How about the Lee-Enfield .303?
Obsoleting something because it's old is stupid. If they were obsoleting it because of requirements it doesn't fulfill outweighing the requirements the replacement doesn't fulfill, I can see it being a viable option.

But as it is, using the age as an argument is foolish. There's plenty of tech we use that's far older design.

It weight is a problem, do a root cause analysis, asking a few why's.
1: Why is weight a problem now?
1a: Rengers have to carry more other stuff.
1aq: Why?
1b: Rangers are not as fit as before
1bq: Why? ...
and so on. Presumably most of the root causes have nothing to do with the gun.

Only if coming up with a solution that replaces the rifle, and the risks or problems that may cause does not outweigh the current situation should a replacement be even considered.

People still buy factory new Colt 1911s, precisely because it's an old proven design.

I think the point of TFA was that it does work. And on average, better.

Emulsions can be good.

Yet, they actually do something.
Once companies takes pictures of Neptune or puts a man on the moon, I'll be suitably impressed.
Until then, they're leeches riding on NASAs skirt, playing around in LEO using NASA-derived designs, and not pushing any boundaries except executive bonuses.

... using NASA designs as the foundation.
If they had to research everything from scratch, they would go nowhere. It wasn't a public company that sent up the first space vessel, nor the first satellite, nor the first manned spacecraft, nor the first satellite, nor the first interplanetary vessel, nor the first manned trip to another world, nor.... Catch my drift?

Private enterprises are good at cashing in money on other people's work. But they seldom push the envelope or break boundaries.

No kidding. First manage one presidential term without killing anyone in other countries, and then consider diverting resources to lofty goals.

And why waste money on even collecting ideas? It's not like the republicans are going allow a massive NASA budget increase anyhow, unless it's weaponized.

Don't use the patented implementation at all, no matter how tempting or whether you do it for free. If your employer finds out that you have used tech that you hold the patents to, the likely outcome is an immediate termination and a defensive lawsuit against you.
They can't afford the risk of you suing them.

It's worse than that. If the company you apply for a job at has any interest in the patents, chances are that they will not offer you a job.
The problem is that you selling/licensing patents to them while an employee will easily be seen as a conflict of interest.

If they want you and the patents, I believe they may require you to sign over any and all IP to them as terms of employment, compensated by a signing bonus.

Dear Florian,

What can we do to make you go away?

Science has been rewritten numerous times.
The most known examples are general relativity and quantum mechanics.
With GR, pretty much every single formula of Newtonian physics became obsolete and wrong overnight.
With QM, our whole perspective on a baryonic universe changed.

Scientific models and theories are invalidated and replaced as we come up with new explanations that better fit the observed. That is what science is. Static is the one thing it isn't.

Sorry, but no - you need to read the paper better, because you're jumping to conclusions that the paper does not support.
Rossi did not only provide the test cylinders. He provided the pumps, control boxes, cabling and pretty much everything except the meters.
Just like a stage magician provides everything except the eyes.

And much more telling, the test run and real run are not comparable because of one factor that was introduced in the real run - Rossi himself.
There are so many ways he could have turned on an electric power source while supervising the insertion and extraction with his fingers, and rigged it so this power drain would not show up on the meters.
Especially since he provided all the cabling and physically touching connections through which surplus power could be delivered without showing up on the meters.

The scientists here broke an obvious rule of measuring - when someone else delivers something to be measured, you have to do the measurement outside all the parts of the system that is delivered. Not inside, because that inserts the experiment into the chain of trust.

And it should be obvious, but you don't let outsiders be present during any part of the experiment. Especially not the person who provided the equipment, and absolutely not letting the person touch and control parts of the experiment. That's tainted as fuck.

That should ring a warning bell, because it makes it easier to conduct (no pun intended) electric trickery.

You have two cables, each with a power meter clamped on.
Each cable has three wires. Two form a closed circuit, and the power consumption shows up on the meter. The third forms a closed circuit with the third wire from the other cable. Neither meter shows this current.

Also, power can be supplied in other ways, like through the scaffolding, through inductance, and many other ways.

You need to measure the whole system, and not only the part you think is relevant. Unfortunately, but predictably, no such measurements were done,

On cabling supplied by the magician. They seem to have taken Rossi's word for (a) the cables only providing DC and (b) not having any third conductor with the closed loop only being through two different cables.

And they did not measure the power of the entire system, including all the surrounding equipment. Which is what you really want to do with any over-parity claims. Every bit has to be accounted for, not just what appears to be the power source.

Not true. Around 85% of the helium in the universe comes from the Big Bang, and only 15% has (so far, by our clock) been created by fusion. For elements heavier than lithium, it holds true[*], but the first three elements also coalesced directly from the baryon soup.

[*] For practical purposes. All elements and isotopes were produced directly during big bang, but for all but the first three, the ratio and amounts were so small that they can be disregarded. Not for Helium, though.

No, sleight of hand is well inside a magician's domain.
Rossi was present and operating the experiment both when the "fuel" was inserted and removed.

This is probably one of the oldest cons in the book. Alchemists "produced" gold from lead, and fooled princes and kings.

But we don't know what the electrical input is. Rossi sets the stage, not the scientists who "verify" it. As long as Rossi provides all the outside equipment and power to run the show, there's no assurance that he doesn't somehow feed power from the outside.

Why won't he let others set up the tests and location, and he only providing the power generator? The answer seems pretty obvious, but then again, there's a venture capitalist born every minute...