Rule of thumb i have used, is a dollar on gas means a dollar on upkeep, registration etc. Turned out to be fairly accurate, and that was in NZ where gas is quite a bit more than in the US. But people love there cars... LALALALA I can't hear you is the normal response.

What you expect? This is a government agency that vets people based on nothing more that reading tea leaves (aka lie detectors!). It's kinda hard to take them seriously.

I was assuming something like gas or central heating for alternate hot water supply. Clearly a electric hot water cylinder is no different from just heating in the washing machine.

You still got +3 insightful!

The rooms with all the LNA we had was shielded as well. I wonder what the polices on cell phones are? I imagine they have a lot of side bands that can fcsk with everything.

Cold wash. It is really common in NZ. But not here in the EU. Also most washers here don't have a hot water input, it has its own electrical heater. The worst way to heat water.

I use body heat to dry my clothes.

I like to personally use the phrase "A puppy dies every time this is executed"

Turns out that a superconductor won't lose that field. The items moving around the field have work done on them. But that is directly via forces on those objects. It won't suck energy out of the coil. In other words its a really big almost perfect permanent magnet. Of course this is once its all started. During start up there will be extra energy required for such dissipation effects, and well iron in the core will change things quite a bit.

I did the calculation to show that it was a silly idea (need cables made out of magic sort of thing). But it turns out the numbers are not nearly as bad as i expected. Not easy either and probably not as practical as just making a dome. But meh.

True, but the forces and energy are the same. ie a million superconducting wires will need a 350A current. It should be noted for 77GN your looking at something with a 5-10m diameter. So this is not small. But a bit more plausible that i originally thought.

It is not quite as easy as it sounds. If we assume we want a field strength close to what earths is, ie about 65 micro T, from the radius of mars of 3390km, we would need a current of 350MA. That is quite a bit. But even worse is the force this wire is under. The tension is 77.276 GN. The total energy in the magnetic field is 6.3MW/h.

Well it seems sort of plausible.

Sorry, but your faith the "quick" decision on a wet computer is misplaced and based mostly on romanticism. We are not far away from self driving vehicles being better in every possible way. When there response times are measured in microseconds, humans can't compete.

5 citations required. Note that they have not been published and have all have large issues with experimental procedures.

In both C and C++ just about everything in the spec has the words "undefined behaviour".

well the lots of small peices of glass do you give lots and lots and lots of small cuts. I had well over 100 cuts to my face and arms. But yea it healed. i didn't die.