Brittainicus

Brittainicus t1_j90ar4o wrote

Reply to comment by hey_you_too_buckaroo in Exclusive: Tencent scraps plans for VR hardware as metaverse bet falters by BlueLightStruct

The only thing I can think of would be augmented reality headsets to do

  1. holograms of people in meetings, which is a pretty bland feature but I could see corporate world loving it.

  2. being able to create hologram monitors such that you could have a head set rather than screens which would really then be can it do 3d well making it useful for 3d visualisation of data or designing/visualisation of 3d models and spaces. Or can it be very ergonomic and cheaper than monitors. This could in theory connect to an extremely powerful smart phone or tablet and replace office computers.

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Brittainicus t1_j28b0uf wrote

Reply to comment by -Ch4s3- in Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development. by EricFromOuterSpace

You wouldn't even need missiles you just need to pick a hole suck all the air out. You could do this with a laser array from industrial laser cutters and a lot of optical lens to focus lasers. Additionally as the rich are just sitting ducks you would have many attempts to get it right.

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Brittainicus t1_j28aq4l wrote

Reply to comment by Robot_Basilisk in Luxurious space hotels are a classic Sci-Fi trope. But American hospitality giant Hilton recently signed a deal with Lockheed Martin and Voyager Space to build the solar system’s first space hotel onboard Starlab — a space station with NASA funding — which is currently under development. by EricFromOuterSpace

Lol they wouldn't be safe at all but massive targets, if they in LEO at proper terrorist organisation could just kill them all using a laser array on earth made from a bunch of industrial laser cutters and some focal lenses. Space crafts are extremely flimsy it wouldn't take much to destroy them, additionally their location is visible to everyone so they can't hide either.

Now if they built shit underground on the moon that's a different story (pun intended).

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Brittainicus t1_j083sof wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq

/s? We hit 150% return for fairly instantaneous reactions now. We generally are expecting to do fusion sort of like a combustion engine with many short burst of on and off. If we can get a few seconds of sustainable reactions we looking at many orders of magnitude returns.

We broke even last year, it was pretty big news and all this fusion post is in response from latest break through.

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Brittainicus t1_iydheww wrote

Reply to comment by UsecMyNuts in The Decline of British Blue Collar Stories On Screen: 25 years since NIL BY MOUTH first hit screens, Gary Oldman’s film has become a relic of a time when working-class stories were major cinematic events. What happened? by Bullingdon1973

Was thinking the same thing only British media I've watched recently besides comedy shows have all revolved around normal people. I suspect this is more the writer lives in an elitist bubble.

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Brittainicus t1_iydgv2i wrote

Reply to comment by Accomplished_Aim_607 in The Decline of British Blue Collar Stories On Screen: 25 years since NIL BY MOUTH first hit screens, Gary Oldman’s film has become a relic of a time when working-class stories were major cinematic events. What happened? by Bullingdon1973

Maybe suggesting the dude in the past was just less rich. Or the rich dude didn't do it but someone normal did it for him but still took all credit.

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