Geoff Pack

Web developer. Formerly at @ABCAustralia
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[Geoff Pack @virtualgeoff]

Amused to see a painting of @Starlink satellites (by Sam Cranstoun) was a finalist in this years AGSNW Wynne Prize.

https://t.co/FsfS7OxU3n

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@chucker @WebDesignMuseum Nah, 7.0 is too complicated for a good logo. A circle, and a square, and an eye, and a wave background, and, bizarrely, a small Adobe logo. Too much.

The later feathers are naff, and the 'Ps' logos are boring and lazy.

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@paulg “Problematic” is a weasel word. Vague and insinuating, but without substance. But not new.

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@vpostrel Nah, you just had to stay up late to watch old films on TV. Or find that one run-down cinema in your city that played ‘weird’ and cult films.

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@sciencegirl All the gap tells you is if the mirror coating is on the back or the front of the glass (usually it’s on the back).

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@abrova_ @XFreeze Well, everything except nuclear power. All the actual matter of and on the Earth came from other, earlier Suns.

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@TrainLinkSouth How long until the R sets replace the Endeavors on the Kiama to Bomaderry leg?

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@Jamie308746 @SawyerMerritt Australia is ideal for EVs really — so much potential for local solar and wind, instead of expensive imported diesel (Currently $3 / L due to the war in Iran)

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@BestMovieMom I loved the film, but two other things bothered me:
1. they send a botanist, but not a single packet of seeds?
2. they're sending multiple missions to Mars but there's still a shortage of rockets? (SpaceX has made this point moot)

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@TheByteRacoon @tobyliiiiiiiiii Both O₂ and CH₄ are gases at room temperature. They won't be sitting around as liquid. O₂ fumes are good, and CH₄ is non-toxic, so low concentrations probably won't be an issue.

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@Aella_Girl Do you vote libertarian?

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@xAviation Its size is impressive, but it’s ugly. The 747 is much better like looking.

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@fillgoss @johngoddard @elonmusk Every living creature apart from the humans — the people in the US are a lot more deadly than in Aus. Compare the murder and gun homicide rates for example

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@Rainmaker1973 It doesn’t generate metabolic energy — it consumes it by converting it into kinetic energy (and heat)

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@Aella_Girl It wasn’t a question though.

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@100MBTC @lrocket Everything I've read says that delta-v to main belt asteroids is only slightly higher than to the lunar surface, and delta-v to many near-Earth asteroids are less than to the Moon. Even Phobos and Deimos are lower delta-v than the Moon if you use aero-braking.
Not an expert tho.

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@joequant I think that should be 300 GW of solar capacity per year, not 300 Gwh, which would average to about 60 GW continuous @ 20% capacity factor.

And 8534000 GWh per year is ~975 GW.

So it should take them ~16 years.

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@lrocket Even easier to get material from the asteroids.

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@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk No, it doesn’t consume 460 GW of “energy per year” — it consumes 460 GW of power (continuously).