Think of transmitting power using a lightbulb and a solar panel. The tesla method was beaming its power in all directions, like a lightbulb, so a solar panel placed elsewhere would only be catching a tiny amount of the transmitted power. Very inefficient. So instead, we use something more like a laser- we get a collumnated beam of energy we can send straight to our panel, which is much less wasteful. Of course, actually using a laser and a solar panel aren’t ideal because they’re both pretty inefficient, so we use a lower frequency we can work with more efficiently, like microwaves. We still incur some heavy losses doing this though. This also explains why we don’t beam power away from areas with plentiful renewables, line losses in normal grids makes exporting energy to somewhere across the globe infeasible, and the costs of enough space infrastructure to beam power around are way higher than the low return you’d be able to get by converting energy to microwaves and back twice. In fact, the inefficiencies from this process are bad enough that it already makes space based solar economically challenging. Maybe when starship becomes operational and launch costs drop another order of magnitude, it’ll be viable, but until then I think our photovoltiacs are better placed on the ground.

What is happening in that image

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Incredible bait and switch

My biggest wants are to have a body that at least works. Gimme garunteed function out of my stupid organs, which is admittedly a given in the prompt but ***FUCK. *** I’d honestly keep my probable autism, as I got exceptionally lucky and managed to find a career niche that effectively monetizes my neurodivergency (which is SUCH A FUCKED STATEMENT), but my ADHD is much more of an impediment to my personal and professional life- I’d turn that down considerably. Past that, if I’ve got the opportunity- I’m tired of my frail POS frame, and have a disposition towards giant dragon men. Give me durable scales, enormous muscles, and practical wings so I can help my friends, family, and I make reality match our dreams without fucking my skin up, needing a ton of help, or paying morbillions to just keep a vehicle OLDER THAN I AM insured. Peak male performance is being able to fly groceries home and fix your friend’s shit for them no matter HOW big the appliance is. I’m gay as fuck and want the biggest dick physically sustainable, but I’d be willing to accept NO cock if meant meaningful independence and the ability to help others with major electroni-mechani-fluidi-cal infrastructure issues single-handedly and with ease. For now, I’m just going to have to pay out my ass for safe equipment or skilled labor that can do what I can’t. Modern society is a technological onion of such magnitude that human ability, physical or otherwise, is only able to maintain a vanishingly tiny amount of it, and the tools that enable one to cover a reasonable amount of it are only getting more expensive and obsfuscated. Fight the enshittification of the wheels that turn society by turning yourself into a horrifically sexy monster, preferably one descended from ideas that have been playing humanity since we discovered methods of writing our nightmares down.

Watching the frontflap work to keep control in the lower atmosphere, lit by something burning out of frame, after seeing a third of it evaporate and get blown off by hypersonic plasma. Beats the supersonic flips flight 1 gave us as the most metal thing I’ve seen a rocket do

https://tenor.com/view/decommi-decommission-gif-24408233

Looked convincing at first, but it felt too clean- Then at 7 seconds in, you can watch a white panel clip straight through the door and windshield lol

And that’s why we sanitize our inputs

As somebody who’s used blender for years and experimented with the denoisers, I thought so too. The inputs you usually give denoisers are the rendered image, the albedo of every pixel, and the normals. Denoisers can struggle with reflective surfaces because the albedo and normals match that of the surface, not what’s being reflected in it, and so offer no real help to the network- which would explain why this single spot is where it showed up. I only commented because I found it funny. It’s such a tiny detail, it doesn’t detract from the art at all, and I only noticed it because I’m used to hunting for stuff like that in my own renders. Having everything turn out perfect except for one stupid thing you didn’t notice until after you posted it is extremely relatable to me

Really impressive modeling and texturing! The only question I have is why the branding on the fridge looks AI generated, did a denoiser disagree with the reflective surface? It’s such a small detail, but everything else is so well executed it jumped out to me lmao

Tired, mostly. Everything I depend on seems like it’s wearing out, falling apart, or actively sabotaging itself. I have to fight manipulative assholes, corporate greed, and plain entropy decay just to exist. I’m tired of every corner of my life being under attack from something.