Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 10

@eff

cool, but . . . that's a lot for only 25 minutes

@hirojin

It really is a pretty simple model of how people think that explains so much.

@Are0h

@kurtm

oh well, if no one else means what they've said any more, then nevermind, I guess.

@natecull

oh, sorry, I started to reply and then realized that you weren't talking about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266

@cynicalsecurity @myrrlyn

I think there's an argument to be made that for prepping and seeking approval for any non-trivial load, one so well-known to Musk would have definite advantages over anything new.

@myrrlyn

A friend and I were wondering what sort of prep was required for the car. We started musing about materials longevity and so on, and then I threw out "so, you don't just Armor-All the tires and send it off" at which point I went through, duh, you can't send up inflated pneumatic tires, so something had to give there, just as a trivial example. Take out the tire valve cores or what?

@cynicalsecurity

@kurtm

2/n nor is it just a question of the intricacies of getting anything useful out of any space flight that might blow up and is headed out on a challenging-to-support orbit.

It's a question of taste. I feel pretty comfortable saying that Musk has demonstrated considerably more sensitivity to taste than most of the half-hearted, underinformed carping here. Clearly, you're not the target market.

@mwlucas
@cynicalsecurity

@kurtm

I do not seek, nor need, anyone's approval to state, let alone to hold, the opinion that this petty carping about what this guy sent up rather than the standard hunk of concrete is anything other than the frail work of small minds.

There is a lot to criticize this ultra-rich mogul over, and even more over which to criticize others in his class.

This, though, is a question not just of what is the reasonable done thing (eg, concrete) 1/n

@mwlucas

Ones with budgets? I mean, I'm (arguably) a scientist and think it'd be fun, sure. But I have nothing to back that up, nor a decision to make about rolling those dice.

@cynicalsecurity @kurtm

@mwlucas

Not that I think you should do this to satisfy me, but it seems it would be easy then to find a citation from someone actually building sone sort of sat that would have been willing to risk it having been blown up.

@cynicalsecurity @kurtm

Going to heliocentric orbit that intersects Mars orbit, which is not remotely the same as going to Mars.

@mwlucas @cynicalsecurity @kurtm

@jannamark

Compared to other things Caplan has published about this, this article understates what we know about signalling: This isn't mere opinion with which one can readily disagree. Studies have quantified the extent to which crossing the finish line matters to income.

@starbreaker

@forteller

Just going to @ that here to see what happens:

@freedomboxfndn

@Are0h

Have you tooted or otherwise published about your time away in any detail? Having lived abroad for a time, and travelled, am often interested to compare notes, as it were.