The issue is not going up, it’s going over. If we only cared about the private sector getting people into space, that happened on a fully reusable vehicle twenty years ago.
The problem is getting things to stay in space. Not trying to Elon-stan here, but getting a rocket into orbit is many fold more difficult than just getting into space.
My point is that I think people are giving this project way to much credit. If they were basing it off a phone, it would be trivial to apply some textures to an existing photo or something. Hell, the specs say it has a “5000mAh long life camera” whatever the hell that means. None of it is real.
The fact that it resembles any real phone is sheer coincidence. Especially considering they don’t list a processor, just numbers that anybody can make up.
The ol’ George Mallory defense.
the T1 closely resembles the T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G
No it fucking doesn’t. Will people please stop spreading this.
The phone is just a shit photoshop job. All three cameras depicted are identical down to the pixel. Here’s one camera overlaid on another with a difference filter:
The lighting in the “render” doesn’t even make sense.
The shadows imply that the camera “bump” is actually recessed since the shadows are along the top edge. Also where are the side buttons on the reverse?
In another documentary about a seal that is starving to death:
“Hell yeah! Get that crab baybeee”
Yeah and does this include the ad-hoc economies of phone minutes in African nations?
cosmetically tweaked
It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.
My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.
I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):
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This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don’t exist on any phone.
There were so many issues
The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.
Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.
Lucky bastard.
Show me a photo of someone holding the check they received for filling a seat.
Not so much overheating as dropout. Batteries lose both energy capacity and power capacity over time. If you draw too much current from an older battery, its voltage will drop significantly and possibly prematurely shut down the phone.
Lowering peak current (by slowing down the phone), can prevent your phone from shutting off while it still has like 20% capacity left.
Considering Apple was doing battery replacements for like $60 (before bumping to $100), and this was a setting that could be turned off, I think the only real crime was enabling it by default and not properly informing users.
Dang there goes that one fun fact that I half remember at parties and have to pull out my phone to get it right.
This is the kind of equipment you need to fix your problem.
A lighter does not have the precision to do it unless you are insanely lucky.
If that’s an option for you, I’m guessing your laundry is in your garage. If that’s the case, does your breaker panel happen to be in your garage?
Installing a 240V NEMA 14-50 outlet is really not that hard, and depending on where you live, you might be legally able to install it yourself. Where I am, I can pay $60 for a permit and have a state inspector sign off on my work.
Some people don’t have access to decent tasting tap water and bottled water is expensive.
Tip: If your water tastes like chlorine, just fill a pitcher and put it in the fridge. Whatever chemicals they use will off gas overnight and it’ll taste great in the morning.
This is the only image on the gallery page that shows the entire pencil-tree.
Accurate thumbnail
As someone who boycotted the TSA for like 5 years and only took Amtrak, the tickets are not always cheaper. I mean sure, you can get across the country for like $100.
Even when I was doing Boston-Baltimore on the Acela, it was routinely slightly cheaper to fly.