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“南港-3”型灵能采集船，于10年前投产，由于设计成功，之后便被大批量建造；在灵能采集方面它依然使用传统的“冲吸”设计——逆行冲入灵能洪流之中，打开船头的灵能滤嘴，截获并收集灵能。在动力上，它安装了“峨眉-5”生命能量反应堆（就是用灵能加工生产的），驱动一对主桨和一对副桨，动力强劲，可以在美丽而危险的灵能洪流中长时间航行；反应堆会和空间中弥漫的稀薄灵能产生排斥反应，从而实现自由升降和移动。其实这些船刚建造完毕时是蓝色的，但是船长们喜欢把自己的摆渡船漆成红色——象征丰收和好运，相信这能让自己采集到更多灵能。

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The "Nangang-3" psychic energy collection ship was put into production 10 years ago. Due to its successful design, it was built in large quantities afterwards. In terms of psychic energy collection, it still uses the traditional "rushing and sucking" design - rushing into the psychic energy torrent in reverse, opening the psychic filter at the bow, intercepting and collecting psychic energy. In terms of power, it is equipped with the "Emei-5" life energy reactor (which is produced by psychic energy processing), driving a pair of main propellers and a pair of auxiliary propellers. It has strong power and can sail for a long time in the beautiful and dangerous psychic energy torrent; the reactor will produce a repulsive reaction with the thin psychic energy that permeates the space, thereby achieving free lifting and moving. In fact, these ships were blue when they were first built, but the captains like to paint their ferry boats red - symbolizing harvest and good luck, believing that this will allow them to collect more psychic energy.

source: Fan Wennan's Artstation page

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The first details of C949, a supersonic airliner project, have been quietly unveiled by Chinese state-owned aerospace giant Comac, signalling its ambitions to dominate the skies with the radical new jet that could redefine global air travel.

In a recent academic paper, Comac engineers revealed the blueprint of a 1.6-Mach airliner designed to fly further and much more quietly than the retired Concorde – a feat that could position China at the forefront of a 21st century supersonic renaissance.

A team led by Wu Dawei, Comac’s award-winning aerodynamicist, said in a March 14 paper published in the journal Acta Aeronautica Sinica that the project aimed to achieve what engineers have chased for decades: a 50 per cent range boost over the Concorde (11,000km or 6,800 miles vs 7,200km or 4,500 miles) while slashing sonic booms to 83.9 perceived level in decibels (PLdB), comparable to the noise level of a hairdryer.

This reduction in noise, down to one-twentieth of the Concorde’s thunderclap-like boom by intensity, aims to bypass regulatory barriers that have long banned overland supersonic flights.

The C949 will compete with similar projects from other countries, such as Nasa and Lockheed Martin’s X-59, with the winner rewriting the rules of global aviation, according to the researchers.

The C949’s design features a shape-shifting fuselage with a curved “reverse-camber” midsection that weakens shock waves, delaying their transition into violent booms.

Western media outlets, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley are belatedly coming to the same conclusion: years of falling asset prices and cost of living has made China the most competitive economy in the world.

Our top government officials, industry leaders, and columnists were predicting a collapse in China, because they completely misunderstood the long-term policy implications of falling costs across a modern economy.

China was the only major economy to see long-term deflation in recent years, and the costs of housing, commercial rent, food, electricity, travel, and education were pushed lower because of soaring industrial productivity and efficiency gains.

Now China is reaping the benefits of building a ruthlessly cost-competitive economy that dominates in most areas of manufacturing, raw materials sourcing, high technology, logistics, education, and health.

guesses:

• Tesla craters because his ability to bullshit investors is the only thing keeping that stock supported. Possible short term bump if the nazi liability is seen as being cleansed from the brand by his death
• SpaceX improves because he stops interfering with his own stupid decisions
• Twitter gets sold off, winding up with whichever billionaire bids the most for it. somebody backed by Blackrock or another huge capital faction
• who gives a fuck about The Boring Company

While the US and Europe prepare for still higher food inflation, prices are generally falling across the BRICS economic bloc. Now in sugar markets, new BRICS members Indonesia, Egypt, and the UAE enjoy lower prices than consumers in G7 countries.

The natural resources economics of the BRICS nations are typically the low-cost global producers of key commodities, including in agriculture, energy, and mining.

The trade volumes of BRICS countries inside the bloc are rising sharply, and this trend is leading to shortages and higher prices for consumers in G7 countries.

We already have seen this phenomenon across oil, wheat and grains, coffee, and chocolate. Now it's playing out in global sugar markets: Brazil is the world's leading producer of sugar, and is by far the world's lowest-cost producer. Brazil's imports to fellow BRICS member countries are rocketing higher as Brazil's production is also at records.

But the US and Europe relies on higher-cost producers, who are struggling to meet demand and suffering from poor crop conditions. While costs in the US are ripping higher, consumers in China and other BRICS enjoy lower prices.

Jason Hickel: Why is Palestine at the center of the climate and colonial struggle? How are capitalism and the ecological crisis linked? Who really benefits from the exploitation of resources in the Global South? At the Transnational Institute's Ignite Festival in 2024, Jason Hickel argues that the Global North—the “Imperial Core”—is responsible for the excess emissions and resource extraction driving the climate breakdown. He believes that achieving economic democracy and sovereignty in the South is essential to dismantling the colonial power structures at the root of both climate change and imperial exploitation.