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Bizarre yogurt experiment could be key to colonizing Mars but there will be disgusting consequences, say… – The US Sun
Posted: January 5, 2024 at 6:33 pm
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SpaceX Must Build 1,000 Starships In 10 Years To Reach Mars Goal. So Far, 0 Starships Have Made It To Space – Jalopnik
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Elon Musk is all about leaving Earth behind and heading to Mars on one of his rockets and taking a whole bunch of people with him. Hes previously said that to make regular flights back and forth between Earth and Mars a reality, his company SpaceX would need to build about 1,000 Starships.
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Thats going to take a while, considering theres only a few Starships in various stages of construction right now and it hasnt you know been to space, let alone Mars. In a recent Twitter (or X, I do not care) post, Musk suggested SpaceX may actually need to build Starships even faster than he initially anticipated to make his weird Mars colony a reality.
To achieve Mars colonization in roughly three decades, we need ship production to be 100/year, but ideally rising to 300/year, Musk wrote on Twitter. That is a shit ton of ships. To put that in perspective, over the past three decades, Boeing has built an average of about 300 of its 737 aircraft per year. Keep in mind, 737s are a lot easier to build than rocket ships meant to go to Mars, and Boeing is really good at building them something SpaceX cannot say at this point about Starship.
The 737s pace of production isnt the only airline-related goal SpaceX is after. Gwynne Shotwell, Musks second in command at the company, said last year that engineers have ...designed Starship to be as much like aircraft operations as we possibly can get it We want to talk about dozens of launches a day, if not hundreds of launches a day, Ars Technica reports. This needs to happen for SpaceX so it can lift millions of tons of equipment into space for a theoretical Mars settlement. Many of the launches will reportedly be Starship refueling tankers needed to make the interplanetary trip a reality. Think of them like space gas stations in a way.
Heres how Musk and SpaceX plan to make the Starship and Super Heavy booster work over and over again and what exactly theyll be used for, according to Ars Technica:
SpaceX still aims to make the Starship and its Super Heavy booster rapidly reusable. The crux is that the ship, the part that would travel into orbit, and eventually to the Moon or Mars, wont be reused as often as the booster. These ships will come in a number of different configurations, including crew and cargo transports, refueling ships, fuel depots, and satellite deployers.
The booster design will be the same across the different types of ships in the fleet. The Super Heavy, with more than 30 Raptor engines, will also return to SpaceXs launch sites about six minutes after liftoff, similar to the way SpaceX recovers its Falcon boosters today. Theoretically, Musk wrote, the booster could be ready for another flight in an hour.
With the Starship itself, the laws of physics and the realities of geography come into play. SpaceX will initially have Super Heavy and Starship launch and landing pads in South Texas and Cape Canaveral, Florida, although the company has flirted with the idea of offshore launch and landing platforms.
As an object flies in low-Earth orbit, the Earth rotates underneath it. This means that a satellite, or Starship, will find itself offset some 22.5 degrees in longitude from its launch site after a single 90-minute orbit around the planet. It could take several hours, or up to a day, for a Starship in low-Earth orbit to line up with one of the recovery sites.
The ship needs to complete at least one orbit, but often several to have the ground track line abc up with the launch site, so reuse may only be daily, Musk wrote, according to Ars Technica. This means that ship production needs to be roughly an order of magnitude higher than booster production.
Despite Musks general shittiness and desire to overpromise and underdeliver, Ars Technica says hes actually been fairly level-headed when it comes to SpaceX. Hell, hes even apparently said his schedule predictions are often aspirations. Yeah bud, you think?
Only time will tell if Musks goals for SpaceX can happen. His past successes and failures have had about as wide a range as the companies hes owned. Will Mars travel end up like the Tesla Supercharger network which is pretty much the gold standard of charging right now? Or will it end up like his underground Las Vegas tunnels which are really just a joke at this point?
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Academic Bias and Censorship Are Huge Problems, and We Can Prove It – National Review
Posted: January 4, 2024 at 3:31 am
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Laws banning semi-automatic weapons and library censorship to take effect in Illinois – Toronto Star
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Here Are The States Urging SCOTUS To Allow Biden Admin To Coordinate With Big Tech To Censor Online Speech – Daily Caller
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Laws banning semi-automatic weapons and library censorship to take effect in Illinois – Firstpost
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China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty – Newsweek
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Iowa School District removes over 70 books without following proper review procedures – Blogging Censorship
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The Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District in Grimes, Iowa has removed 73 books from school libraries in an attempt to comply with Iowa Senate File 496, which prohibits school libraries from having any materials with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.
The National Coalition Against Censorship has written to the school board to urge them to improve their procedures for reviewing materials they suspect to be in violation of Iowa law, ensuring that important books remain available on library shelves.
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Chinese election interference tests Taiwans capability to defend freedom of speech – Index on Censorship
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As Taiwan gears up for the presidential and legislative election on 13 January, the Chinese government is also ramping up its efforts to interfere. From sponsored trips to China for local leaders, economic coercion, fake opinion polls, and disinformation campaigns, some analysts say the wide-ranging tactics that Beijing has unleashed will have an impact on the elections outcome.
In recent weeks, Taiwanese authorities have launched investigations into several cases of individuals attempting to sway voters by inviting local borough chiefs and village leaders on group tours to China. These trips are partially sponsored by local Chinese authorities.
During the trips, participants were allegedly encouraged by officials from Chinas propaganda department to vote for political parties and candidates favoured by Beijing. At least one man has been indicted while several others are facing ongoing investigations.
Apart from sponsored trips, Beijing also rolled out coercive economic measures to pressure Taiwan, suspending tariff relief on imports of 12 Taiwanese petrochemical products, and blaming it on the trade barriers enacted by Taiwans ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
Since 2023 is a major year of cross-strait exchange for China, Chinese authorities have devoted a lot of resources to facilitate influence campaigns against Taiwan, Puma Shen, chairperson of Taipei-based research group Doublethink Lab, told Index on Censorship. They want to make sure that Taiwanese people feel threatened but also are not too afraid of the influence campaigns from China.
The most recent example of Chinas influence campaign is an investigation into alleged lip-sync by popular Taiwanese rock band Mayday, a practice that is banned for live musicians in China. A Taiwanese security agency internal memo claims the investigation is Beijings attempt to pressure the rock band into publicly supporting the position that Taiwan is a part of China.
Shen from Doublethink Lab said Taiwanese people who have huge financial stakes in China, such as artists and businessmen, often become targets of Chinas influence campaign. Even though they are earning money in China, they are more like victims, he said.
Multi-pronged cognitive warfare
In addition to economic coercion and influencing local politicians, some experts say China has also launched multi-pronged cognitive warfare against Taiwan ahead of the election, amplifying narratives criticising the ruling party through state media outlets and initiating disinformation campaigns on social media platforms, including TikTok, YouTube and Facebook.
Over the last few months, Chinas state-run media outlets have repeated the narrative that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is pushing Taiwan to the brink of war with its efforts to pursue Taiwan independence. The narrative resonates with criticisms against the DPP by opposition candidates in Taiwan, who have repeatedly accused DPPs presidential candidate, Lai Ching-te, of being the golden child of Taiwan independence.
There are also signs that Chinese state media and online troll groups are amplifying narratives aimed at damaging the image and credibility of the Taiwanese government, including controversial domestic issues such as the de-sinicization of Taiwans curriculum and scepticism toward the Taiwanese governments deepened relations with the USA.
According to Taiwan AI Labs, online troll groups have mirrored narratives promoted by Chinese state media, including the Peoples Daily, Haiwainet, Xinhua News Agency, Global Times, and China Central Television (CCTV). While there is no direct evidence to prove that China is behind all online troll groups, Taiwan AI Labs said their behaviours fit the criteria of autocratic countries interference in democratic elections.
Since the online troll groups promote narratives about Taiwanese domestic issues and U.S. President Joe Biden and there is a high similarity between the narratives they promote and the narratives preferred by Chinese state media, we can conclude that it fits the methods that autocratic countries use to interfere in democratic elections, Ethan Tu, the founder of Taiwan AI Labs, said.
Compared to Chinas efforts to interfere in previous Taiwan elections, it is becoming harder to determine whether disinformation targeting the upcoming Taiwanese election originates from China or not.
This time around, its very difficult to determine whether the disinformation originates from China or is created by actors within Taiwan, Chiaoning Su, an associate professor in communication, journalism, and public relations at Oakland University, told Index on Censorship.
In her view, China has built up a better understanding of public opinion in Taiwan and they realise that for efforts of election interference to work, the narratives they amplify need to match the trend in Taiwans public opinion.
The way that China is amplifying social economic issues such as the controversy of lack of eggs or the debate about reducing the amount of ancient Chinese literature in the curriculum shows that their efforts to initiate disinformation campaign are becoming more localised and harder to trace, Su said.
Shen from Doublethink Lab said one of the main goals of Chinas disinformation campaign is to denigrate democracy. They want to show the Taiwanese public that Taiwans democracy is a mess and that while the DPP claims to protect democracy and freedom, in the end, it is not democratic and free at all, he told Index on Censorship.
Since Taiwan is a democracy that values freedom of speech, Shen thinks Taiwanese authorities need to deal with the threats that come with Chinas election interference through ways that will safeguard Taiwanese peoples freedom of expression, by specifically identifying remarks which originate from sources external to Taiwan.
Otherwise, they will fall into Chinas trap, he said.
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Laws banning semi-automatic weapons and library censorship to take effect in Illinois – Index-Journal
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