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lmao Malachite_Dragon posted:Yes, how dare he progress space tech more in five years than it had gone in the past twenty
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I only fault Elon Musk for casually taking too much credit away from his engineers.
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Tom Mueller: it would be really cool if we could build a rocket engine that could be throttled and restarted in midair, and the software systems required to use it as a descent engine. Elon Musk: you should do that. Mueller: okay. It will be a big challenge, though, and I don't know if I can do it Musk: hmm. Have you tried working on it really hard? (Years later) Mueller: phew, I figured it out. Musk: I knew we could do it! Nerds: what an incredible inventor that Musk is, like a real life comic book man
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Feb 25, 2018 17:33
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Sagebrush posted:Tom Mueller: it would be really cool if we could build a rocket engine that could be throttled and restarted in midair, and the software systems required to use it as a descent engine. Lol
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Feb 25, 2018 17:37
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obviously they meant to post that in buttcoin
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Sagebrush posted:Tom Mueller: it would be really cool if we could build a rocket engine that could be throttled and restarted in midair, and the software systems required to use it as a descent engine.
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Sagebrush posted:Tom Mueller: it would be really cool if we could build a rocket engine that could be throttled and restarted in midair, and the software systems required to use it as a descent engine.
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this is several years old but apparently peter thiel has been diversifying his supervillain portfolio Thiel’s Breakout Labs -- which is part of the Thiel Foundation and awards small rounds of funding for research ideas -- gave a grant of $300,000 to a Canadian inventor who’s attempting to harness human-made tornados to generate energy. The company is called AVEtec, and the technology is dubbed the Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE). 
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Feb 25, 2018 22:53
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is that a way to harness atmospheric thermal energy or something.
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wide stance posted:I only fault Elon Musk for casually taking too much credit away from his engineers. truly he is stebe reborn
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:this is several years old but apparently peter thiel has been diversifying his supervillain portfolio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-6VLy_Qr2U amazing http://vortexengine.ca/PPP/AVE_Basic_Introduction.pdf
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PokeJoe posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-6VLy_Qr2U anyone else getting an Alex Chiu vibe off those graphics
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President Beep posted:is that a way to harness atmospheric thermal energy or something.
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:this is several years old but apparently peter thiel has been diversifying his supervillain portfolio why is it in a cooling tower
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ArmZ posted:why is it in a cooling tower why not? read the pdf, it's the dumbest loving thing i've ever seen, and i've read your posts
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Feb 25, 2018 23:35
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tl;dr: tornadoes and hurricanes exist and output a lot of energy, also we can artificially create confined tornado like vortices (using a net input of energy), therefore ~*furious handwaving*~ free energy from natural thermal gradients
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Feb 25, 2018 23:40
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infernal machines posted:why not? read the pdf, it's the dumbest loving thing i've ever seen, and i've read your posts wow you've never seen your own reflection? incredible.
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thiel invests in schemes that are either from burning man and/or the back of an issue of popular science
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infernal machines posted:tl;dr: tornadoes and hurricanes exist and output a lot of energy, also we can artificially create confined tornado like vortices (using a net input of energy), therefore ~*furious handwaving*~ free energy from natural thermal gradients if the documentary twister taught me anything it’s that tornadoes are v hard to work with & predict.
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President Beep posted:if the documentary twister taught me anything it’s that tornadoes are v hard to work with & predict. *straps belt to water pipe*
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ArmZ posted:wow you've never seen your own reflection? incredible. Kaboom
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not what I expected when I heard "ave" and canadian.
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TerminalRaptor posted:not what I expected when I heard "ave" and canadian.
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President Beep posted:if the documentary twister taught me anything it’s that tornadoes are v hard to work with & predict. *stubbornly continues to repost tornado-related craigslist jo party ad*
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Sagebrush posted:Tom Mueller: it would be really cool if we could build a rocket engine that could be throttled and restarted in midair, and the software systems required to use it as a descent engine. A good post
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infernal machines posted:why not? read the pdf, it's the dumbest loving thing i've ever seen, and i've read your posts they claim to use waste heat from existing power plants to make the vortex seems like there could be unforeseen consequences from creating a giant twister inside a nuclear power plant but idk im sure it's fine
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there's that and the whole, if you have enough waste heat and temperature differential to do that, why not use any one of the hundreds of not loving pants on head stupid ways of converting it into mechanical action?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:*stubbornly continues to repost tornado-related craigslist jo party ad* speaking of craigslist JOing and weird sources of energy I hope JO crystal guy survived the hurricane 
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everyone everyone you're missing the big picture: Peter Thiel is wasting his money on this thing. no matter what else, that is a net good
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It’s not really a waste when he lobbies a government into installing it and makes a sweet payday, working or not
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Caganer posted:speaking of craigslist JOing and weird sources of energy I hope JO crystal guy survived the hurricane it would’ve actually been worse, had it not been for this positive energy warrior facing off the storm, blasting it with bro-jizz powered JO hadokens.
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infernal machines posted:tl;dr: tornadoes and hurricanes exist and output a lot of energy, also we can artificially create confined tornado like vortices (using a net input of energy), therefore ~*furious handwaving*~ free energy from natural thermal gradients
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*beckons you closer* it’s free energy
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Sagebrush posted:Tom Mueller: it would be really cool if we could build a rocket engine that could be throttled and restarted in midair, and the software systems required to use it as a descent engine. i am no defender of elon "elon musk" musk or his companies, and i am hilarified by the popular reaction to what his companies do and the ridiculous popular concpetion of him as tony stark and it is absurd that musk gets any credit as a inventor for this, that is very lol worthy but from my limited glancing at this, musk seems to have been willing to fund years-long basic scientific research for something that is ostensibly worth doing, not a guaranteed success, with not a guaranteed return on investment, and though i woudl prefer my taxes go to this instead of a private company doin git, thats pretty significant on its own i mean "gets undue credit for funding necessary basic science research" is not really defensible, but "funds necessary basic science research" is pretty good all things considered with the rest of "tech" culture
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i don't think i ever suggested that it's bad that spacex is making these rockets it's just dumb that all these I loving Love Science nerds fall over themselves to fellate Ol' Musky, whose in toto contribution was to spot the company a bunch of money and tell them to build rockets, and don't even know who Tom Mueller (or any other member of the engineering crew) is
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afaik the SpaceX Merlin engine is based on an engine NASA was partnered with TRW to research and Meuller was on the development team for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-106 and when you consider this is all descended from TRWs lunar lander engine things start making a lot of sense
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lancemantis posted:I still don’t know why Americans buy smart cars you can rent them by the minute in NYC. Every other driver on the road has the middle-school bully mode kick in and gets extremely angry at the fact that something that derpy exists and is driving on the streets, just asking to be dominated by your Corolla.
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Sagebrush posted:i don't think i ever suggested that it's bad that spacex is making these rockets reminder that musk is a net negative on spacex's operation as a whole since he constantly throws the whole production into chaos because he'll come in periodically and demand everything be done completely differently and then leave you know, the one thing you don't want to do to a loving aerospace thing that relies on reproducible processes to work well
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