LeifCarrotson

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   by LeifCarrotson 11y ago

   The important thing isn't that you can now build a clone (it was scrapped for good reason: satellite retrieval never picked up and there are cheaper ways to get things into space and people in and out of space) but that the technology
2. 4022.▲
   by LeifCarrotson 11y ago

   If you can spend 40 years in a lab breathing mercury fumes, maybe it isn't as dangerous as the public perceives it to be? I mean sure, let's stop sealing gas valves with it, a space should be built to be safe to work in for 40 yea
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   by LeifCarrotson 11y ago

   With the individual mandate described by Obamacare, the price of not going to the doctor at all is $695 for each adult, plus $347.50 for each child, plus 2.5% of after-tax income.
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   by LeifCarrotson 11y ago

   I disagree, that solution can scale very well. Specialization is at the core of how we live in such luxury compared to a few hundred years ago. A handful of well-funded, well-educated experts working as a career on a hard, expensive proble
5. 4025.▲
   by LeifCarrotson 12y ago

   No, but not because of the reaction time. Unfortunately jet engines are much less efficient at low speeds like this. They work best when accelerating a large volume of air a little bit, and that means they work poorly in the hover configura