Readit NewsAVRide press release - https://medium.com/avride/avride-and-uber-launch-robotaxi-ri...
I’m excited to see this. Ideally we want as many successful (safe) AV companies as possible to avoid a monopoly/duopoly situation.
What did the royal navy do? There is no mention of the UK using force against sealand in either the Wikipedia page or this BBC article about sealand. (Though obviously the royal navy could retake sealand if they wanted)
I’m reminded of this article about writing good Anki cards. The act of writing a good question is at least as important, if not more so, than the spaced repetition part.
Back when the US was reliant on Russia to get to the ISS the US paid 60 to 90 million dollars per seat. I wonder if the US will charge the same now. Would Russia pay that much? Their space agency seems strapped for cash lately.
If you pick a random person off the street and ask them who discovered the Americas will they answer 1. Leif Erikson, 2. Indigenous peoples or 3. Christopher Columbus? If you ask people who invented the smartphone will they say Apple or some other company?
It’s absolutely possible to lose a race you had previously won.
No that’s generation. It’s on page 49 of the report. Table 7d Part 1 “US Regional Electricity Generation” it’s measured in billions of kilowatt hours.
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/pdf/steo_full.pdf
And if anyone is interested I have some of my own graphs on top of the EIA data to make it easier to read - https://eia.languagelatte.com/
IMO the only remaining unanswered question for the Starship program is the reusability of the heat shield. There's no reason to believe any other part of it can't work.
I only casually follow the news from r/spacex, but prop transfer is what I see generate the most discussion. It’s a hard requirement for all deep space missions. Where the heat shield could be refurbished between launches.