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But the whole front half of the airplane on most airlines (LCCs excepted) has power outlets. That includes premium economy and a bunch of regular economy.

You don't need brand new gear though: A used Nikon D2x or D300 on a good lens will produce results as good as most pros would get with film back in the day. Those bodies even drive…

Tractors are allowed. The magic phrase you need to type into google to get the relevant results is "farm implement."

There's a lot more to a micro controller than the CPU. Intel's Micro controller offerings have traditionally had weak timer and ADC peripherals. Edit: Just glanced through the user…

What good are bombs and cannons if you don't have fuel for the bombers or shells for the cannons?

Just pay for precheck. It's $85 for 5 years, and realistically, yes, most of that money just goes to line the pockets of the politically connected. On the other hand, you can prett…

Because traffic calming techniques are only used on roads with 25 to 30 mph speed limits.

The quality argument in your link is all I needed to read to know that it was written by a charlatan. A Rolex is not higher quality than $20 Casio, full stop. It does not keep time…

> There's a significant background check involved which, I suspect, does more to enhance security than some millimeter wave scanner in the security line. No, there isn't. I walked …

That or you can just listen for tire noise. Even electic cars are quite loud above 25 mph, or so, so it only really becomes a problem at stop lights. Even then, the distinctive pow…

If anything, you'd expect lower fuel consumption for a given amount of power due to the reduced pumping losses.

On #1, it actually is a problem. Look at the range of the fuel cell cars that have been released or announced. None of them have even as much range as a Tesla Model S (and they cos…

HP was known for building generally good test equipment, including arbitrary waveform generators. Op is humorously referring to the fact that the test and measurement division was …

What exactly do you consider odd? As others have replied, hydrazine has a long history for RCS systems in spacecraft, and kerosene + oxidizer mixtures have long been used for propu…

Which is too bad because it is the connector used on almost all sport GPSs, many bicycle head and tail lights, as well as many generations of Canon still cameras, not to mention mo…

That might be the reason that service dogs are typically of breeds that are least likely to cause allergic reactions.

Is there any place I can find more detailed requirements for earthquake seismology stations? I feel like modern off-the-shelf parts could be used to build the signal conditioning a…

Except for the "reasonable rate" bit, which (IMHO) also includes "reasonable latency." Real UARTs can be used for, e.g., pulse-per-second inputs from GPS or atomic clocks to discip…

Yea, and the previous treatment (which only managed the disease, not cured it) was around $300k per person over their expected lifetime.

It's a valid question, not sure why you're being down voted. It nicely fills the use case of "I could totally run this project from an 80 cent microcontroller, except that it needs…

It's definitely in the USB 1.1 spec, (with some verbiage that excessive current draw on one port is not allowed to affect other ports) though they may have relaxed it later. I have…

> How would the autonomous delivery trucks you are talking about actually deliver the packages? For the first iteration, I'd have a human take the boxes from the truck to the door.…

Research is typically a profit center for the university. The standard cut (known as "overhead" in the biz) is 30% of research grants. Capital equipment (typically defined as stuff…