They search using side scanning sonar and look for anomolies. Many square km's can be scanned per day.

Aviation parts have huge margins on them. My guess is that even an expired battery was only down less than 10% in capacity compared to spec. Achieving the amazing safety record that planes have requires that all parts be designed to have a high safety margin, and be replaced long before their are significantly degraded.

Helicopters would have insufficient power generation capability without becoming too heavy to take off. So far these laser systems are being loaded up things as bug as 747's or warships where coming up with a few megawatts is not on insurmountable hurdle.

The author seemed delusional, especially on the point you make.

At an interview you are better off telling your story from scratch or by personal reputation than having to deal with someone who has already googled up some tidbits and let their mind fill in the blanks. Plenty of private details that will never affect your work performance (church affiliation, political party, age) can dramatically affect someones perception of you and are hard unseat (especially if you are unaware of how you have been judged).

I see a rich future for the already budding industry that massages your search results, and the concept that we will all have valuable timelines ignores that many will be skewed by manipulation.

Looked like a dead engine, so he likely had to dead stick it in. The prop was intact, indicating it had stopped before he landed.

Must have been that flock of seagulls.

Some of us would need a laptop. Just sayin'.

I have a hard time imagining any algorithm would ultimately determine that any of the as currently practiced religions would be an optimum solution to any big class of problems.

For a long time the intelligence community has been putting capability well ahead of results. From my meager experience I would guess that most of these capabilities produce little actual actionable results. More likely tese are a direct result of having to keep showing really cool possibilities to keep their fiefdom funded. Actual results driven funding would reault in much more human level intelligence, but that is hard and not sexy.

Can we end all the petroleum subsidies then?

Living here I can say I am frustrated by how much the local big businesses get big tax breaks simply by occasionally threatening to leave now and then. Nike, Intel, and now these datacenters. The rest of us, and other employers foot the bill to cover their shirked responsibilities to their communities.

When the Bismarck was crippled by a single torpedo from a crappy biplane launched from a carrier it became clear that Battleships were a dead end. More damage at a greater range can be done by missiles and by carrier based planes than by big ship mounted guns.

I thought we were already to the point where you pretty much looked for the quiet spot for modern subs, not the loud spot?

Get with the trend guys.

Or just LinuX.

All hail the GR to GR barrel adapter!