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Flying at up to Mach 16 could become reality with UCF's developing propulsion system You've got to love a name like "hypersonic oblique detonation wave engine". 🚀

That's also the reason why the Arctic is becoming increasingly militarized. Well that and the newly available natural resources on/under the Arctic floor.

We're becoming a bananas republic.

I think though that we wanted to license manufacturing much earlier if we hoped to scale this out. Just giving away leftover doses doesn't really address the need.

All developed countries, not all countries. It's around 27%. The US is still ahead on per-capita emissions.

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Okay, so why does the 1950s moon lander have fins, hmm? 😉

Is it just me, or does anybody else think Elon Musk built that because he's a fan of 1950s sci-fi?

It's a 5-minute walk from my house to the Pub and it's a 45-minute walk from the Pub to my house. The difference is staggering.

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The woman below replied, “You are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude.” “You must be an engineer,” said the balloonist. “I am,” replied the woman, “How did you know?” “Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help so far.” The woman below responded, “You must be in Management.” “I am,” replied the balloonist, “but how did you know?” “Well,” said the woman, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it’s my fault!” ---- An oldie but still true.

There is a school of thought that this is a good thing. Slow change means it's not disruptive to society or the economy, and you have an opportunity to change course when things start to go wrong. Revolutions usually make things worse for everybody.

Catch them as they fall. Let's start at 50 meters.

I think it's just another type of superstitious thinking, like horoscopes or lucky clothes. Many people just aren't good at risk analysis, so they turn to superstition. They get away with it because most of the serious diseases are now rare.

Perhaps a feasible approach may be to use the Xoreos code base for the NWN2 data load back end then write a 3D game engine interface in Unity. But you'd need a team of developers to pull that off.

I've come to view inflation as a form of taxation. It's a tax upon savings, loans, and pensions. Is it taxation without representation? The Fed seems to control it, rather than Congressional representatives.

Our city (Seattle) just announced we reached 70% of the populace at least partially vaccinated. Crushing it here at least.

Safe to say, the new Aussie law isn't Cricket.

I for one welcome our new demon overlord.

If the generator is more carbon-efficient than a car, then this actually makes a lot of sense in terms of enabling an electric-vehicle transportation future. Using diesel to charge EVs in the outback is greener than you think