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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: nctnico on January 16, 2018, 03:00:36 pm ---Still it is not undoable.

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Solar roads, uBeam and Energous are not "undoable" either.


--- Quote ---My point is that all these 'debunking', 'busted', etc videos about big projects are just scaremongering, FUD and fake news (as it is called nowadays).

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No, they are calling out obvious impractical bullshit.


--- Quote ---so how hard can it be to run a pod through a vacuum tube? Try it at least!

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You'll see...

GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Anybody knows how much was the US deficit and debt in the sixties during the "space race" ? Isn't it now over eighteen million millions (108% of GDP)? Is it ok to increase both (deficit and debt) to spend in this, now? Is this experiment being private or publicly funded? And, do you even have a say on this matter?

nctnico:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 16, 2018, 09:44:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on January 16, 2018, 03:00:36 pm ---Still it is not undoable.

--- End quote ---
Solar roads, uBeam and Energous are not "undoable" either.

--- Quote ---My point is that all these 'debunking', 'busted', etc videos about big projects are just scaremongering, FUD and fake news (as it is called nowadays).

--- End quote ---
No, they are calling out obvious impractical bullshit.

--- End quote ---
Perhaps but without doing some real research into the subject, the project itself and the people behind the project a debunking video quickly becomes unfounded FUD. A first simple check is to see if a project is done by multiple companies (in parallel) or just one and where the funding is coming from.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 16, 2018, 09:44:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on January 16, 2018, 03:00:36 pm ---Still it is not undoable.

--- End quote ---
Solar roads, uBeam and Energous are not "undoable" either.

--- Quote ---My point is that all these 'debunking', 'busted', etc videos about big projects are just scaremongering, FUD and fake news (as it is called nowadays).

--- End quote ---
No, they are calling out obvious impractical bullshit.

--- End quote ---
Perhaps but without doing some real research into the subject, the project itself and the people behind the project a debunking video quickly becomes unfounded FUD. A first simple check is to see if a project is done by multiple companies (in parallel) or just one and where the funding is coming from.

ogden:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on January 16, 2018, 09:44:56 pm ---No, they are calling out obvious impractical bullshit.

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NASA and France space agency (CNES) both were skeptical about reusable rocket booster. Wording was not "impractical bullshit", but close. Yet SpaceX prove them wrong, in surprisingly short time BTW. All those who "debunked" rocket landing as obviously impractical bullshit, failed as well. So... you never know :)

With current knowledge and technology we most likely will not travel in vacuum tube, but maybe in 100 years our descendants or at least their postage - will.

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