stored, yes but you would generally transport them together and it’s very possible for one or two to fall out without realizing it When you have 13 rounds in a magazine, you’ll never...

    When being stored, yes but you would generally transport them together and it’s very possible for one or two to fall out without realizing it

    When you have 13 rounds in a magazine, you’ll never notice if one or two is missing, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that every single person ever will check their bags for a stray round. Most people should if they knew a gun was in there, but if you packed the morning of your vacation and were in a rush are you going to be thinking about that?

    10 votes

  15. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    Bullets are way smaller than a bag of weed though, less smelly, and their brass casing allows them to fall deeper into a bag (as opposed to a plastic baggy that’s going to get caught on things and...

    Bullets are way smaller than a bag of weed though, less smelly, and their brass casing allows them to fall deeper into a bag (as opposed to a plastic baggy that’s going to get caught on things and resist getting buried)

    Again though depending on the size of the caliber bullets can be significantly smaller than most bags of weed

    Standard 9mm ammo dimensions are 9x19mm fyi

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    Not intentionally, but if there were some loose they really can be quite small, and even get tucked into the cracks/flaps/fabric etc Think of it like if a few peanut M&M sized things were floating...

    Not intentionally, but if there were some loose they really can be quite small, and even get tucked into the cracks/flaps/fabric etc

    Think of it like if a few peanut M&M sized things were floating around your bag (assuming these are 9mm). You might have to turn the thing inside out to get them all out, but since again they’re easily missed you might not even realize that you have some floating around

    It’s super easy to assume this is an irresponsible gun owner, which if there was a full magazine or an entire gun then yes I would agree. If it was a few bullets however, it’s entirely possible that it was a simple mistake (unless it was a larger rifle caliber, which is way harder to miss)

    When I’m packing, I don’t actively check for contraband that was already in my luggage. I generally just check what I’m packing to be sure it’s safe to fly

    With that being said, I also have totally separate gun bags from my personal bags, but I could see people using the same bags for both purposes

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  17. Comment on Some observations about some of the conversations here in ~tildes

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    Don’t thank me, thank the the guy that runs it! @vadimyakhin

    Don’t thank me, thank the the guy that runs it! @vadimyakhin

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  18. Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk

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    I would imagine that a significant portion of this could stem from your own personal confidence and self-esteem For instance I am very much looking forward to having children because I consider...

    I would imagine that a significant portion of this could stem from your own personal confidence and self-esteem

    For instance I am very much looking forward to having children because I consider myself to be an exceptional individual, that has brought a lot of good into the world between my own personal values and my ability to help other people in various settings

    I think the world would benefit from having people in future generations that may potentially share some degree of the same values, ergo one root basis for my desire to have children

    Sure, they could turn out to be sub-optimal offspring, and obviously my beliefs are my own subjective truth. With that being said though I am at baseline an incredibly optimistic person so I am not at all worried about those potential risks, as no matter what happens the world will continue on so why not just do what will make me happy?

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  19. Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk

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    Keep in mind, you can still cheat in a polyamorous relationship I consider cheating to be sexual relations with an individual without it having been communicated to the primary partner...

    Keep in mind, you can still cheat in a polyamorous relationship

    I consider cheating to be sexual relations with an individual without it having been communicated to the primary partner (specifically this would apply to situations where the above is not mutually agreed on). To add some nuance, if you’re in a non-monogamous relationship where both parties establish they are free to sleep with whoever they want whenever they want, with or without telling the other primary partner I would not consider that cheating

    With that in mind, do you really not understand why people freak out about cheating?

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  20. Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk

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    What… what did it taste like

    What… what did it taste like