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"You May Dispense with the Pleasantries Commander. I'm here to put you Back on Schedule." -Head of Imperial Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeOmilysl54

> taking a cold shower in the winter mornings because that way cycling to work doesn't feel so cold Adrenaline works better than caffeine.

Trading money for money, instead of labour for money.

Yeah and it will likely be the cost of a brand new combine, the utility of which is to harvest the monocrop arrangements that will feed millions of people during its operational li…

Though most of their deaths were instantaneous (if it was large meteor) - the other half of the world would have been around for a few more seasons, before the food chain was rapid…

Sulfur dioxide from a supervolcano eruption would ironically not be considered a disaster if it were to reflect sunlight for a few years. Since we cannot arrange for a supervolcano…

"Its wide band gap of 3.4 eV affords it special properties for applications in optoelectronic,[8][9] high-power and high-frequency devices. For example, GaN is the substrate which …

Imagine dozens of consecutive unmanned launches boosted into orbit by the same 2-5 Boosters each with only a payload of fuel meant for the large tank of Starship.

Yeah I remember on the Bob Lazar Joe Rogan episode he kept saying it was not metal and made of some ceramic. But within 2 hrs in he had to correct himself by saying there's no way …

Indeed it doesn't, hence "expected". The concept of extracting helium as a byproduct of a reaction with high energy output is akin to taking the lye from wood ash and processing it…

Isn't helium expected to be a byproduct of commercial fusion?

I enjoy solitude because I've always had this fear of being a burden to someone else. I take pride in my self sufficiency because of this - I seek to be a provider, not a consumer.…

The female body is our only means of citizen production. Genetic and resource input is all that's required of the male. As such, the female mind is wired to instinctually minimize …

Maybe not as many batteries as we think. Local generation (Photovoltaics or turbines) set up nearby the channel where water will move uphill could run the pumps directly, without m…

I've seen several of these "F-35 is a failure" articles over the past few years, and I have a new theory about it. Making the opposition think you're weak is a strategy. Straight f…

Money is other people's time.

The Hyperloop also can only exist with government cooperation. Stringing together such a technology across multiple state (or nation) boundaries will require much more collaborativ…