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Ward Maps in Cambridge, MA?

This is an Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) advisory: https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=28&adv_dat...

It's a little awkward, but it makes sense in the context of determining an energy budget or the daily operating cost on grid power.

The original design was meant to use 3x turbojets, not turboprops.

Which, as it turns out, was written by the same person as features in the OP, Randy Linden

In an episode released a few years back, Omega Tau spoke with two individuals who had worked on the DEW Line back in the day: https://omegataupodcast.net/248-dew-sage-and-the-f-106…

To be fair, the Cessna 208 is a significantly larger aircraft than your run-of-the-mill Cessna 172 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_208_Caravan

That's wild, thanks for sharing. I'd have to imagine it's served as some level of inspiration for Simon Stålenhag's work. Ex: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilderbig/by_procession_1…

Tangentially related: Boston Dynamics' BigDog, which utilizes hydraulic actuators, would constantly leak hydraulic fluid while operating, be it through normal weepage or catastroph…

R.U.R is a fantastic work that unfortunately has been perpetually shrouded in obscurity, despite its outsized popular influence. I highly recommend reading it.

In terms of the NIF's broader goal, as opposed to the specific goals for their ICF work, the NIF is meant to keep nuclear physicists fresh on research relevant to nuclear weapons d…

+1, I've smoked my KitchenAid multiple times making this recipe but the results are well worth it

They actually did, as part of DARPA's Warrior Web program [1]. They ultimately spun off the program to Ekso Bionics as a consequence of the Google acquisition back in 2014 [2]. [1]…

There was a comment thread on the John Carmack/JPEG post discussing the Internet Archive's use of JPEG 2000 to store archival images of scanned books, could be a tangent stemming f…

The section discussing (inter/intra)agency turf battles reminded me of a recent article discussing how the pandemic has led to some significant reevaluation of what the role and pu…

Correct; optical, not SAR. Should have made that clear in my original post.

This is likely the best recent example (from last year): https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29634/trump-tweets-int...

A similar controversy exists in the Arab world about what to call the Persian Gulf, where the names "Arabian Gulf" or simply "The Gulf" are preferred. [1] Amusingly (but perhaps no…

Boston Dynamics tackled this problem with the SandFlea robot ca. 2010, albeit in a single axis while exploiting the intermediate axis theorem. You can see it in action @ 0:17 in th…

Many don't realize that for the first ~decade of its existence, BD was not the robotics/hardware business, but rather developed and sold human simulation software. Their main produ…

Shoutout to https://www.hfqpdb.com/ for collecting the myriad coupons Harbor Freight sends out in one centralized, easy to use database.

The converse of Maslow's hammer is such a common scenario that Wera actually sells a ratchet designed to be used as a hammer (think mechanic working under a car): https://www-us.we…

As someone who is fortunate enough to be in a line of work that allows me to (mostly) fulfill my normal responsibilities from the comfort of home with no immediate threat to my job…

The short answer is that higher speeds come at a steep price. The relationship between velocity and the power required to overcome drag at that velocity is cubic, so that large bus…