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Just been quoted £1850 to paint a 7 meter by 4 meter living room.
15 litres of paint necessary to do the job costs £44 for Dulux, or £26 for Screwfix own brand.
This is not a particularly skilled job.
You've been to college, not medical school.
You own a paint brush & a roller.
Stop taking the Mickey, tradesmen.
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I got quoted £900 for clearing my garden.
My neighbor, who needs the money, did it for £200
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Cold-Induced Diuresis: When you are cold, your body tries to protect your vital organs from hypothermia. Blood vessels near your skin and extremities narrow (a process called vasoconstriction). This pushes more blood toward your core, which temporarily raises your core blood pressure. Your kidneys sense this extra volume and filter out more fluid to lower the pressure, creating more urine.
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I suppose Europe is at the "weak men create hard times" stage of the game. Are we far behind?
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All the people screeching about the Tesla Roadster flying car demo don't get it.
Nobody thinks this is going to be a practical flying car sold to the mass market, and you just look like a fool debating it.
Elon doesn't, Tesla doesn't, the engineers working on it don't, and any sensible public or Tesla investor doesn't.
They know they aren't going to sell more than a handful or them or whatever for funsies, that's why it's literally "invite only" on the order page.
There is absolutely no sensible business decision to spend 7 years working on this, they know it's going to be a negative return on investment. Heck, if they do get sold there is high likelihood it's going to get someone killed, and that's really bad for business. Just the normal rear Thrust version is probably going to kill people.
But they do it anyway for the reasons this poster on the EEVblog forum said. No wonder engineers fall over themselves to work for an Elon company.
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The damage for SpaceX is massive
"The European Union is working toward fast-track antitrust approval for a satellite joint venture between Leonardo SpA, Airbus SE, and Thales SA, which is positioned as Europe's response to SpaceX"
The actions of the 🇺🇸 US administration have consequences.
Recent reports from 4 sources confirm that both Elon and Trump supported the restrictions of Starshield, which confirms my earlier posts stating that SpaceX is involved and part of it.
The Telegraph on Oct. 16 reported that it was Musk who proposed the speed cap to Trump — and Trump "agreed," one source said.
That sounds very likely to what really had happened including Elons denial to have any responsibility (half true) and Trumps lie which is just one more of the many he spreads every day. finance.yahoo.com/economy/po…
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I wish they would demonstrate the full-time capability it has to sustain hovering. Then I want to see what to the recharge of the pressure vessel looks like, how long does that take, does it need to be charging to do so? etc
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With falcon9 they replace used fuel/oxydizer with gasseous helium. However starship/superheavy uses gasseous methane/oxygen for ulage. So its needs less COPVs. But i think they use them to spin up turbines in rocket engines and for nitrogen to prevent fires.
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I like to imagine the Opportunity waking up, but with its radio damaged from being frozen, it will never hear from Earth again. So, like in the movie Wall-E, the robot slowly treads across the Martian landscape, collecting data that will never reach home.
"My battery is low and it's getting dark" —Mars Opportunity Rover
When NASA received Opportunity's final transmission on June 10, 2018, the rover didn't send the famous, heartbreaking phrase: "My battery is low and it's getting dark." The real data was far bleaker.
The actual final communication was a stream of telemetry indicating that a planet-wide Martian dust storm was choking off the sunlight needed to charge the rover's solar panels.
Opportunity had been operating on Mars for over 14 years, vastly exceeding its original 90-day mission timeline. By early June 2018, a massive dust storm began to blanket Perseverance Valley, where the rover was exploring. Unlike the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, which are powered by nuclear isotopes, Opportunity relied entirely on solar arrays to generate electricity.
The final data packet received at mission control quantified exactly how bad the situation had become.
The rover reported that atmospheric opacity—a measurement called "tau" that tracks how much sunlight is blocked—had skyrocketed past 10, the highest ever recorded on Mars. Because of this near-total darkness, Opportunity's power generation had plummeted to roughly 22 watt-hours. For context, the rover typically needed to generate hundreds of watt-hours a day to function normally and power the internal heaters required to survive freezing Martian nights.

The famous "My battery is low and it's getting dark" quote was actually a creative summary written by science reporter Jacob Margolis.
He tweeted that the raw data essentially boiled down to those exact words, and the internet immediately adopted the phrase as the rover’s heartbreaking final message.
After transmitting that final low-power alert, Opportunity's batteries drained completely, and it entered a prolonged sleep mode from which it never woke. NASA spent eight months beaming over a thousand recovery commands to the silent rover, hoping the storm would pass and the winds would eventually sweep the dust off the solar panels. The agency finally declared the mission complete on February 13, 2019, leaving the silent rover exactly where it sent its final data point.

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Heh wel it had some problems, it was trapped in soft sand. So they couldnt park it on a warm hill for winter. And at the same time the solar panels got covered by dust in a dust storm. However now and then there are cleaning events when dust devils pass the rovers. there is hope.
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How do they crash-test an extremely high-pressure COPV? I would be nervous sitting next to it.
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Generally even when when rockets fail the COPV:s survive. Those are very very strong.
So before they break you are probably already extremely dead.
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I was going to pay something yesterday in a store I had never gone before and they asked me for my physical card and I said I was using NFC, but they refused so I left...
Who carries their cards with them anymore???
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Too busy asking if we could, rather than if we should
Still cool to see, but yeah, there is very little practical use for this, outside of the downdraft and suction to the road.
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