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Social insects also have weird genetic, all the workers are children of the queen I think is more important than lifespan. Now if they kill off the males where do they get new ones? If the queen birthed them you are just inbreeding? Else I agree with you, having an majority male population is even more stupid. Majority female makes sense if designed it for rapid growth. Majority male, don't see any benefit. But majority male is popular in fiction for some reason? Then you have the naked mole rats who is mammals but behaves like social insects. Hard to see how to get intelligence out of it compared to an pack of smart social animals. But if you want the social insect society here you have it. Note that the queen does not control the pack, even less so than an leader of an stone age human tribe because we can discuss and plan. Will it be less rigid if intelligent or will it not work?

This, you thought you found the problem and you fix it, but you fixed some other bug, happens all the time in software development. However we tend to be able to catch the error before they blow up the second time That you fixed was an real bug, but not the critical one.

Analogue computers are pretty cool, most was however mechanical and / or electric. Very fast for electrical / electronic ones and you can get continuous adjustments. The Iowa class battleships used their analogue computers up until deactivated. They had digital fire control computers but they was not more accurate back in the 80's, but they was cheaper. Analog computers was single task, they needed another computer for shore bombardment since you here usually got target from spotters. For something more generic you could reconfigure them, but accuracy will fall off if you chain them up so say two modules give input to next one who then feeds more down the line. Not so much an issue for an fire control computers as its mostly aggregate lots of inputs. Not so much for machine learning but some has looked that that approach. Saw one back in the 80's and it had been used in the 80's it was some problem who was not practical to do on 80's computers but the analogue had no issues.

Here I agree, SS is nice for landing heavy stuff on the moon, but overbuild for simple landings but can we get an better lander faster? As in its very overbuild for an exploration mission, even with the drill rig and the two cars, second is for recovery

Who is an fair question, Saturn is up to over 100 moons now and it will be many more once we get multiple probes in orbits, stuff down to meter size. So it need to be an cutoff size or all the particles in the ring is an moon

Reminds me of my 4070 ti event. Installing the card killed my power supply and motherboard. MB was less than 2 years old and PSU of an known brand and had more than enough power. Motherboard was inside warranty bit below 3 years. So got new parts and motherboard was same brand as previous one I was able to boot on it once I managed to find the correct bios settings.

First is pretty obvious, its very rare than some has 3 or more arms, much rarer than getting born without arms. More relevant, you can loose arms but get more. That is useful arms.

And why all my small landers are pancakes. diameter is 2 times larger or more than height to center of mass. one 1.25 meter core with engine, critical systems and capsule, four side tanks who will be staged with landing legs and all the other stuff like go and science junior and the extra power and batteries to run the experiments also extra reaction wheels. Now I assume its launch cost constrains in why they can not use the width of an falcon 9 fairing for the width of lander.

Now laser cannons starts to become an thing. Its benefit is light of speed travel and easy aiming, downside is hitting power. But that is not so important against drones, missiles is a bit harder. So it would be useful against missile swarms. at least as close in weapons.

I say that lasers against tanks is order of magnitude harder than planes and missiles. Not only the power requirement to get trough armor on an moving target but also that lasers is line of sight so the tank can shoot back. Most effective weapons against lasers is probably artillery, if needed make the warhead stealthy, or some sort of stand off glide bomb. An high attitude plane with an good laser is another problem, see no other counter here than an good laser. Its not like you can stealth an anti air missile. You could stealth an interceptor drone but it would not be very fast.

Yes L4 and 5 is stable, L1,2 and 3 is not but it don't require much to stay in them or even orbit around them like web does. But it require some as web life is determined by its fuel. And its was extended by the very precise injection burn.

One downside assuming we are still on ground to air defense. Its no crew unless some idiot try to strafe you. Shells, and missiles will be pretty homed in. so if targeting system fails correctly it will be ballistic trajectory from now and still pretty accurate And that gamma rays is questionable, you can make an xray laser but hard and no mirrors. Note nuke pumped x-ray lasers for local air defense is like close air support by the deathstar.

Its pretty cool that then the moon get behind the earth the moon turns red, this does not show until the moon is totally hidden by earth as the sunlight refracting by earth atmosphere is just an tiny fraction of that normally hitting it so just. Now on the moon the observer don't care if other part of the moon still see the sun.

I say pregnancy would be much shorter as the baby would develop in the egg. Downside is that the egg size is limited by the hole in the hip bone. This is already an major problem for human babies and mothers and the baby has to fit inside the egg. If the egg was not hard it would be easier but it would be an pretty large egg anyway. Redesigning the hip would be pretty required i think

Who is very obvious I say. Also the medium and audience who might not understand why an space station need radiators.