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That's one hell of a splinter.

Oh, don't worry. I said almost. Besides, I keep my inner ghoul fed by Boeing.

Hundreds of cargo flights before humans? That's gonna take a while. On the other hand, orbital next year is amazing, if they can pull it off. Anyway, their F9 missions are almost starting to get boringly norminal. Now I'm watching the abridged versions of launch, MECO and landing, almost hoping for some drama. It's weird. Just a few years ago, landing a rocket was almost science fiction, not it's not normal if it doesn't happen. Amazing time to be alive and watch this unfold.

But what if you swing the rod, you may ask yourself now.

Leslie Hamilton, Linda Hamilton's twin sister died. While Linda is the Sarah Connor we know and love, Leslie was also an important part of the Terminator 2 filming, featuring in final scene where T1000 morphs into Sarah Connor, so there are two Sarah Connors in the same shot. No CGI. She is also in a deleted scene at the gas station where they poke around Arny's head. Leslie is acting the mirror image. Again, no CGI. https://www.theterminatorfans.com/leslie-h-freas-twin-sister-of-terminator-star-linda-hamilton-dies/ Leslie was an ER and hospice nurse, devoted to helping others.

Oort cloud is just slightly less empty than the rest of the Universe.

Did you wash the solder joints? Some types of flux can be leaky. I've been bitten a few times by that.

Your selection of units gave me whiplash. Move the bridge (possibly below deck so it doesn't get blown away) and take off/land midship. Mass should be no problem. It's just a fraction of a ship that size.

Isn't this the leak they've known for months now, but had more important stuff to do, rather than this depressing issue? I forget where I got this from, but the leak is still within spec for the ISS, but it's above the usual and they just want to figure out what happened.

I have this solar powered watch that needs to be sunbathed for a few hours every half a year or so to recharge the battery. Today I realized that I haven't done it in a while and figured I might as well do it now, so I take it off my wrist, put it in the sun and promptly look at my wrist to check time. I'm an idiot.

Dude 1: Hey Dude 2, look what I found! An ancient image, I think they called it photograph, of the setting Sun as viewed from this exact location. Look how tiny the Sun was back then. Dude 2: Awesome! Wait what?

!!SuperPrime huh?++ Line Feed Actually, the list of languages you can learn in a day is quite long.

Because the other side is wrong.

It is a common theme and pattern wih people proposing overunity devices. They take a simple concept, than bury it in countless layers of complexities, until the entire thing is so convoluted that they lose the sight of where the energy comes from, and where all the losses lurk. Some of the most efficient devices we are capable of producing are electric motor and generator. If your ship is anchored in a moving body of water, then dropping a turbine will be the most efficient method of harnessing that energy. But as soon as your ship has to move, that turbine is only going to cause losses. There is a proposal for auxiliary power source for large ships, called SkySail, which is basically a kite. During tests it reduced fuel consumption by about 10 to 15%. On a cargo ship that equates to saving thousands of dollars in fuel each day, yet it still is not attractive enough for shipping companies.

If a newly designed product meets spec and requirements than the next step is to make is as cheap as possible, lowering the quality/quantity/whatever until it barely meets the spec. If an industrial product or service is not as cheap as it can possibly get, the only reason for it being so expensive is regulation. It really is that simple. Small scale production is different, since for small scale it is usually too expensive to iterate optimization process since the manufacturing cost reduction will not be recouped considering the small sales volumes and the cost of extended development time is not justified. But we are not talking about small scale stuff. We are talking global industry level. Not mechanical friction, but electrodynamic drag, eddy currents, whatever. They are just as real as physical friction, and act entirely similar enough for this discussion. If there is static buildup on the ship hull, that energy came from the engine. The idea is to get rid of that static charge as soon as possible so you experience less of drag.

OP, you should really pick one idea and dedicate some time to expand on it, and not pollute the discussion with countless others. It is confusing. I tried reading the topic but, honestly, I got lost. You bring so many different ideas into the discussion that it's hard to follow. After four pages of discussion, I still don't understand what is it that you are proposing, other than to use cold plasma, for whatever use as long as it's cold plasma. I would suggest that you try answering these questions: What, why, how, and why hasn't it already been done? Hint for the last one: Industrial processes (shipping is one of them) are extremely optimized for cost. If it hasn't already been done, there must be a reason why.

Timeline by Michael Crichton, although not about improving the medieval times, is about modern folk going back, for reasons and doing stuff. There is a 2003 film adaptation, which I don't think did the novel justice, so don't watch that if you think you'll ever read the novel, which you should do, regardless of the fact that it's not exactly what you are asking about.

And somehow it's still cheaper to send empty huge a$$ rocket than one designed specifically for this kind of cargo. Boggles the mind.

Congratulations, SpaceX! You deliver yet again. That thing flying looked unreal. Anyway, do we know why the engine was offset?

Splashdown! More nerve wrecking than the launch. Good job SpaceX

Let's go! Splish splash.

Pentagon Wars (1998).

Your favorite three letter agency?

But you don't need to change passwords to perform this type of attack. You just need to add a new entry into the database called Elon's tweets (or modify a previous tweet). That part of the database is not hashed.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if there is access to raw database, it can used in for a hack of this sort, special admin panel or not; and of course, there has to be access to the database, so it's a matter of who you trust enough to give such access to. While deciding on that individual, keep in mind that everybody has their price. Social engineering is mindbogglingly effective. Just take a look at some YT videos of white hat hacking and pen testing. Facilities much more important that Twitter server room open their doors to unauthorized individuals, just because they have a high vis vest and ask nicely.