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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Boom Aerospace, not content with attempting the next Concorde, have gotten a little sidetracked. Funnily enough, they didnāt show any footage of the engine actually working. Surely itās whisper quiet and wonāt be a massive pain to live next to.
https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/ai-needs-more-power-than-the-grid-can-deliver-supersonic-tech-can-fix-that
I would simply not name my airplane company āBoomā.
I regret I have but one upvote to give to this
The best I ever saw was a reply to a news story to the effect of, āIf I were ever invited swimming in the Murderkill River, I would just not go.ā
(This might be the original. Then again, it might not.)
okay, thatās the missing piece (? not the last): 1GW from GE, 1GW from proenergy, 1.2GW from this fuckass startup that nobody heard of, either missing 1.2GW of gas turbines or 1.2GW grid connection gets almost 4.5GW of power for crusoe
also you donāt need supersonic jet engines for that, these will be actively worse in reality for stationary power generation. they do that because you can haul them in a truck
thank Jack Welch for deindustrialization then
Lockheed Martin: am i a joke to you? (also, lots of manufacturers for proper CCGT turbines do just that)
read: āour product development is a black hole of cost, and our big investors are breathing down our necks to grab this cash while itās thereā
This is such a pivot, from āyou can soon fly between capitals in half the timeā to āthis screaming jet engine will soon be disturbing your sleep 24/7ā
It never had market. Wait 3h at airport just to get on a 3x, 5x more expensive flight so that instead of 5h you fly 3h - make it make sense. For people that donāt wait at airports anyway rental of demilitarised MIG-29s would make more sense
Honestly you could probably pitch that to the Musk/Thiel set pretty easily by playing up how masculine fighter pilots are and disconnecting but not removing the rear flight controls. Let them push buttons and feel cool.
If anyone can figure out how to get exmilitary F15 for joyrides itās them. I guess Thiel would be fine without pretending as passenger, but Musk not, and learning this takes fuckton of effort, something heās allergic to. Either one of them having supersonic chauffeur that has to go everywhere their jet does is exact kind of nonsense iād expect in this timeline, and i donāt think that either is actually healthy enough to become a pilot in the first place
@fullsquare
Larry Ellison has or had a working MiG.
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I assume theyāre thinking about transcontinental flights most of all. Dubai->LA or whatever.