I feel sure they personally understand the reason for the experiment.

Adaptations aren't always good. If they can't figure out how to do the book justice, it is better that they not make it right now.

This is so well done. 👌

According to US media, it did end the war. There's nothing here to see. pack up and go home.

It's not surprising that members of ICE think this is normal, look at who they work for.

A single hallucinated citation should mean an immediate rejection of the paper, and blacklist the submitting author for a year.

I promise you, I had a printed out copy of every single paper I cited and personally checked that the citation says what I imply it says, for my two published papers.

He might even be worse if he is crazy but less senile.

How crazy is Vance? I honestly can not tell.

Significant

We need to do every other modern manufactured food too. Then we have to worry about this: xkcd.com/882/

Or cowardice.

Every museum should have a replica of every large spacecraft.

#spaceflight #museum #education thought.

I love it when space museums have exhibits that let you walk through spacecraft. E.g. the backup Skylab to the National Air and Space Museum or the Space Shuttle replica Explorer which I saw at Kennedy Space Center.

I want more of these.

The most important test flight since Skylab was STS-2, the first time humans flew on a reused crewed orbital space vehicle.

This flight is not that.

You know what I mean.

The problem of building an O'Neill cylinder out of materials minef from asteroids using robots is actually an order of magnitude simpler.

Long term, any permanent human settlement off of Earth will require solving the ecology problem: build and maintain a closed environment that can sustain humans with minimal ongoing material inputs.

This is a hard problem. The kind where I can't estimate how long it might take

If you are making fun of the idea of a filmmaker designing space stations, remember that:
1. he co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C Clarke, who *invented the communication satellite*.
2. It was designed before we had decades of experience assembling space stations.

Easy solution: nationalize them.

it's clear to me that the president exceeded his congressionally- mandated authority when he started this war. The more interesting question is when? when he attacked last year? this year? when Clinton bombed al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan in 1998?

As long as we can keep manufacturing both lithium iron phosphate batteries and photovoltaics at or below *current prices*, we have essentially set a ceiling on the price of electricity *forever*.

There is no such ceiling on the price of petroleum.

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Given that, why would you buy a new gasoline car instead of electric? Why would you install a gas furnace instead of a heat pump? Why would you spend tax money in the Middle East instead of accelerating the switchover?

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4. We could, I suppose, run out of affordable land within the transmission range of population centers. If global population levels off at 10 billion, we are fine.

5. A new large consumer of energy (e.g. LLMs) will push energy prices up until new solar farms can be built.

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Standard Caveats Apply:

1. If there is a war *here* all bets are off.

2. Prices can still exceed this theoretical ceiling for a short time while utilities are still switching over.

3. Inflation affects prices. The ceiling is in real dollars, not nominal dollars.
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There is no such ceiling on the price of petroleum, and as long as it is a limited resource with a global market, a war or an earthquake on the other side of the world can send prices upwards at any time.
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As long as we can keep manufacturing both lithium iron phosphate batteries and photovoltaics at or below *current prices*, we have essentially set a ceiling on the price of electricity *forever*.

There is no such ceiling on the price of petroleum.

When you need to charge both, you may be able to charge one car with level 2 and the other with level 1, then swap in the middle of the night.

We went ahead and put a level 2 charger in our garage for our first EV. We can easily do alternate night charging when we get a second EV next year.

We've had our first EV for a year and we haven't used DC fast charging since the first week we had it. We just used level 1 for a while.

So the shooting was happening in different neighborhoods 35 years ago. but the records show that there was gang violence then.

I got in an online argument with a right-wing person where this topic came up. They flat-out did not believe these statistics. I suppose it is hard to blame crime on blacks and immigrants if there is much less crime.

It's still amazing that every IC engine I've owned has been as reliable as they were! I've never had engine problems. Transmission problems, A/C problems, broken seat adjusters, bad software, yes. But the engines themselves have been amazingly reliable considering.