RTFS: "broadband speeds". But do we really need full broadband speeds in the middle of nowhere that's too remote for cellular towers?

I'm more worried about the numerous Sirius Cybernetics products. Share and enjoy!

In fact, I recall reading long ago that the transfer for the original NTSC DVDs was screwed up because they had the pull-down ratio wrong, so the timing was off by 4%. This normally happens the other way around with an NTSC source being converted to PAL.

And now I realize another annoyance of phenylephrine. It also can be abbreviated PE. I was referring to psuedoephedrine above, of course.

It's classic Actifed for me. I don't think they even make it any more because of the scare storm about making meth from PE (very much not the best way to make it), bit you can still get generics.

Start with two Sudafeds worth of PE, then add some stuff called Triprolidine. What you get will put me the fuck to sleep for four hours solid (after half an hour start delay), so I normally have to break them in half, which only makes my supply last longer. Lately I've started breaking the halves in half to see if that is still enough, because even half a tablet can make me drowsy. I haven't tried it enough times yet to be sure, but I think it still helps when I have dry congestion. (both sinuses closing up)

And you missed the point. I wasn't asking "what does this one use", because it's in the fucking summary. It's about the general concept. There is no one fuel that rockets use, you have to match with what needs refueling. You don't just throw some fuel up into orbit and wait for something to come by and use it.

Plane changes are expensive in terms of fuel consumption. Once you're done, then you have to do another plane change for the next refueling. And you have to somehow transfer the fuel, which depends on even having some way to fill it. Better to do what is already being done, and send up one-way boosters with their own fuel and engines, that latch onto the satellite and become its new engine.

This. The thing that "orbital depot" people neglect to mention (or don't even realize) is that orbit is not like a highway. You don't just pull over at the next exit. A fuel depot has to be at a specific point in a specific orbit, which means that you have a small window to reach it, probably only once every 24 hours. And that doesn't even go into the choice of fuel, is it hydrogen, methane, kerosene? What oxidizer, LOX or peroxide? Or one of the many possible hypergolics, such as UDMH/NTO?

4) Frickin' laser

It's the Grauniad, typical for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieren

I was already caught up on the manga, including slogging through all the hiatuses in the past year (most of which were probably caused by the anime production), and I can say that the anime has really been done well. And its music is great too.

Coming up in a month or two will be the Dungeon Meshi anime. It's another good manga that recently had its final episode, and it should translate well to animation.

If that doesn't work, few mornings of sunrise at 5AM will bring them around.

Arizona is not the entire world. The effect of DST is entirely dependent upon your latitude, and your longitude within your time zone. Arizona is at the western edge of MST. They can live without going forward an hour because they are already half an hour foward. Arizona is also in the south, where variations in the length of the day are smallest. Indiana, the other state famous for no DST, is also the westernmost state in EST.

Basically someone conned him into believing that it would save energy. It doesn't. There's a reason it's called "Daylight Saving Time", not "Energy Saving Time". But if we tried to go back now to the old dates, there would be enough things with the current time change dates burned in that it would not be fun.

But it already has happened, why don't you know about it? Probably because it is so bad that it only lasts a year before they go back, and then everyone forgets. Then decades later, a new generation thinks that we should end it, smug about being so smart that they were the first to think of it.

Lots of people "know" that it would be better than what we have. Except they really don't know, because they have never experienced (or even know about) the few times that it was turned off. They haven't lived through a full year with the clock an hour different. They don't stop at random times of the year to think "what if it were an hour earlier/later today"?

They only think "it sucks today", but don't think about their favored answer sucking in the middle of winter when sunrise is almost 8 AM. Or they are on the far east or west edge of a time zone, and can't comprehend that it only sucks for them because where they live makes the sun half an hour earlier/later, but they still think that things should change everywhere, just for their personal convenience.

It depends on the city. They have been slowly wiring up San Antonio for like five years now. They just buried it in my neighborhood and should be lighting it up a few weeks from now.