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This is what it looks like when you are losing: So those poor sailors in the IO are going to be there eating bad food for a while.

The UK doesn't have states or really any serious equivalent. I guess you could argue that the four constituent countries making up the UK "kind of" act like states, but both "states" and "kind of" are doing an excessive amount of work there.

If you're thinking about products like Photomath, your definition of "really high end" equations is different than mine. Very different. Can't solve those with any phone app. Those equations date from 1865. Given that B (and I think J) are vector fields and the upside-down triangle thing is...

I know!!!! A jar that held a quadrillion jelly beans would be more than 2000m on a side (more like 2300m), assuming a "squared-off" jar and that you smooshed the jelly beans a bit.

I think one of the bigger risks of the decline of STEM education is that it makes it much, much easier for misinformation to spread like wildfire through the population. And it also makes it far more difficult to have an adult conversation about actual risks and actual benefits of any...

Yeah, but it doesn't take a genius to extrapolate that a higher-powered vehicle with a throttle will be more dangerous. The fact that there is basically zero licensing, insurance, and safety regulations of any kind makes it all much worse.

Eight years ago but it is all there. https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2018/07/the-safety-of-e-bikes-in-the-netherlands_b65cf35c/21de1ffa-en.pdf

No, it would be a single bright flash in any one location which would move over the surface of the earth about 16000 mph (or 27000 kph in woke units). Kind of like an Iridium Flare, an effect that already exists (well, existed since there are no more of those satellites) and is about as bright...

The energy one of these mirrors would put on the ground would be about 10mW per square meter. Full on sunlight at the equator is about 1 kW per square meter. So to make it as bright as the sun you'd need 100,000 satellites all working together. The reflective material on the inside of a chip...

Right, they can just haul one up there and install it...

Just for a straight-up skinny on that satellite and what it can do... The satellite is about 18m in size (so about 60 feet in freedom units). It will be able to light up an area about 5km across on the surface for between 30 and 60 seconds. The area illuminated will be up to five times as...

What I am saying is that those thrusters would be irrelevant. Anything in most any orbit (except a geosynchronous one, which wouldn't be at all practical for such an application) is eventually going to be below the horizon of any given location. The lower the orbit the more quickly that will...

No, I can't imagine that because that is not how orbits or thrusters work.

I know it is so terrible... Too easy dude, just too damned easy...

It is sad that so many MAGA people are precious little snowflakes who need a safe space where their fee-fees won't get hurt.

AQI holding steady at 200. Where you smoke a joint to clear your lungs... That is a pyrocumulous cloud blocking the sun. Some nearby locations briefly had AQIs over 2000.

There is no political will because nobody trusts either the government or industry to be honest about the technology. And given their historical track record and the insane crap they have pulled, only a sucker would ever trust them. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-green-run.htm...

Oh yeah, just a reminder about why we are arguing about this stuff:

Just saying... So the question I would ask as an investor in nuclear power technology today goes something like this: In 2035, PV solar will likely generate electricity at about $0.01/kWh. Batteries will likely be approximately $20/kWh. How will your products compete at those prices? You...