DDE

...not gotten funded in the first place. Unsustainable stunts are an easier sell with politicians.

...and we just had a 'soft' office shutdown. Going to remote working on a team-by-team basis.

So that we can avoid the fate of Italy, or much worse...

In comes Leonid Bershidskyi, a titan of Kremlinology. Can he for once make charitable conclusions about the country in the bottom-most pine? Thought so. It is, of course, impossible for a country with a GDP the size of Italy to conduct a similar number of tests as Italy.

And Shurik said "Let there be light"

You have a LOT of space for expansion @KerikBalm, get the bridge demolition charges. The heavy ones.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3893/1

So you're a 40-year-old female who has just tested positive for COVID-19 and are hospitalized. Do you: a) Enjoy the unexpected vacation, or b) Get bored, escape the hospital and head home, likely through all the key subway hubs, while taking zero precautions. It's (b). *sigh* I guess the never-used Article 236 isn't a sufficient deterrence.

Now, now, some people might need more clues.

Speaking of that... which of these two is the better troop transport method?

Cheers! *downs glass* So I'm now officially on both Vitamin C and Vitamin D supplements. And all the while, they will be known as Generation Alpha. Not joking. That's what the high and mighty call it.

Oh, you jest, but

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE, FELLOW HIKOKOMORI!

https://pcr.news/stati/test-na-koronavirus-dlya-rossii/ Vektor's PCR test is a hundred test less sensitive, viral load-wise, than most virus testing kits, and certain components of the test process are not included in the kit and very broadly specified, leading to several cases of false negatives; there's also an anonymous tip that it may generate false-positives on at least one other coronavirus. The problem is that, due to BSL requirements, the watchdog and its sole testing kit supplier have a monopoly that keep at least one existing and several upcoming, likely superior kits, by both military-run centers and private companies.

See you again in two weeks )

Yeah, I suppose they were a bit overconfident in their AIP. The problem with those capabilities is that they've driven size up quite a bit - close to where the divers may want smaller craft in order to get inside enemy harbour. The French understood this, so their proposal, at only twice the displacement, sacrificed armament for two two-seat 'wet' SDVs. Ditto the actually built Soviet subs (the Sirena SDV, while deliberately torpedo-sized and torpedo-shaped, does not have a warhead): It's for this reason one is far more likely to see standard subs outfitted with a lock-out chamber and some sort of a 'wet' (unpressurized) propulsion vehicle like the SEAL SDV, or smaller. Except, plot twist, the SEALs have spent the last decade trying to get a 'dry' design to ride to the target in (relative) comfort: http://www.hisutton.com/Dry_Combat_Submersible.html http://www.hisutton.com/SEALs + USSOCOM next generation sub UOES3.html

Alright, I'll pilfer another Twitter thread for takes. If you've washed your hands and then used a hot-air dryer, you're worse off than if you hadn't washed your hands. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-bacterial-horror-of-the-hot-air-hand-dryer-2018051113823 Indonesia gets their top man on the job - Dr. Corona Rintawan. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1640731/world Pneumonia cases in Moscow up 39% year-on-year, prompting plenty of speculation. https://www.rbc.ru/society/13/03/2020/5e62695e9a794761618f1a7b?utm_source=amp_full-link

Today in people succumbing to the "WhY dOn'T yOu Do SoMeThInG!?" syndrome: "Symbolic act" *headdesk*

So, let's take this Italian specops submarine concept. Its entire hull is a series of toroidal oxygen tanks at 350 atm, used to run the diesels underwater in an early and crude version of Air-Independent Power - practical AIP installations use a Stirling engine instead, but. in a similar manner, requiring an oxidizer tank. This construction method was also claimed to be 5 times stronger than a simple single hull. Can it do ISRU? Specifically, can the oxygen from the electrolysis be used to replenish the tanks under field conditions, and can all of this be powered by the diesel-generator(s) of a small submarine?

Don't worry, somehow, he will survive. *looks guiltily to the freshly-bought extra-big pack of toilet paper* Meanwhile, a tragedy in three parts. @sevenperforce Also, anyone who's heard the tale of COVID-2019 in South Korea.

And a few more posts of mixed relevance: This makes me really reconsider my air humidifier.

Ah, I thought they were trying to keep you working on-site. None of the words permitted on this forum are fit to describe the willful concealment of an infection in the workplace.

Also, Moscow schools are switching to optional attendance, and Deripaska the aluminum magnate has called for a proper border shutdown. Alarmingly, the Moscow government announcement included the introduction of isolation requirement for all individuals in the same dwelling... implying that previously this was not done, and this has lead to at least one confirmed case. Sadly this is not the case. Neither WHO proclamations nor the US SoE (I imagine that's what we're looking at) has no legal bearing; the new State of Emergency would be the 34th active one, and the US SoE regime is too neutered and militarily/outwards-focused to be particularly useful anyway. Meanwhile, for comparison while we are on the topic, the Moscow government has just reiterated that the outbreak itself is a viable force majeuere.

ILS (the old Proton sales front) receives US State Department permission to promote Soyuz launch services (both the rocket and the ship). https://tass.ru/kosmos/7955389