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> Simply put, what is the cost involved and relative productivity gained/lost from each layout design. What about experimental designs? Without this type of information, it is diff…

Is he multi-engine rotorcraft rated? ;)

The FAA never has anything out "soon". They're currently in violation of a direct order from Congress because they're so slow.

Recently, I've been wondering why we use exhaust fans in bathrooms and not dehumidifiers. I might be way off base here, but it seems like taking conditioned air that's a little moi…

I only take cabs 5-10 times a year anymore, and never in Boston, but I've never been in a cab that pestered me with advertisements. If I found myself in one, it'd be the last ride …

Tried this, didn't work... no Linux support.

Other than friends-and-family, are there really people that invest without a hope of return?

The asteroid belt, which is positively TEEMING with possible collisions... billions of objects... yeah, we don't even bother. Ninety-nine (point nine nine nine...) times out of a h…

Agreed, but I could drop a couple K on SpaceX and it wouldn't hurt me if it disappears.... but I'm not allowed to.

Can you give some examples of places where it might be currently being unethically used?

>...I think it would be kind of embarassing for a town if they couldn't get a robust all terrain vehicle to some location within a reasonable timeframe. When I went to high school …

*shoplifting

> But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoi…

There's 2.5k people in my town and it's news here (literally) when someone is arrested shopping at the local Wal-Mart. The police have two miltary-issue Humvees, for some reason.

I didn't RTFA, so it may have been mentioned, but I recently listened to a year-old episode of RadioLab where they were talking about an apple-growing region in central China where…

I don't really buy that a world where all the work is done by robots will be an issue at all, unless it's only going to benefit the rich. I imagine it will allow people to work on …

No kidding. I'm reasonably certain I played it on a 33MHz 386 with a couple megabytes of ram.

How about this: just by a system with all Intel chipsets and you'll probably be fine.

I had (well, still have, but don't use) a w510. It worked just as well as the t61 before it (which was to say, they both did great under Linux), but it didn't have hybrid graphics.…

Same for Ubuntu Gnome. There's a few addons (or plugins, or whatever they call them) that I install to suite my preferences, but I can do a clean install + additional packages + tw…

You can't just slap any old device into an aircraft and call it done. There's huge amounts of money + time that must be invested to get it certified, and it has to be done for each…

kiba said "in a liberal society" not "about a liberal society".

I've written about this elsewhere, but I'll chime in here too. The largest radio telescope we have (the 305 meter diameter Arecibo) would need to have it's sensitivity increased by…

Declining birth rates only lead to shrinking populations when the birth rate was stable to begin with. -- Date 1: Every two people produce four offspring. Date 2: Every two people …