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[Reelya]

Here's a thing they were talking about a few years ago, it's reality now.

https://games.slashdot.org/story/18/01/09/0158216/nvidias-geforce-now-windows-app-transforms-your-cheap-laptop-into-a-gaming-pc

Nvidia is running games on a server, live streaming the feed to your PC or laptop, and getting input from your device. So you can effectively run high-end games without owning high-end hardware or needing to do any sort of installation. Run any game on any hardware, as long as it has the streaming app ported to it, and you have a decent connection.

[smjjames]

Theres gotta be a catch somewhere though.....

[Egan_BW]

I remember there was a service that did that, years ago. Sure, you can run any game on any hardware provided a good internet connection, but the latency is probably a bit painful for things like FPSes.
Not really a new idea. But maybe Nvidia will pull it off better than before.

[PTTG??]

Don't know whether this would go into the space thread or here. Maybe I'll post it in both places.

SpaceX may have failed to get an expensive government sat into orbit. Ouch, this is gonna hurt their reputation for a while. At least until they can find out what went wrong.

It's light on details due to it being a classified mission and the main source being WSJ.

Lacking familiarity with the topic, I can't be sure, but if I was trying to launch a stealth payload, I'd make it look like it failed to achieve orbital insertion.

And don't say "there's no stealth in space." Sure, if your enemy has awesome telescopes scattered throughout the solar system and there's no spacecraft other than your own, then there's no stealth. As soon as you add space debris, civilian traffic that vastly outnumbers the military traffic, and noisy natural phenomena, then there are ways to hide things, or at least add uncertainty.

[Egan_BW]

The best kind of stealth is the kind where you shoot all the enemy's telescopes so they can't see you.

[Max™]

"Sir, I have an object at 73° 12°!"
'Can you give me an id?'
"Hmmm, it seems to be a blindingly bright laser source?"
'ANOTHER? FUCK!'

[Egan_BW]

Blindingly? Nah, what you want is "meltingly"

[Max™]

Well then we'd be discussing free electron lasers and shit, which is a whole other batch of fun.

[wierd]

No no.. Hard gamma ray laser, or no deal.   They dont even know they have been blinded by it, until the next day!

[Max™]

How will you aim your fancy gamma beam?

[wierd]

Same as any other invisible laser. (Though, what I am suspecting you mean is, how do you FOCUS your fancy gamma beam   The answer is that you dont, you use an ordered sacrificial crystalline gain medium to produce the beam already in a coherent state, via native internal bias of the source material.)

[Max™]

No I mean aim, being able to rotate a mirror turret is handy and can be done faster than rotating the entire mechanism, but that sounds like a bomb pumped laser, and at that point why not go casaba-howitzer?

[wierd]

Well, RANGE, obviously!

[Max™]

Launch the melon over there, POOMPH, range shmange.

[MrRoboto75]

Raspberry

There is only one man who would dare give me the raspberry.