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benkay: (i challenge you
to watch
the explanatory video all
the way
through)
benkay: it can also lead
to bad ideas
benkay: being high can lead
to good ideas
mircea_popescu: basically
this sounds like someone was playing arkanoid while high.
benkay: another one i've always found similarly amusing and less idiotic: have a giant sheet of aluminum zipping around up in orbit. lob payload over it, and as payload clears apogee
the film goes zipping by underneath. magnets in
the payload set up eddy currents in
the strip of aluminum, providing
the forward oomph
to accelerate payload. repeat with several more strips.
benkay: apropos only of oddball methods of achieving orbit,
this one made me chuckle: you fire your payload directly up into
the path of a passing payload-catcher, which opens its payload-catching bay at precisely
the right
time
to accept your payload without losing a
terrible amount of
the gas in
the bay, and closing
the door behind
the payload. payload compresses gas in intake bay as form of shock absorber.
thestringpuller: Namworld you
took over Bitvps because of your experience with Namworld I presume?
Namworld: I already have a business and spare ones
to work on/with
benkay: and maybe a business
too
Namworld: Maybe I should start playing EVE
too. But I'm so busy.
benkay: Namworld: and let's not even
talk about
the ludicrous amounts of energy
to be harvested up
there
Namworld: It's already out
there in outrageous amounts
benkay: you see
thestringpuller? physics in
the haus.
Namworld: You have
to farm asteroids for
the metal, not rocket it into orbit.
benkay: furthermore, you'll never haul mass up
to LEO, you'll drop mass down from
the moon or
the belts
thestringpuller: I want
to be able
to launch
the fucking pyramids into space
benkay: nothing
to do with life support systems
benkay: it uses ambient o2
to fuel
takeoff up
to and including mach 5
benkay: what part of air breathing
to mach five do you not understand?
thestringpuller: no way you could build a star destroyer or capital ship in even low earth orbit, without spending
trillions of dollars
thestringpuller: benkay: I don't
think
these have payload capacity I would be looking for
grubles: didnt know i had
that char
that long
grubles: all i know is
that my character was named dankherbz
benkay: thestringpuller: ssto, airbreathing up
to mach5
grubles: i
think
that is what is cool about eve
grubles: my character with shit
tons of SP
grubles: all
those skill points wasted
grubles: damn whos gonna
take
their loot
then???
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller ya lol, i wonder what ppl will do when
they'll realise
that.
mircea_popescu: do you know one of
the
two people killed in benghazi was playing eve at
the
time ?
grubles: im having a hard
time wrapping my head around
that
grubles: i cant get over
the fact
that you play eve online mircea_popescu
thestringpuller: you need a directional burn perpindicular
to
the initial apoasis in order
to achieve a stable orbit
thestringpuller: i wonder what will be
the most cost effective way of getting something into orbit in
the future
mircea_popescu: A space gun, by itself, is not capable of placing objects into stable orbit around
the object (planet or otherwise) from which it is launched.
The laws of
two-body gravitation make it impossible
to reach a stable orbit
thestringpuller: for every 1
tank of fuel you want
to send into space it
takes about 9 fuel
tanks
to get it into orbit using rockets
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller we're not financing it becauser it's fucking impossible
to shoot something into orbit
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I have an offensive
theory.
The end of slavery has made people lazy.
ozbot: The linguistic mark of cultural failure pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
kleeck: I don't sell a product, I
teach you how
to do it, young padawan.
kleeck: I want a logo of Yoda, eyes closed, force-hands above his head with a
thought bubble containing a hash, indicating Yoda is force-mining!
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jurov: in
the morning... anf you did check
the diff but nothing happened
jurov: yea i said
ThickAsThieves "mind you"
today
jurov: but
that 0.022 a dude offered... couldn't resist
jurov: screw dat. no way will
the diff be onder 200m in october
kakobrekla: 3000
tx fees is a huge loss for zhoutong
mircea_popescu: "what's
the difference anyway ?" "plain sex can make your day but anal sex can make your hole weak"
mod6: no idea, best part of
the article might be
the pic of
the license plate: anaslex
mircea_popescu: why is vice "hiring" all
these marginally literate college dropouts
to write about shit
they've never done/seen/understood ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 889.56345725 BTC
to 500`000`000 shares, 177 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: just like you don't want
to live in a place where you have
to eat shit.
mircea_popescu: because you don't want
to live in a place you can't make a bitcoin gambling site anyway
benkay: mircea_popescu: why would i bother
tying my personal location
to
the location of
this instance?
mircea_popescu: costa rica, vietnam, gabon,
the list is longer
than my cock.
mircea_popescu: benkay just find a place
that's reasonable
to live in, has hot chicks and isn't an ally of
the nazis.
benkay: yo assets - what are
the good jurisdictions for hosting gambling web applications?
ozbot: Bitcoin Foundation Candidate Debate | Lets
Talk Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: Italy has increased
the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly"
to "Elaborate Military Posturing."
Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."
mircea_popescu: The French government announced yesterday
that it has raised its
terror alert level from "Run"
to "Hide."
The only
two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender."
mircea_popescu: opera is in fact so good
that one
time when i had lost an article i wrote someone emailed it
to me
two days later.
pankkake: fractal: use
the Lazarus Form Recovery extension next
time
jurov: now i see i had
the window
too narrow and read previous row
fractal: yeah
total scam.... I'll just
type it again.... brb
jurov: bitcoind shows it
together
mircea_popescu: you can't include
two payments
to
the same address in
the same block.
fractal: for fucks sake.... I just spend 30 mins making a post about
this bet and it
timed out when i clicked submit now i have
to
type again . for fucks sake.