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Wouldn't (fully) burning all single-use plastics effectively make them no more long-lived and problematic than burning crude oil at sea? I know that's a low bar, but it seems like …

Firm believer that he stole the entire thing from the book Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

Why not just use a natural gas or electric heating element to heat up the air coming into the heat exchanger when it's below the operating window? In most of the US below zero is a…

I use SignNow.com - the level of subscription I need is something like $8/mo. However, I probably use it less than 1/3 of the months that I pay for. This is true for dozens of memb…

Surely there are flight patterns that can minimize this risk: ie diagnostic hover at 10ft for X seconds to rule out start up failures, followed by an ascend to 500ft, flight path m…

I believe he is not saying the site owners are traffickers but that some OF channels could be trafficker run.

Saturn's captured satellites might also be the result of incidental aerobraking or whatever you want to call smashing into a bunch of very tiny satellites during a close periapsis,…

That’s silly. A single buyer doesn’t have to buy the entire supply in one shot. They could easily say “We buy the cheapest marginal salt in any quantity until our total capacity is…

They are both collections of flawed humans. Accountability is necessary regardless of the collective noun you use.

We could maintain a few populations in labs and/or isolated areas. Inspects repopulate hella fast, so it’d be easy enough to undo such a project if we found that they were a lynchp…

The asteroid is the reaction mass. Send a solar collector and a rail gun sled that fires bits of asteroid really fast backwards.

It’s an interesting alternative history idea though - what if the disease pressure was flipped but the technology was left as is?

2/3rds power rebate on your desalination ain’t bad!

Don't forget you get 2.7% more mass per volume from the salt!

Is this really different than old media? Seems like all networks are biased - these are just more powerful, centralized networks.

Nah man you make tanks down there

Probably easier to have a hose and a balloon / reservoir of compressed air.

The more I try to read about this the more unsure I am I truly understand it, so perhaps not...

You can only slingshot in a direction another body is orbiting (to gain velocity). You're harvesting it's momentum, basically!

They are tried in the court of public opinion largely because it's just accepted that they will not be tried in a court of law, because no charges will be brought against them even…

Seems like a good opp. Make a bench seat attachment that fits into most cars, with interchangeable carseats for different aged kids. Could have a 3-wide and a 4-wide model for diff…

Moving water shouldn’t cause the same issue as stationary droplets lensing in one place.

Eventually they should have enough data to stitch all different seasons together globally, no?

No way to guarantee them the oil is still theirs / pay them for it? Probably worth a coalition ’buying’ that boat from them...

Absolutely. There are some many direct and indirect subsidies (fossil fuels, defense, farm) that actively encourage and reward actions with huge negative externalities.