the website feels heavy, can we optimize this further?? (not a web dev)
I just looked at it in the dev console in a chrome based browser and I think it is already pretty optimized. It runs very smooth on my device (Thinkpad T480).
Space Elevator
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#22Was hoping would go to geostationary orbit as an actual space elevator would :)
Such a lost opportunity, was hoping for another "space is massive" experience like already done in similar interactive maps.
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#23A beautifully executed project here, I bought Neal a coffee. What evolutionary advantage, I wonder, is there to Ruppell's griffon vulture flying at 11400 meters? edit: units
Feets are actually just fine in anything related to aviation.
I prefer to call them "footsies" or, sometimes "feet".
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#24A beautifully executed project here, I bought Neal a coffee. What evolutionary advantage, I wonder, is there to Ruppell's griffon vulture flying at 11400 meters? edit: units
Not every behavior has an evolutionary advantage. If anything, "evolution" filters out disadvantages (eg: can't survive because your neck's too short and that pesky giraffe is eating all the leaves you could reach). Evolution kills what doesn't work.
but every behaviour has a cost. In cast of flight altitude its energy and distance to food, water, mating zones.
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#25Giant Space Bola is much more attractive. It is a 10000 km string with capsules at both ends. It rotates in sync with earth so that the speed at meeting point is the same. You just hop in and end up in space without much effort. Because it is freely floating you can move it around to avoid meteor impacts and other such shit.
Did you read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson? In the second part of the book, they use this and related technologies.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not every behavior has an evolutionary advantage. If anything, "evolution" filters out disadvantages (eg: can't survive because your neck's too short and that pesky giraffe is eating all the leaves you could reach). Evolution kills what doesn't work.
but every behaviour has a cost. In cast of flight altitude its energy and distance to food, water, mating zones.
Having a cost and being too costly aren't the same thing though.
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#28Incomplete. Where's the LEO, GEO, the counterweight?
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#29I loved the visuals but space elevators are far more science-fantasy than hard science-fiction. We should move on to sci-fi tech that has more realistic applications.
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