There's actually a fantastic refinement of Project Orion, called the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket. (see: wikipedia article, also this article)

Basically -- the idea is to have a mix of water and U235 mixed to a level _just below criticality_ stored as your fuel. You then inject it at high velocity into your rocket exhaust where it reaches critical density; and ignites. Giving you a "constant flow" nuclear explosion (i.e. not intermittent bursts like Orion). It's usable today, using todays technology.

The only major disadvantage is you obviously can't use it in Earths atmosphere -- you do need to haul the rocket up to orbit (and point it away from earth) before you ignite it.

They have a microphone - they should be able to synchronise based off that. Only major problem would be calculating distance - but even then I'm not sure the speed of sound level differences would be perceptible.

They're not arguing copyright infringement. They're arguing defeat of a Technological Prevention Measure; of which 'fair use' is not an established exception.

It's dead Jim.

Thankfully those providers are generally going to LEO - and LEO debris will naturally fall down fairly quickly (couple of years).

The problem is: If it happens, we're fucked.

One satellite breaks up into a thousand itty bitty little flying pieces of scrap metal death that can break up other satellites in turn leading to a nasty chain reaction. The fact it _has_ happened is not cause for relaxation - that collision is causing consequences today.

Two big satellites colliding at 14km/sec could very well create the nightmare scenario. Because these are high orbits - it'll take decades if not centuries for the shrapnel to leave its stable orbit. We very well could be grounded as a species until things cool down.

tl;dr clean up your damn litter *shakes fist*!

Maybe? You might not need a _lot_ of gas compressed to this pressure for this to work. A tiny superconductor can still carry a lot of load.

It's only 10-20% because it's being bottlenecked by the CPU/RAM in the benchmarks they're using. In a pure-GPU comparison it's up to 40% faster.

You'll see the biggest benefit going from 2K/4K to 8K gaming (which in itself is stupid, but I digress...) because the CPU won't be the bottleneck there - and the added fill rate will help.

Netflix is generally on the same network already.

Most popular services have peering arrangements with ISPs.

Printing press?

Yep, another person still on a Pixel 2 XL here as well - battery is the main reason I haven't upgraded (even after partially smashing my screen); the 2XL's battery is still fantastic.

That's because the slots are full. Because everyone is using it.

Prohibition didn't spring up out of no-where, Temperance was well established before WW1. The theory potentially holds.

Probably a stupid question - but wouldn't the steam/plasma presumably have the same orbit as the original solid mass; similarly presumably wouldn't the solar wind blow the mass away fairly evenly - meaning in a long long time, it'll cool, condense and potentially (slowly) pull itself back together?

Unity3d may support NaCl; but it has a couple of glaring deficiencies - like a lack of network support (this is apparently a issue with the Pepper API not supporting it). The webplayer (NPAPI) version is unfortunately also a bit faster at runtime.