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Cake day: August 11th, 2023
  • My only complaint to add to the debate is that too much of the waste discussion assumed it’s burnt fuel and not just irradiated junk shoved in barrels. At least that is what a former nuclear engineer complained to me about.

    The second I guess in the US is the weird public private deals that permiate the industry. Like who’s the inspector? Oh that’s a private company? Whos responsible for the waste? The government? Where is it stored? Oh your not sure? It was SUPPOSED to here but some of its there and some of it supposed to recycled but some supposedly can’t be. Who funded this? Who’s profiting?

    I got some very confusing answers asking people in the industry about it, and they seemed to agree it was confusing.

  • Tiān gāo, huángdì yuǎn
    Heaven is high and the emperor is far away
    

    Is one of my favorite.

    Another is the a misattributed quote:

    Les hommes ne seront jamais libres tant que le dernier roi ne sera pas étranglé avec les entrailles du dernier prêtre.
    
    Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
    

    Though the apparent original is good too.

    Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois.
    Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
    Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.
    
    I seek neither to rule nor to serve.
    And its hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
    For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.
    

    The second line from the US declaration of indpenedce is a banger too:

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
    

    John Brown’s:

    I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
    

    Is also really good.

  • Potentially greater power collection for use since solar arrays dont need to be built with the same space and enviromental constraints.

    Potentially already in the data path for a lot of communications with satilites being capable of both last mile and backhaul communication.

    Archtecture could take advantage of all three dimensions better again because of the extra space and different enviromental constraints (the big one being gravity). This is truer the more of it could be consteucted in microgravity.

    Physical security. Its pretty hard for someone to sneak in.

    Further failure domain segmentaion. I.e. hurricanes, earth quakes, etc not saying space is safe (good God not saying that!) but if you have a DC in florida, California, and above the earths mesosphere the likely hood that a disaster effects all three is pretty slim.

    Closer data transit for interplantery or lunar communication.

    Ignoring the costs and new hurdles of the enviroment this is what im tracking.