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Interesting. Wondering if I should take note of it in case the much-touted Youtube block happens. When a company supports video streaming in your country with no way to get revenue from it from two years, it's really difficult to deflect questions about its motives... that said, this means I am one of the reasons you're watching this many ads!

Camouflage, huh? (there's a more common variant with the T-1000, but this one's a deeper reference)

Looks familiar enough

And once they look like Summer Glau, you know you've lost.

TFW you end up as the Secret Santa to your own subordinate, a pathological Potterhead (who wore a Slytherin pin to a client's office) and read the Silmarillion...

The Monument to the Conquerors of Space was erected the proper rocket way

Careful, before long, someone might mention "hyperreality" and "simulacra". Whoops.

Senator thinks bill that provisions of the new Earth remote sensing bill that effectively ban government entities from purchasing non-Roscosmos ERS data may not be such a brilliant idea, proposes removal of clause https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1714 https://tass.ru/ekonomika/19491025 Because creating a monopoly is an interesting way to "build an ERS data market"

I'm more interested in whether ERA and firing ports are compatible at all. Omitting exotic variants such as fixed firing port weapons like the M231.

How do explosives "flow" around obstacles? I'm specifically wondering what would happen if an ERA brick went off next to a rifle stuck out of a vehicle firing port. Let's omit the fact that ERA-equipped vehicles tens to have the firing ports plated over.

Japanese media in general seems to be quite stubborn in its research in places where nearly everyone else would've winged it.

"Yes, I have a radio in my tophat, how could you tell?" The wearable gadgets of 1922.

Garrett STAMP You take this and remove all the "unimportant" bits: Well, considering one of the earlier competitors was a literal flying saucer, this isn't too weird.

The Orlan-10 UAV uses filament-reinforced duct tape to strengthen the attachment of the wing to the fiselage. ZALA-421-16 uses masking tape to attach its parachute line. Source: "Chronicles of a UAV operator" telling another channel to not ridicule a... Blue Force drone held together by duct tape - https://t.me/xronikabpla/6057

That doesn't exactly scream "affordable seat structure material".

59,6% of Argentinians vote for lifetime delicensing of doctors who prescibe homeopathic remedies. "Natural" and folk remedies can only be recommended without charging the patient for the appointment. https://panorama.pub/news/v-argentine-vracej-vypisyvausih-gomeopatiu?vk Satire, unfortunately. "In the next referendum, the citizens of Argentina will decide whether predatory microlenders should be declared terrorists and prosecuted with extreme prejudice"

To be fair, he and Bill Nye are basically street corner Scientism preachers. It's not a good style of pop-sci. Don't think I've thrown this in here yet: simulation theory is creationism for avowed atheists.

There's at least three consequences that some people entertain. One, you've got people trying to incite a glitch in the Matrix just to prove it exists. Two, you've got people trying to "escape" the Matrix, whatever that means (usually it's a problem with their own head). Three, you've got a really elaborate theory that the simulation has finite computing power, and so any computation-intense civilization could get violently aborted. At the same time, it's quite likely that advanced civilizations would start building their own simulations-in-simulations. Therefore, a believer would (1) have to institute and enforce strict rules against certain avenues of technological development and (2) eradicate all other civilizations, Dark Forest-style. Otherwise, nobody knows when the local galaxy cluster would get Ctrl+Alt+Del.

A Chinese shipyard wants to jump onto the rake of nuclear-powered commercial vessels https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202312/1303089.shtml Sorry, but that's going straight into this thread for now. The problems are not technical but economical and political. The most recent ship, the Sevmorput', was basically not allowed into anywhere besides North Korea. The Savannah, besides being a poor freighter, was apparently also crippled by red tape in the 1960s, long before Chernobyl.

It's such a weird combination. Do these position still hold so much clout in the age where everyone's on Zoom?

"Do you want the longitudinal or the transverse mounting of your tank's engine?" Swedish Ikv 91: "No"

Here's one better! Vega-C contractor accidentally throws out two fourth-stage tanks into the trash. https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-case-of-the-missing-vega-avum-propellant-tanks/

"So you're saying that an aircraft that is dilapidated because of your bureaucratic obstitance is going to be razed along with the hangar because it's dilapidated!?" "Ha-ha, bulldozer goes brrrr" https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/the-city-of-irvine-neglects-and-destroys-pv-1-ventura.html

https://t.me/roscosmos_press/1692 TEM Zeus Total mass dry / fueled 20.6 t / 22 t Structural gurder mass 10.6 t Power unit mass 7 t Propulsion system, dry mass 1.4 t Support systems dry mass 3 t UDMH+NTO 0.44 t Xenon 1 t Dimensions, stowed 24.9x5 m Dimensions, deployed 56.7 m x 10.6 m (radiators) / 20.9 m (solar panels) Inertia moment 72 (X), 7400 (Y), 8400 (Z) t*m2 Launcher Angara-A5 Tug Fregat Area of (high-temperature?) radiator 696 m2 Reactor output 1900 kWt (thermal), 470 kWt (electrical) The slide appears to feature both an ion and a rotary MPD variant. I suspect the datasheet is mainly for ion because the rotary MPD has an extra structure atop the reactor in order to connect MPD's rotors directly to the turbine shaft(s). Yes, this means the two variants have opposite thrust vectors. @nyrath

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/