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Arithmetic underflow is not a bad explanation. How you interpret is that it's pop science misinterpretation. Temperature is necessarily defined for systems in equilibrium. Systems …

I used to live in Rome in the late 90s. As many as tourists as there were, and there were many, the volume must have doubled in twenty years. Last time I visited, I felt an overwhe…

What makes you think these folks - ultimately protesting poverty - can afford to visit other places?

I'm not going to argue for or against nationalization; I'm just pointing out why Boeing will be shielded from reality by our government

They didn't. They bailed out the banks and let the managers keep their bonus

Why would it matter? Its not food.

Its not obvious (to me) that they need to rest. They're small enough not to need it. The energy to fly those distances, however...

This was to be expected. Boeing is vital to national security not because of the aircraft it makes, but the supply chains it sustains. As long as the USD has any value, Boeing will…

Isn't that what the big *nix vendors said about GNU/Linux - the software stack is too sophisticated to replace - in the early 2000s? To this day I prefer to work on my Fuel than an…

Not only that, but the thermal stress of pouring molten iron on wet, cold and cracked stone.... call me skeptical

Thank you. I was extremely skeptical that they used molten iron.