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  1. I don't think so. It is not immediately rewarding project, so you invest a lot and then have (hypothetically) hundred or thousands years to get a return from an investment, so not interesting from commercial POV for a human being living here and now.. just like fusion.. Put thousands of satellites around the Earth that deliver Internet to customers, and they will pay every month for Internet (have you seen how much Elon demands? I paid less in 7 years than he wants in a month ). Put thousands of satellites around the Sun (or around the Earth) that deliver power to spacecrafts and/or Earth and how do you get a return on investment? This energy would be most optimally used to build even larger facilities in space, instead of delivering it to Earth. In capitalism, everything revolves around money. If you have money, you fly to the Moon or Mars. If you don't have money (but you have knowledge and know-how), you don't fly to the Moon or Mars. Silly. In fusion, one does not know when it will 'click' and 'the light at the end of the tunnel' will appear.. For eventual investor, with energy from the Sun delivered to satellites around it, it would be easier to estimate when they will pay off, than from nuclear fusion.
  2. ..it has already gone through the fusion and supernova explosion stages at a distant time > ~ 4.5 billion years ago.... It's just debris/dust from supernovae et al.
  3. The same can be said for putting solar panels around the sun and harvesting all the energy from it ("dyson sphere").. ps. For dimreepr to create a Dyson sphere would be an even bigger waste of money..
  4. I don't see any description of the device in your post. You need to be more clear/descriptive.. Do you have any idea what kind of nuclear reaction occurs during fusion? i.e., what fuel is used, what is the power output, what is the energy released, etc.?
  5. It is not a "rubbish device." It is used to keep an aircraft in flight in rare situations with overweight, oversized and over-powered engines. Which malfunctions under rare conditions in which pilots must take control of the entire aircraft. But they were not taught about the existence of this device, so they could not react properly at the crucial moment, so people died. They had just a few seconds to figure out what is happening, and act accordingly. The autopilot takes data from sensors. Just like a human. If the sensor malfunctions, and the weather is bad, such as nighttime, with no external light sources such as stars, sun, city lights, the understanding of the situation (position, altitude, aircraft rotation) is disrupted, both for the human and the computer. Hence the disasters. Pulling back the stick when you don't have lift is a recipe for disaster. You need the correct data from sensors or daylight to know if you have no lift force. Many disasters have happened simply because pilots thought "pulling back the stick" was a good idea in their situation. Understanding the situation is most important. Therefore, sensor redundancy to be able to determine which sensor is malfunctioning. One sensor may be malfunctioning, two sensors give different results, one gives bad results and the other gives good results, which one is correct? Three sensors, one is defective, two are unlikely to.. at the same time (unless they share the same wires/computers, etc.).
  6. This is what you are wasting..
  7. Sensei replied to ahmet's topic in The Lounge
    If you are addicted to TeX maker, you can simply use VirtualBox with a version of Windows that worked well with it. This way, I run Windows only apps on my Linux machine. Update, downgrade, figure out. It seems to be still supported, open-source, and cross-platform app.. Such an application shouldn't have any problems with Windows security and firewall, as it doesn't need any such actions to do its job. Did you download it from the authors' site and not from a third party website?
  8. Australia must continue to mine Uranium because it is needed to produce fusion fuel. Human thermonuclear fusion is a D+T reaction. It is an atypical reaction in the Universe/stars. But it gives much more energy than the typical H+H path. Uranium is needed to create D and/or T. or an alternative path. It is not possible to produce tritium in advance, since its half-life is 12.32 years. If one wants to have fusion reactors, one must also have traditional nuclear reactors and Uranium mines.
  9. No. We should not give up on the fusion. ps. You should give up from posting stupid posts and stupids threads instead..
  10. ...then stop pretending to have wisdom you don't have..
  11. The earth is not a living being, so it has no problems. These problems are created by humans to other humans, living now or to future generations. I disagree. Aluminium has pretty good recycling rate.. https://www.google.com/search?q=aluminium+recycling+rate "The global Recycling Efficiency Rate (RER) of aluminium is currently 76%. The RER defines how efficiently aluminium is recycled throughout the value chain." https://www.google.com/search?q=lead+recycling+rate "A Sustainability Star: Lead Batteries Maintain Impressive 99% Recycling Rate. As we celebrate America Recycles Day 2023 on November 15, it's important to highlight the remarkable sustainability achievements of the lead battery industry." Charts with various elements: https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+recycling+rate e.g. Lead used in ammunition, etc. is the margin of its use. It is highlighted in yellow on this chart: Of course, the higher the recycling rate, the better. But it is still impossible to achieve 100.0%. One can only try.
  12. There are different types of motors. Induction motor is just one of types. The difference between the two types can, of course, be found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_motor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_magnet_motor Look at Tesla's design in the photo. There is no permanent magnet. We can only see the windings on both the stator and rotor.
  13. Sensei replied to Gian's topic in Politics
    Have you heard of influencers on YouTube (or other social media)? This is the "dream job" of most of today's teenagers. I like this machine. Nice IT/embedded programming job.. There is even a movie about it, for children (at a time): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/ ..but all the land would be bought by the rich.. jobless.. cash-less proletariat cannot afford to buy land..
  14. ..you won't even notice.. Wow. These days they would never do that...
  15. Science can't do anything. It is not an entity.. Scientists can do something, but they only do what their budget allows them to do. They have to ask for even bizarrely small amounts of money to do something, calling it grants. There is an international consortium of fossil fuel supporters backed by army of lobbyists paid by oil and gas companies to destroy humankind / keep their incomes remain intact / as high as possible. People are known for not working for free.. except for volunteers.. What future?
  16. If the quality of food is better now than in the past, why you have obesity disease in the US now... ?
  17. The mortality rate of dictators.. Nice and naive. But if you were really in Russia and read and watched their propaganda, you would know that they are already pushing that it is not a war with Ukraine (what war?! They don't even use that word to the level where people go to jail if someone uses it!), but a NATO attack on Russia.. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/26/russia-bans-media-outlets-from-using-words-war-invasion-a76605 Instead, it is called "liberation" and words of similar meaning.. According to the Internet, only 5% of Russia's population can understand what we are talking about. Which makes reaching them quite difficult. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+russian+speak+english https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population 7.5 million out of 145 million.
  18. The easiest way to get the best score for this project is to use a 3D printer to make air gaps and connections between different layers. Make a project, print, measure the time it's cool. Make the 2nd project, print, measure the time it is cool. Make the 3rd project, print, measure the time it is cool. etc. Pick up the best project to show to teachers. Experiment with different filaments such as PLA, ABS, ASA, PETG, TPU, etc. and different 3D printing techniques. Create a precise spreadsheet to show the results.
  19. Science is like Lego. One piece rests on top of another piece in the right place. When you start discarding something that's really on the bottom, nothing fits on top anymore. Funnily enough, these people ("flat-Earthers") use the Internet and cell phones, which are based on the top few percent.. Flat-earthers cannot live in either Japan, the US or Hawaii. Simply pinging Japan from the U.S. or Hawaii, or vice versa, yields something that completely does not fit their theory. The latency of pings is correlated with the distance the data has to travel in both directions. Such delay is used to triangulate a person, vehicle, etc. So, when you know that Japan has a small ping to Korea, and Korea has a small ping to China, and China has a small ping to India, and India has a small ping to Pakistan, then to Saudi Arabia, Israel, then to Turkey, and then to Europe, you can indirectly measure distances by simply measuring the ping latency from thousands of connections. On a flat Earth, is Japan close to the US? In spherical Earth, data can go through the Pacific ocean, or through satellites, or through entire Asia (which is easy to detect as it is longer distance to the West US).. What flat-earthers have instead? Tokyo-Los Angeles is 8814 km in "straight" line https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=tokyo+los+angeles+distance while to Madrid there is 9356 km https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=madrid+los+angeles+distance (plus all the rest through Europe-Middle East-Asia).
  20. On a flat Earth, there would be no day and night cycles and no time zones with different time according to altitude and longitude, nor would there be different seasons.. There would be no polar night and polar day, and no aurora borealis. The poles only make sense on spherical objects anyway. On a flat Earth, distance from lat1,long1 to lat2,long1 would be the same as from lat1,long2 to lat2,long2 and making a perfect rectangle or eventually square.
  21. With ChatGPT v3.5, you can ask the same question in two different ways or in two different languages and get completely different answers.. The result is completely unreliable and even dangerous if one is not aware of how it works, and believes everything without any doubt (like the typical people using it)..
  22. For an atheist, none. The atheist lives in the here and now and does not ask transcendental questions.,
  23. Obviously. If you are omniscient, or the creator of the Universe.
  24. When a skyscraper is built, in some projects, mostly in developed countries, nets are installed every few floors to catch falling builders (Building Safety Regulations etc).. Once construction is complete, the nets are removed. Nowadays, windows in skyscrapers are often designed in such a way that they cannot be opened or broken, to prevent people from committing suicide by breaking them and jumping out. If someone wants to commit suicide, they will find a way around anyway..

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