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I’m Sarah. I’m a Brit who fled to Portugal on account of Brexit, increasing intolerance and the British weather. I like climbing (although I can’t do much any more for health reasons) and sailing. This is a Friendica account. Friendica is kinda like Facebook as Mastodon is kinda like Twitter, except they can talk to each other.
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@heluecht Yeah, without the whole centrifuge thing.
I think, reading between the lines, someone is daydreaming about some pointless nonsense and a journalist added 2 and 2 and came up with 10000
“Could soon” is doing an awful lot of work there.
I could soon have an pony.
It smells like tech bro nonsense, doesn’t it?
Save fuel is it? Ok, put it on a train. Water in the way? Put it on a boat. They’re super efficient.
@yogthos also, how much fuel are you using transporting shit to your yeeter, driving past a few dozen perfectly good airports en route?
@yogthos Not when you then have to expend shit tonnes of delta V turning the plane to face the right way because you can’t just take off from a normal runway and turn to face the right direction at a normal speed, like normal planes can.
This is the aviation equivalent of a gadgetbahn. Someone saw Top Gun and got stupid ideas about scaling up steam catapults, didn’t they?
Yeeting planes is not new. The reasons we don’t do it in civil aviation have not changed.
@yogthos So not “launching hypersonic planes into space” then, but a horizontal catapult for feeble rockets.
Assume this is just to save an SST having to spend fuel getting up to low supersonic speed, and then it lands as a glider.
There are lots of designs for engines that work from stationary to hypersonic speed, which are air breathing, and have the advantage of being able to take off from runways.
@yogthos article says Mach 7.
This is not a serious space launch proposal. Nowhere near fast enough. It’s the sort of suborbital malarkey that Branson is doing.
Orbit or GTFO.
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@aniki As I said, I did the comparisons fully expecting to get a NUC. The Mac was cheaper at the performance point.
As for US prices, not especially relevant to me. Import taxes are a thing.
@Skwiggs Few months. I was using an old laptop with Debian before but Friendica was cooking it, literally.
The M2 Mini doesn’t break a sweat. It just takes the load and gets on with it.
@ninjan friendica can get quite heavyweight.
@aniki because it was the cheapest machine available for the performance I wanted in a useful form factor.
@return2ozma @davel And variously previously one-to-one, Orange, and T-Mobile.