I greatly appreciate the lack of reddit meta getting repeated adnauseum. 69 and 420 references really stop being funny when repeated in so many threads.

Dr. Zoidberg we know that’s you.

If they start to get any sort of volume, it would probably be fairly easy to partner with a US based printer as well. It’s not like these products are particularly unuque beyond the artwork.

You and your bad puns should hit the road.

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I want to see large gravel chunks at 80mph not a baseball at 25.

The biggest delays for ITER were all political in deciding where it would be built and who would contribute what. Yes, there’s been some technical delays since then, but compared to other projects of this scale it has actually gone fairly well.

The DEMO units to follow ITER should be able to be built by individual nations. Those should go a lot faster and hence cheaper. The whole point of structuring ITER the way they did was to give all the contributing countries experience in every critical system. That’s very inefficient for this particular project, but should make follow up projects a lot more feasible.

How do statements like that not spook investors? You’re telling me that leadership in the world’s largest internet hosting service are making decisions without collecting relevant data first, or worse, wilfully ignoring the data available that doesn’t support their preference? That is not a good sign for the future growth of AWS.

Blower fans are better if you want a bunch of cards in one system. Open air coolers dump too much of the hot air back into the case and are usually thicker. For non-gaming loads it’s frequently better to have more cards at less than max speed.

You should try the talos principle 2. They’re not apples to apples, but I’d guess that most who loved outer wilds would like it. The first talos principle is also good, but far less refined than the second.

The outerwilds dlc does add a fair bit of content. Although, I really don’t like jump scares so the dlc was not my favorite.

This author cites his own tweets and offers no evidence. It is complete speculation. We need better writing than this to consider such an extraordinary claim seriously.

It solves a stagnant demand for vending machines and gives a made up growth path for him to take to their investors.

This sounds terrible. If I can’t pick up a product and look at the packaging for specs or ingredients before deciding which item to pick, why wouldn’t I buy online instead? This is a great way for retail to finally cut one of their last benefits.

An international minimum wage should be established and imports made without meeting that wage should have substantial tariffs.

Why would you make more e-waste if you were still happy with your deck yesterday? This is a relatively minor refresh.

Hydrogen has about half the density of helium. The fire risk is notoriously unpopular, however.

Wide-spread adoption of airships would almost certainly have to use hydrogen.

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I think they would have to be able to actively jettison all the modules. For one, a loose cluster will be really hard to predict the impact zone. NASA does try to make sure debris falls over large areas of open ocean.

But I also think it isn’t operationally workable. I don’t think the joints can be remotely disconnected. That means your suggestion requires having crew on board or maybe even doing a series of spacewalks to do this work. I don’t think NASA would be ok with having a bunch of loose and uncontrolled modules in the vicinity of crew spacewalking and eventually a departing capsule. It would be really hard to manage collision risk in that scenario.

So I think either they would try to ditch the solar panels in a controlled fashion so they can more accurately deorbit the whole thing into the pacific, or they’ll have to develope small bolt on thruster packs that can safely jettison the modules 1 by 1.

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Check out this map of average daily solar irradiance.

https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/assets/NSRDB Graphic Update 2021 09 22.6d4966d2.jpg

As mentioned by other comments, water plays a huge role in absorbing and transporting heat as well as diffusing and reflecting light. As a result, many non equitorial regions are just as sunny as equitorial regions.

Your core premise also has a lot more nuance than you seem to realize. We have seasons because the earth’s tilt moves the maximum solar radiance up and down the tropics. The equator is only the sunniest latitude during the equinoxes. The change in latitude of the sunniest spot (subsolar point) shifts the fastest during the equinoxes since that’s the steepest part of the sine wave. The subsolar point stalls over 23.4 degrees N in June and 23.4 degrees S in Dec. These are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsolar_point The increased length of day also exaggerates the effect of the subsolar point drifting. That makes the intensity of summer heat worse than the heat the equator experiences. Any latitude between the tropics actually has two periods of maximum solar intensity per year. If you look at a map of desert biomes, a lot of them are near the tropics.

EUV was really hard to crack, but now that they have it working, refinements seem to be going well.

Also, the size of features hasn’t actually shrunk all that much from 32nm. What has really improved is the geometry of the transistors and wiring. This allows them to pack many more transistors in the area even if the lithography resolution hasn’t actually increased 16 fold. The 2nm name is just describing the relative increase in transistor density compared to the old layouts and densities.

ASML, TSMC and Intel are doing great work though. My comment is not meant to diminish what they’ve accomplished.