“patent pending”
Includes “Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire”
The article doesn’t go into the details but it doesn’t look good. Including how happy you feel into a final metric of how well you can process data doesn’t seem rigorous.
"This 80 year old is happy and doesn’t know his own name so we will rank him higher than this woman who is still practicing law and playing chess at grandmaster level but is depressed and not sleeping well. "
, only that it can still be improved at that age and we don’t need to resign ourselves to a degraded mind
A reduced degrading is still a degrading.
Yes it’s not the early days of Space X but it is the early days of Russia’s Starlink (googling says it’s planned for 2035). During Starlink’s early days it was “we are learning” and “cost of business”. Russia loses one in a test and it’s, “they’re idiots”. That’s jingoism.
I don’t know where this fame for “constant failure
The early days of SpaceX was constant failure. 3 of the 5 Falcon 1’s failed.
Something’s inconsistent here.
Russia starts program for Starlink type program and loses 1. “Hur dur, stupid Russians.” SpaceX loses 25 in the first year of launches back in 2020 and it’s the cost of doing business, nothing to see.
SpaceX is famous for failing constantly. Musk was always tweeting before he bought Twitter about how the latest rocket failure was another learning opportunity.
Again it’s not that Starlink doesn’t work. It’s how the news is framed that makes it jingoism. Starlink lost dozens of satellites when they were first starting in 2019.
hey’re designed to be continuously deorbited and replaced like that.
As I said, they’re not all done because of obsolescence. Many are deorbited because of failure, not for upgrade reasons.
I didn’t say Starlink doesn’t work. It’s jingoism because Russia loses a single satellite and it’s advertised as a huge failure. Meanwhile Starlink loses 14 satellites in 6 months to failure (not part of their standard deorbit) and its “normal business operations”.
Starlink loses 400 satellites a year. Only some of those are because of planned obsolescence.
I hate Russia for invading Ukraine but this is jingoism.
Maybe shithead oligarchs are too incompetent to be trusted to competently run space programs?
You talking about Musk?
I didn’t realize King Louis’s real name was Peter Jackson.
Given that they use an array of magnets that can rotate freely, it’s not “breaking” the law. At a distance the magnets are random and exert a force to lateral movement. Move the magnet array closer and the magnets align to the magnet below and the force changes.
It’s like saying a ball on a hill violates Amonton’s law. At the top of the hill you can push it easily. Push a little more such that it rolls down the hill and now in the valley of the hill you need more force to move it because pushing sideways means you are trying also push it uphill.
The magnets once flipped do not unflip when pulled back from the magnetic surface.
Given they are using an array of freely floating magnets it doesn’t seem like a big “breaking”. It’s possible to create normal mechanical systems that also “breaks” Amontons’ first law. For example, imagine a surface with an array of spring loaded pegs poking out of holes on a teflon surface. At light loads the object will have to slide against the pegs. But push a little harder and the pegs will push down into the holes of the surface and the object is now sliding on teflon.
I showed the tank loses. You have shown nothing.
It’s not Russian propaganda to point out that both Russia and Ukraine are losing all their tanks to drones.
It was Ukraine that innovated on the battlefield and made tanks obsolete.
Link? Because the only news I’ve read is tanks on both sides are being decimated by drones.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-has-decimated-ukraines-m1-abrams-fleet-mc
87% of Ukraine’s Abrams have been destroyed.
If it was only Russian incompetence that made tanks obsolete then Ukraine would be fielding tanks successfully.
If you have a 3d printer to make a case, seed studio released a 7" color e-ink terminal with a built in esp32. Even friendlier is the Pimoroni Inky frame with a built in raspberry pi.
Both around $100 USD.
I already linked to a 20 year research paper that shows micro plastics are toxic. That they aren’t as toxic as lead or depleted uranium found on other battlefields doesn’t make it non toxic.
https://ceobs.org/plastic-pollution-from-fibre-optic-drones-may-threaten-wildlife-for-years
Bullshit. You said this:
“On the plus side, when this stuff degrades it just turns into sand. So at least there won’t be a toxic waste problem on top of everything else.”
After I showed it is a toxic waste problem on top over everything else you moved the goal post to “straws”.
I didn’t say they should stop using drones. I only refuted your claim that there’s nothing to clean up afterwards.
You just seamlessly switched from plastic straws specifically to all microplastics from all sources.
No, you threw out a concentrated localized source of microplastics by saying, “Its just straws.” That village is covered in thousands of miles of fiber. Most plastic, some glass.
How much do plastic straws contribute to microplastics?
So if I shredded pounds of plastic and a little fiber glass and sprinkle it from the air on your house it doesn’t matter because straws?
GTFO. You’d be the first person crying to the government about how your lawn is ruined.
We’re talking about a village covered in fiber optics.
If that’s glass fibers in that nest, the baby birds will be dead.
Yes and it’s completely valid to do so. The electronics of a quartz watch will fail if subjected to water just like the more complicated IC in an apple watch.