CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Doesn't that kind of imply this vehicle would be capable of achieving orbit? I figured speed would at least be limited by dry weight ratio.

[–] CanadaPlus 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's pretty much bang on.

You learn pretty fast that you're an idiot and yes, you can write something, read it back many times, and still be wrong.

[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 2 years ago

Really? Thermometer temperature, not windchill? Interesting. They’re only marketed as working down to that cold (with some variation) according to everything I've read. I’d be worried about damage any lower.

[–] CanadaPlus 8 points 2 years ago

Let's not go there, on second thought.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Project Loon, too. The idea isn’t new, and I kind of wonder why it’s more viable now.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Same for Starlink. There’s only so much bandwidth even a very modern antenna can have. And something flying is going to be power-limited as well.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

It sounds like a Starlink satellite costs more than a million dollars, so that’s a pretty good deal if so. I wonder why this isn’t a thing already?

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

Jesus. Somebody got kicked out of their house over that, guaranteed.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As with most brain questions, nobody knows exactly.

One theory for the purpose of it, is to prevent us from confusing things we dreamed about with things that actually happened.

Edit: Lol, this always gets downvoted, but it's the truth. We know nothing about the brain; almost all the studies that get reported on are basically this.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

I mean, define terrorism. I'm not about to Ted Kaczynski anything, but political violence is how literally every civilisation is built and maintained.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Follow up question, would it ideally work like the old Java Applets then, where you have to explicitly ask to launch a web app?

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago

or a web app, but instead should be a plain ol’ webpage

I did not know about that distinction.

Hmm, so are there actual inadequacies in the browser-rendered standards that lead people to do this? I'd buy that it's purely webpage sponsors wanting to be an all-powerful decider that controls what everyone sees and possibly thinks, but on the other hand I don't know enough about browser rendering and page design to be sure. All my webpages are pretty spartan and scream "backend guy".

It'd sure be nice if we could go back to circa-2012 with no popups or stupid bloat.

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