Depends.

They’re gps guided 155mm artillery rounds. The electronics and guidance in them reliably survive the 50,000 g-force hell of being shot out of a cannon and then land (when used correctly) within a meter or 2 of their intended target over the course of a 20+km distance.

God knows how much was invested over the years to develop the system, and even once that’s recovered there is still an impressive amount of high precision manufacturing required to make a single one.

I’m positive they’re probably making $30k+ per round, but if it does its job is it worth it?

Another way to look at it is as any civilisation gets sufficient technology they begin simulating entire universes, to better understand their own.

That means we’re either the OG universe and haven’t figured out how to run simulations of that size yet (so no simulated universes exist yet), or there is some chain of universes above us who are likely also simulated until you get to the OG universe.

Considering everything in our universe seems to follow a set of base rules (speed of light, attraction between masses, etc), I’m partial to thinking of those as essentially input variables prior to our sim being run.

Just wait till they find out about regular paper printers…

Genuinely confused by your first statement (in particular effective altruism). What does that have to do with the board?

Not an attack, just actually clueless.

Proxmox 8!

I truly have neglected my homelab. Think I’m running 5… 😬

Don’t worry, I did the same thing

🦆

I mean they could easily injection mould comparable parts. I imagine this is more of a numbers game.

How big is the market for wildly impractical supercar-esque vehicles? Will mass production reduce cost enough? Will people buy them if they lack similar performance to actual supercars? How does the brands established reputation and image fit in?

It’s pretty easy to see why the bean counters would shut down tooling up a whole productionisation effort for a product that likely won’t make the company money.

That’s my hunch anyway. If there was money in it, they’d be doing it. Instead you get cars like the supra and skyline, which can absolutely be turned into supercar level performance if people are willing, but otherwise is a decent off the shelf sports car.

I’m away for work at the moment. Reply / message me in 72 hours and I should be able to invite you.

Chain shouldn’t be a problem. The precision comes from the motors, not the link size.

You’ll need to make sure your tension system can take up the slack you’ll create at 200c though, as well as considering how you’ll deal with backlash.

Good luck!

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You’d be better off talking to a brick wall than commenting on reddit on anything but small subreddits and expecting a reply.

Feels good to be seen here, and like you’re actually contributing.