JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
Formerly "SandwichWarrior" and "The Upright Man", may or may not be feral, is most certainly quixotic.
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JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
If a scorned woman nursing a personal vendetta against the man and his family is your idea of an "ally", you have no standards at all.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Incredibly cringe. His death is a meme because even his fans and allies (looking especially at those like Tucker Carlson claiming Israel killed him at the funeral, Candace Owens...
This maybe one of the most egregious examples of outgroup homogeneity bias I've seen in a while.
Yes, Candace Owens joined TPUSA claiming to have renounced her woke ways in 2017, but then she attempted a hostile take-over of the organization in 2024, got kicked out as a result, and seems to have been nursing a personal vendetta against Kirk's wife Erika ever since.
Meanwhile, Carlson and Hanania were only ever "allies" of Kirk in the sense that they were all ostensibly Republicans, A a party that both have been working to distance themselves from for some time now.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Typically there is a heat exchanger on the exterior of the hull with coolant that is circulated between the interior components that need to be cooled and the exchanger. These are the matte white panels you see around the base of the service module on the Apollo and Soyuz capsules. On the Shuttle the heat exchangers were on the inside surface of the cargo bay doors which is why you never see the bay closed while in orbit. Meanwile most satellites as well as the ISS have radiator fins mounted perpendicular to thier solar arrays such that when the solar panels are oriented towards the sun the radiator will either be in shadow or edge-on
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
I'm not convinced that the sizes are that "ludicrous", especially if Starship actually delivers on even a fraction of it's promise.
We're not talking about orbital megastructures here, we're talking about something on the scale of the ISS
I busted out one of my old textbooks and found the equation to compute the area required to radiate a given amount of energy in a vacuum. "A = W / (E * SB * T ^ 4)" where A is the radiator area in square meters, W is the wattage, E is a value between 0 and 1 representing the efficiency of your radiator, "SB" is the Stefan–Boltzmann constant, and "T" is your operating temperature in Kelvin. So lets do some back of the napkin math...
A = 1,000,000 / (0.25 * 5.67e-8 * 400^4)
A = 1,000,000 / (0.25 * 0.0000000567 * 25,600,000,000)
A = 1,000,000 / (0.25 * 1,451.52)
A = 1,000,000 / 362.88
A = 2,755.73 square meters.
Per my reply to @sarker above I actually think that sounds pretty doable. For reference the ISS has just over 2,500 square meters of solar panels.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Numbers presented without showing the math can be dismissed just as readily.
That said assuming you construct the radiator as a "fin" so both sides are exposed to space you would need a 50m x 20m structure or maybe 5 10m x 20m structures mounted along a truss to ensure 2000 square meters of radiating surface. That actually sounds pretty workable.
For reference the primary solar panels on the ISS are 36m x 12m a piece and there are 8 of them.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
What your paternal grandparents did or did not consider is irrelevant to this conversation, we are talking about what you consider.
Sweep away the high-sounding language about emancipation and radical individualism and what's left is a intellectual, moral, and biological dead-end.
You are alive, posting on this forum today because when you were small the people around you cared for you. They fed you, they clothed you, they taught you to read and write. If you really view this as "slavery" then perhapse they should not have done those things.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Is the current GOP really any more a "Cult" than the Democrats are at this stage?
While I would not underestimate the GOP's penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they appear to have a clear path forwards. Assuming that the political apparatus that Rubio and Co. have spent the last decade and a half building will simply evaporate the moment Trump exits stage right seems presumptuous.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
I expect Platner and his supporters to try and blame this all on the Jews/Isreal before the month is out.
Only insofar as "fascism" has become a generic sneer-word for any philosophy that makes leisure class liberals uncomfortable.
Historical Fascists had a very clear and specific idea of what thier movement was about.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
As a parent myself, Good.
If you find the idea of living for someone other than yourself problematic, you're probably going to end up being a shitty parent.
If test flight 12 had been issue free, my answer would be "in the next 3-6 weeks" but as it stands if test flight 13 (currently scheduled for July 31st) successfully demonstrates reliable in-flight re-light capability for the raptor engine I would expect test flight 14 to go orbital.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
You just elected a third world communist to be the mayor of New York.
I didn't elect him. You (the rootless affluent liberals who sneer at normie Americans) elected him. And whether or not someone can be "booted" out of the country for not being American is arguably one of the hottest fronts on the culture war right now.
Yes the current focus is on illegal immigrants, but we can discuss expanding the effort to include Communists and Salafists once the border is secure.
Im not talking about charity so much as moving out of Silicon Valley and getting a normal job at a normal company.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Because doing something that actually contributes to society is seen as "low status".
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
No they did not. Again, Germans didn't start to show up in meaningful numbers until the mid 19th century when the US was already established, and even then they were themselves immigrants.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
Fair point, I'll admit that I had mentally lumped the Scots in with "Free Englishmen" which I recognize is a faux pas when speaking to someone of Scottish descent.
You are wrong.
New York and Pennsylvania started as Dutch colonies before being occupied by the English in the 3rd Anglo-Dutch War. Meanwhile the Spanish presence in what would become Florida the Carolinas and Texas predates the Mayflower by a century, and much of the Mississippi watershed had been colonized by the French which set the stage for both the French and Indian War and the Louisiana Purchase.
Germans didn't start showing up in meaningful numbers until the mid 19th century, three generations after the United States had already been established.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
My country is not a costume,
No, it's an ideal. That is what it means to be a "Creedal Nation" I have far more respect people like @Opt-out who elected to self-deport, than I do the false friends who claim to love their country while simultaneously aligning themselves against everything it stands for.
As I said above, If you want to leave, I want you to leave. At the same time, if you are onboard with Baseball, Buc-ee's, and government by consent of the governed I welcome you with open arms.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
4mo ago
With a smattering of Dutch, French, Spanish and Native tossed in for flavor.
I hate this.
...and for what it is worth I hate you right back. While I may not have coined the phrase I do share the sentiment. Rawhide Kobayashi Is more of an "American" than you will ever be so long as you continue to cling to your old-world bigotries. Change my view.
I had intended to write an effort post commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of independence. Instead I allowed myself to be distracted by kids, dogs, the world cup, and holiday festivities.
I appreciate your post both for it's content, and for providing me with an opportunity to hit some of the bullet points that I had wanted to hit without putting in the effort expected of a top-level post. I had wanted to start with a discussion of Justice Thomas' address to the students and Faculty of the University of Texas from a couple months ago (the address itself starts around 9:20 into the video). Specifically how he describes the distinction between treating ideals and principles as abstract intellectual concepts vs treating them as active forces. He talks about his experience growing up under Jim how and about how while the law may treat people unequally, the law can not make them unequal, only God can, and only you can take away your dignity. He talks about the United States being a "creedal nation", IE a nation defined by ideals rather than blood-lines or geography. Those ideals being the ones espoused in the Declaration of Independence and in the Preamble to the Constitution.
I agree with Justice Thomas' observation that those ideals have fallen into disfavor in recent years, especially amongst our so-called "experts" and "elite" as those ideals are dismissed as "unscientific" and "anti-technocratic". Like Justice Tomas I also find it troubling that patriotism and has been allowed to become a partisan issue. Gone it seems is "the loyal opposition" instead what we have are two factions. Those who seek to diminish the United States and the ideals espoused in the Declaration versus those who seek to embody and perpetuate them.
Count me among the latter.
Back in January I wrote a post about how "Allegiance" was something that I feel is sorely missing from the modern immigration debate and that is a post that I stand by. Recently there was a poll going around about how 55% of self-identified Democrats would prefer to live overseas, and I can't help but contrast that with what has easily become my new favorite genre of content which is foreign World Cup fans reacting to mundane Americana like Air Conditioning and Ranch Dressing. If you want to leave, I want you to leave. At the same time, if you are onboard with Baseball, Buc-ee's, and government by consent of the governed I welcome you with open arms.
Happy 250 to my fellow Americans, and here's to 250 more.
Yes I know, I adressed that in my prior comment.
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