even if water is found and can be used this is an issue that may not be so easy to solve:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...

not a really thought out rebranding apparently

Couple of days ago no one in the company knew they're doing a rebranding. Including the CEO. One man knew.

I'd be impressed if a company of this size could do a perfect job, but ya

Here is an available implementation:

https://github.com/lucidrains/muse-maskgit-pytorch

Hopefully stability.ai will train this model and release it open-source. It's much easier to train it than Stable Diffusion after all.

an interesting take:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/05/26/solving-space-junk...

That would work and incentivize effective removal of space debris too.

It may even be implemented by consensus as it would generate revenue for the taxman.

OT but always related to a more universal access to medicines:

an opensource covid-19 vaccine is now in progress (supported by Harvard University and the Government of India)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915546

Supported by the Harvard School of Medicine and the Government of India, they seem to be close to launching multiple phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials

More information here:

https://www.ospfound.org/open-source-covid-19-vaccine.html

https://consano.org/projects/openvax-open-source-vaccines-fo...

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-open-source-li...

what if he goes back in time to the moment before leaving and disintegrates the time machine?

if selfconsistency is right it makes me wonder if a time traveler can actually be interacting with the past around him

"they release pure carbon dioxide which can be stored underground or used to create products like...fuels"

sounds really smart indeed

ps. they address this issue citing that they would need more federal funding to bury more co2 underground instead of using it for making fuels carbon neutral..it's so hard to see that for 100$ now we would sacrifice our very own life if somebody doesn't pay us $150 to do otherwise

The thermodynamics of this are a disaster, which will drive their cost of capture higher than this range. Capturing CO2 from coal fired power plants costs about $100/tonne and is easier due to substantially higher concentration than doing so from air. Their pilot plant requires significant electrical and heat input which they get from burning natural gas -and then capturing that flue gas. I think this is a PR exercise for the primary investors.

for reference a link to the previous conversation is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854895