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there's a book on this, "How Boeing Defied the Airbus Challenge: An Insider's Account" I don't know if it lays out the safety math but it goes very deep on twin engine safety and s…

I'm not commenting on "permaculture bad" or anything like that. I've studied it and it's very interesting and I do think it's a good use of our water. That said, in the western us,…

I like this sort of thing but in Oregon (and I think most places) you can't just create a lake and use it for irrigation without permission. even collecting rainwater is considered…

I've watched a lot of Munro (and even bought one of their retail reports for fun) and the thing that most bothered me that looked like tesla bias was when he was doing side-by-side…

"...it is a risky business for a senior politician to put on public record an estimate of future events which, if wide of the mark, would provide ammunition to his adversaries. Sim…

that's pretty meta, the original book "Men Against Fire" likely had major parts based on embellished or falsified interviews https://books.google.com/books?id=azoGuGbwJK0C&pg=PT8&l…

I think you're comparing tesla global sales to gm us sales. gm global sales are about 8M/year

I have no idea about the interference claim, but incidental radiation within an ISM band is allowed to a great degree, that's the idea of ISM. The device may have been tuned to swi…

here's James Mattis's take on the difference between civilian courts and military courts: > ...remember that the Uniform Code of Military Justice is established under the U.S. Cons…

vertical winglets are ways to get more lift:drag out of a wing that's constrained by some width limit (airport gate spacing) or an existing wing design that you don't want to redo.…

> BMI can someone parse those units? BMI is usually presented as kg/m^2 edit - it's just a typo, the rest of the paper uses the right units