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And when you are up there, you will want to stay up if you can, as each dip into the well costs you a ton of money.

I'd love to see that result, purely for the hilarity of watching the people I share a house with, who voted for Brexit, explode at the idea of the UK government not policing an ext…

like Republic of Ireland joining the United Kingdom. Or Arthur rising and reinstating Camelot in England's hour of need. Or Nessie being discovered, then rampaging south to destroy…

> a good and not entirely unpopular solution Where and for whom?

Depends on how the field moves relative to the iron. If it expands then contracts, which seems highly likely, the overall effect on magnetizing the iron could be surprisingly low, …

Vice really needs to hire some proofreaders.

The magnetic field will tend to concentrate in the iron, meaning it shouldn't propagate as far. Same as using Mu metal for magnetic shielding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-met…

The USA has high punishments for murder but less then 50% of murder investigations are solved. Germany has much lower punishments for murder, but around 90% of murder investigation…

Hey, numbers and letters are hard. FCC, FAA, 100 reports per month, 100 complaints per day. Same thing, surely. Besides drones are bad, so exaggerating and misrepresenting is moral…

> The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes That seems amazingly unlikely.

> “Each month, the FAA receives more than 100 reports of drone sightings by pilots, citizens, and law enforcement,” Drones interfering with manned aircraft or emergency services is…

I love the concept behind the chameleon pasted with money. Though I do feel a bit sorry for the chameleon. It probably wasn't too impressed.

I think there will be two things. One is economics, fetching asteroids could be very big business, and the other is political, space will be viewed as freedom of a sort, given the …

>That clearly didn't work in that case, did it? If you don't think that they were actually putting forward a tale to be believed in the first place, but were signalling that they d…

It is economic to move massive stuff about in open space, which is what you need for an economy to attract people. The gravity well is a huge cost. You can make a profit by sending…

By the end of this century I suspect there will be more than a million people living off earth, with the majority in orbitals. In about 200 years or so, I wouldn't be at all surpri…

Why not?

The pizza delivery driver probably wants their job more than a stack of pizza and often provides their own vehicle. And robbing armored bank trucks involves attacking people, there…

That does not work very well in politics, or indeed many other areas of life. People are very good at acting dumb to avoid blame. Hanlon's razor is a method of being polite, rather…

Part of the reason they are slow-walking Trump's pronouncements on trans people in the military, is that after getting rid of 'don't ask don't tell', the military will have wanted …

I was just working from the principle that lightweight ground drones containing pizza will get nicked and flying pizza will get shot down and nicked, but it isn't fair to use weapo…

I thought about how to design pizza delivery drones and came to the conclusion that perhaps the best approach would be to make a very heavy armored tank, with a pizza oven built in…

Sounds similar in meaning to the Yiddish word 'chutzpah', which was once defined by Leo Rosten as; "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws…

The two ideas aren't mutually exclusive. There is then the audience that knows it is all bollocks from the start, many of whom treat it as a massive in-joke that they can take part…

>That would be way too subtle for the common folk. Are you channeling H. L. Menken? I think Putin is a comedian and two things I have noticed about Russian humour are firstly, alwa…