Pretty much with anything ya.

Unless there’s some super important thing I need in the latest release, if my shit works and there’s no security vulnerability, im in no rush to update.

Part of the problem is also how many packages people bring in, even for the simplest of things.

I really like in the Expanse how they show that working with the ships where they flip themselves and then do another burn to stop.

Exactly. Then you move up to the $100 or $200 or per token API pricing levels.

Im not convinced something like Claude isnt profitable with enough users. I dont think people are spending more in compute than they pay.

Getting enough paying users though requires it to be better so more people will pay.

Obviously the free tier is at a loss, but I mean at a per paid user level.

Well damn, those solar panels would probably be at least a dozen Eiffel towers tall then.

SpaceX has made changes in the past so the dishes break up better. That could have been one of the earlier dishes, but maybe it was also one of the ones that failed to properly insert into orbit which changed the re-entry characteristics?

The big things like you mentioned wouldn’t be starlink. That’d be from something larger like a 2nd stage that came back down and didnt fully burn up. Thats a risk with everyone, mega constellation or not.

Luckily, starship will be fully reusable which will prevent that, but the trade off is, if starship is successful, a failure during re entry is going to risk having a vehicle designed not to burn up, land somewhere it shouldn’t.

Similar risks to the shuttle if it blew up, but these will be flying much more frequently

Nothing quite like that aluminum oxide! So refreshing!

How big do you think these are going to be? A lot of people seem to have this concept of these massive things in space and that’s not what it’s going to be.

Starlink v3 already need to radiate 20kw of heat away, these are going to be 100kw.

They aren’t huge, they are many.

Well, the heat generating datacenter part isn’t anyway… the solar panels and radiators will be quite large once unfolded.

Edit: Clarity above, but also here’s an image which they say is to scale.

See how small the actually data center portion is? Those solar panels are super thin and will fold up super tiny, and so will the radiator. Even if the radiator size is wrong, the main point is these things are small, and not what you should think of when you think data center. I think someone else likened the size to a server rack or two.

We would be pretty lucky if it impacted something like the ozone layer in a noticeable way as that’s something that can be seen and could be acted on and repaired as we’ve done before.

It’s the effects that we don’t know that are probably going to be the bigger problem.

That’s a bigger thing than just closing the spaceports to private companies as OP was suggesting.

That would likely be politically more difficult to pull off than closing existing ports.

edit: Just to clarify, one is saying, sorry you can’t use our public resources. The other is saying, sorry you can’t build your own resources either.

It ain’t going to happen with what we’re currently doing. The orbits are too low. It’ll just hamper things for 5 years or so if bad shit happens until everything burns up in the atmosphere.

SpaceX bought a retired oil platform at one point to try and use as a launch point. It didnt work, but if you told them they couldn’t launch from land they’d probably figure a way out.

Its almost impossible to have not at least sentenced him to 1 day after something like that if a prison sentence is legitimately on the table.

Slovakia said they were going to block it?

A life sentence here you become eligible for parole in 10-25 years depending on the crime. It does not mean you will be granted it though, and you can remain in prison your whole life. You also remain on parole your entire life if granted.

There’s no life without parole here.

This feels Ike a the onion title lol

So, while I’m not too knowledgeable about politics in Hungary, this may or may not be relevant…

In Canada we used to have the progressive conservative party, and the reform party. The reform party was the religious / right wing nut jobs, and the PC’s were, well I’m not really sure what i was too young to follow it to closely, but they weren’t like the reform party. How progressive they were though I don’t really know, it could have just been a name… The reform party would be closer to MAGA than what the PC’s were.

The right wing parties were losing elections though to the Liberals, so Harper managed to bring both the PCs and the Reform together under 1 party, with their sometimes very wildly different views. As much as he was damaging to Canada, Harper was an excellent politician and he managed to keep control of these 2 factions within the party as Prime Minister for almost 10 years.

Once Trudeau came into power after people had had enough of Harper, these two factions in the federal conservatives have been in a sense fighting each other. We had Erin O’Toole as one of their leaders, and he was trying to be more middle on some topics, and the nut job part of the faction threw him out.

I’m saying all this to say… Maybe, just maybe, Magyar has thrown out the bad seeds in the party. Yes, it’s still going to be a conservative government, but maybe we can get back to what politics was like before the crazy right wing nut jobs infiltrated all the conservative parties around the world and made things much worse.

I would love to see our conservative parties here throw out the bad seeds. We just had a merger of right leaning, and nut job parties like this in BC, but we narrowly shut them out in the last election, and watching what has happened within that party since, has been a gongshow.

I saw diesel at the equivalent of $7.47 USD/gallon today where im at.

All the military weapon suppliers who now get to restock the used supply. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pushed this as a way to funnel money to them.