A battleship was two things. It was heavily armed and heavily armored. If we ditched the turrets and guns for cruise missile launchers and use the recovered deck space for anti-air you would have an extremely formiddible fortress. Pair one or two of these with a carrier.

In WW2 battleships were cycled off into a direct fire role for amphibious operations as well as a large platform for anti-air weapons. There were very few ship-to-ship gunfights in WW2 involving battleships. I don't think we'll ever see battleships again, at least not as they've been defined, however I definitely see a potential for battleship sized vessels that serve the direct fire and anti-air roles just as well if not better than battleships ever did. If we work from a root that the battleship size/displacement were instead to be a vessel with the maximum amount of CIWS possible while relying on cruise missiles to serve its direct fire function you could have a serviceable replacement for the battleship.

Muons are deflected by heavy materials like nuclear waste. The object your looking for does not need to be between the detector and the atmosphere (implied to be underneath the object). The object can and that would work in the sense that you would have a blank spot in the detector corresponding to where the waste is. Instead they're relying on the muons being deflected by the waste where detectors on the surface can pick up those muons and use the array of collects and deflected muons to triangulate where the waste is located.

The audience sniffed while tugging on their braids.

Death to Smoochy.

The director then excused himself to go to the bathroom.

It's either this year (2015) in which cast the number of donations increased by just under 300 over these first 6 days of February. If it's this year (past 365 days) then it means that over the past year, excluding January, there were a bit under 300 donations totalling to just under 10,000.

So basically.... the Linux Foundation gave him $60,000 to keep working on the project and told him to shut up and not disclose it until after the pity article to trick people into donating when they otherwise wouldn't have.

Which you could just use cruise missiles against.

Thanks for mentioning this. Revenue is a pretty useless figure and no one pays attention to it for determining the health or success of a company. Metrics like profit, net profit, or cash flow are far better indicators.

Wheeler's statement contains very few things to be positive about. They're not going to do last-mile unbundling which means the monopolies are secured. There won't be any rate regulation so without the competition there's nothing to stop them from raising rates without improving service. End user throttling has been the majority of throttling issues while the big published ones alleged to be throttling are actually congested routes so this statement doesn't address that. I just don't see very much that's positive.

There has been throttling to individual users that are high bandwidth users but that's about the extent of throttling. Everything else I've heard that has been blamed on throttling has turned out to be congested routes, something which the FCC statement does not address.

They're not putting in rate regulation or doing any last-mile unbundling so they don't have to open their networks to competitors. That's a fun combo for insanity. Comcast can still throttle Netflix while having their competing service at lightning speed by just simply allowing the connection through which 95+% of Netflix traffic passes get congested. A more nuanced version of rules would need to be seen but I see very little positive changes in the proposal and more that entrenches the status quo.

I don't see anything he made a declaration of addressing any real problem that exists, at least not any wide scale or high public problem. For example, the Netflix/Comcast or Netflix/Verizon spat that seems to be the darling child of why net neutrality is needed. In order for regulation to address that problem they would need to either prohibit direct connection between networks, which essentially breaks the Internet without highly nuanced rules on top of only preventing the direct connect arrangement between Netflix and Comcast from ever being established, or they have to mandate minimum bandwidth being necessary at interconnects unless you want to get into the assinine statement that an oversaturated link is throttling.

I don't want a plot of land. I want HUGE TRACTS of land.