So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.
Starship will be deploying the next gen v3 satellites, which weigh about 2 tons each. A single Starship launch with 60 of these deploys more capacity than 20 launches of a Falcon 9.
The figures they've been talking of the ideal cost per launch of starship are even more insane. I'm sure some of it is hype farming on Twitter but if they get the cost to less then $1000/kg it would be incredible.
Yes; I think it would be more accurate to say that the economics of Starship basically require high cadence launches with lots of v3 Starlink satellites (because only the big internet constellations can financially justify launching so much payload to orbit right now).
Is this a bit? Are you channeling your inner Jeff Albertson? I don’t feel like this is even real. Almost like a response from Gemini itself to give a parody anecdote about itself.
I had a similar experience trying out Gemini early this year where it would always say it couldn't do the thing I asked but could provide resources and/or walk me through doing the thing myself.
The things I enjoy aren’t because I’m the best at them. I don’t care that software could crush me at reading or playing games. Or a robot can lift more weight than I can or hike a trail faster than me. A robot could surely crush me at laying out on the beach and snorkeling.
Comparison is the thief of joy. Enjoy what you want without thinking about how much worse you are than someone or something else.
Cook because you like it or have to do it for financial reasons. Write because you enjoy it (or have to for financial reasons). You get the point.
That seems backwards? Robot-assisted surgery costs more and has better outcomes right now. Given how hesitant people are, these aren't going to gain a lot of traction until similar outcomes can be expected. And a rich person is going to want the better, more expensive option.
Robotic assisted surgery is only helpful in some types of operations like colon surgery, pelvic surgery, gall bladder surgery. It’s not been found helpful in things like vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, or plastic surgery.
I would've fully imagined it the other way around, a robot with much steadier hands, greater precision movements, and 100x better eye sight than a person would surely be used for rich people?
By Elysium level tech a surgery could mean simply swapping an organ with artificially grown clone, so perhaps surgeries won't be that complicated anyway...
