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> > 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater big enough to fit several semitractor-trailers > These are likely US tons, so 2722kg. Earlier reports put the mass at…

5040 knots, aka nautical miles per hour. Because if you are using miles, use the only ones that matter (in aerospace).

> Or are we seriously going to say slavery isn't a problem as long as as it isn't in our own backyard? So slavery in the 1800's was a problem but we can live with the fruits of mod…

That's assuming it does not issue ATA Secure Erase to the drive - whilst WD drives of the era were using absolutely atrocious controllers for the most part, it would be enough to t…

It is pretty hard to imagine any particular set of conditions short of total planetary surface destruction that would make all extremophiles go extinct - and as long there is enoug…

> On other hand Earth is just tiny thing in solar system, which is tiny thing in galaxy which is small thing around general area which is tiny thing in great scale of things... Don…

We would do better with methane (100-year GWP 25), or even better with nitrous oxide - with added bonus that both N2 and O2 to produce it can be taken straight out of atmosphere (1…

Requires strange matter to exist in the first place, and currently the evidence does not support the hypothesis.

The lawsuits regarding unregistered copyright are and were expressly forbidden under Copyright Act of 1976 - 17 U.S.C. 411 [0] (with the specific exception for the case where all p…

To add to this, in the US, registering is also necessary to sue for infringement (since the 2019 Fourth Estate ruling in SCOTUS) and it determines if the statutory damages apply or…

Even if you had plenty of DNA material, going with multiple labs comes with a risk that one of them comes with a "no match" result - and that is something that is supposed to be di…

> It's the same in France and I think most of EU as the highest french court ruled that forced arbitration was against EU law. For consumers or businesses? Not being nitpicky here:…

.eu is classified as a ccTLD [0], not gTLD by IANA, so for the purpose of this discussion it is one - and the registrar for it (EURid) requires ciitzenship of one of the member sta…

> .io isn't a gTLD at all, it's a ccTLD belonging to British Indian Ocean Territory (which I find to be bullshit, since those islands have no permanent inhabitants). That's not str…

Speed of beamforming tracking is not the problem - what is a problem is the lack of compensation for movement of the base station (and necessary hardware for it) which is quite evi…

Where did they demonstrate it? Latest news was that they filed for a license [0] to install 5 user terminals on up to 5 Gulfstream planes - application that is still pending. [0] h…

Reproducible builds do not help to determine if the version you download via the Play Store (or, for those on enterprise devices, any pre-installed corporate stores) is the same as…

Under current laws, city council of Florence does not have extraordinary power of pardon and clemency - President of the Republic of Italy does. The declaration you linked is symbo…

Holy Roman Empire is not a factor - Dante was found guilty and exiled under the laws of the Republic of Florence. Ultimately Italy has jurisdiction as the successor state of Floren…

And it would have been avoided entirely if HN simply used relative font measures (em/rem) and allowed the user just set the damn base font size in the browser settings.

Which means that they have indeed cheapened out with a recent refresh - which is a shame. I have the cable I describe on the headphones I am quite literally wearing on my head at t…

That 6.3mm / 1/4" plug is 3.5mm + converter (you just pull it apart comes apart into two pieces), at least on 5xx and 6xx range. It's not even screwed on, just a tight friction fit…

Grados seem to suffer around their strain relief in multiple places - not just the plug, but also the earpiece. I have a set of 325s where, after the cable has failed yet again, I …

Given their construction, anyone claiming to have set of plastic-fantastic Grados (SR60, SR80) they have actually used since that period and that never needed a repair or replaceme…

Nord Stream and Yamal both transport pressurized natural gas (at 100 to 120 atm). LNG is not really suitable for long pipelines.