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Old 05-22-2021, 08:55 PM   #3621
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Old 06-10-2021, 10:52 AM   #3622
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Really cool un-intuitive science experiment. Making a vehicle propelled by the wind, go faster than the wind. And it doesn't work the way you think it does.
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Old 06-10-2021, 11:26 AM   #3623
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Really cool un-intuitive science experiment. Making a vehicle propelled by the wind, go faster than the wind. And it doesn't work the way you think it does.
Really impressive! That explanation with the cylindrical earth model was awesome. Also, love the "test pushing or pulling the lever, and whichever one slows you down, do that" instruction on how to stop.
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Old 06-10-2021, 11:59 AM   #3624
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I remember arguing about that on science forums before and while they were building it and then after they tested it and showed it works. Worse than airplane on a treadmill
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Old 07-11-2021, 08:42 AM   #3626
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Richard Branson heading up for a flight this morning. It was supposed to start at 8:30...
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Old 07-11-2021, 09:36 AM   #3627
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This seems...I dunno, useless? They only had a couple minutes up there. That's a lot of money, effort, and resources for a brief bit of zero G.
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Old 07-11-2021, 09:47 AM   #3628
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This seems...I dunno, useless? They only had a couple minutes up there. That's a lot of money, effort, and resources for a brief bit of zero G.
In this form yes, however this is the start of orbital air travel. They will likely leverage this tech into being able to travel across the planet in a couple of hours.

This flight should be looked at as akin to the flight at kitty hawk.
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You mean akin to Mercury-Redstone 3 from 1961? I mean X-15 flights went higher...

In this form that's about as much as they can do, to go orbital they'd need a rocket booster with that plane being the next stage or something.

But it's still space tourism in some form, and just another case of stuff that took a nation to do is now in the reach of individual companies.
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Every big journey forward needs a first step. Seems small and waste of money at first (I thought the same). But I'm sure the Wright bros got laughed at too at first. As did many other inventions throughout history that went on to become the various forms of travel we take for granted today.

A lot of it is probably a billionaire playing around with his cash to do something cool no one else gets to do. But this is a great leap forward for future air travel. Really cool to see this happen and a nice distraction from the doom 'n' gloom clouding the news these days.
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Old 07-12-2021, 06:32 AM   #3631
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I'm not really sure how it becomes the future of air travel. You need an incredibly massive launch vehicle that wouldn't work at a normal airport, and it moves a handful of people. You can't scale it up much without scaling up the launch vehicle.


Space X has done something amazing and practical while cutting costs. This looks more like a dead end to me, but I could be wrong.
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I'm not really sure how it becomes the future of air travel. You need an incredibly massive launch vehicle that wouldn't work at a normal airport, and it moves a handful of people. You can't scale it up much without scaling up the launch vehicle.


Space X has done something amazing and practical while cutting costs. This looks more like a dead end to me, but I could be wrong.
Starship is also being built for earth air travel, and it’s a ridiculously huge machine that requires a brand new facility anywhere it wants to land in the world. A stratosphere kissing plane makes way more sense
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Old 07-12-2021, 06:45 AM   #3633
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The Starship has an ultimate purpose though. Virgin Galactic is just a $250k ride. It doesn't appear to have a practical use.
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Old 07-12-2021, 08:17 AM   #3634
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The commercialization itself is maybe something, often as things become more common and commercialized they help stretch the boundaries.

Even if not I still think it's worth having if the cost comes down enough to where more people can try it.
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This is quite intriguing. #### cancer

https://www.freethink.com/health/natural-killer-cells

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Harnessing the ability of natural killer cells within our own immune system, researchers at Canada’s McMaster University have developed a new form of cancer immunotherapy.

The team engineered natural killer cells to not only attack cancerous cells — including in solid tumors, a problem for some other kinds of immunotherapy — that also to distinguish between those malignant cells and healthy cells that only look like them.
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This is quite intriguing. #### cancer

https://www.freethink.com/health/natural-killer-cells
Intriguing indeed, I'm all for curing cancer for people too young to die but it could be a problem if we can't cure long-term conditions such as Dementia, Alzheimer's, Arthritis and nerve damage in old people. Cancer ####ing sucks but for older people sometimes it can end the agony.

One step of a time I guess
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Intriguing indeed, I'm all for curing cancer for people too young to die but it could be a problem if we can't cure long-term conditions such as Dementia, Alzheimer's, Arthritis and nerve damage in old people. Cancer ####ing sucks but for older people sometimes it can end the agony.

One step of a time I guess
we have much more dignified ways of easing people of pain than letting them perish from Cancer.
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Old 07-25-2021, 06:47 AM   #3638
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For those interested in the James Webb Telescope it finally looks like a go for Late Oct or Nov as it's being shipped to the launch site next month.

Nasa press release

Cool little video on it's capability's
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Now that someone has put in the work to identify the problem, what are the chances that anything is done about it? I would guess only the plant in Germany is altered in any way. That's a bit of a black mark on such an advanced country.

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