You're going the complete wrong direction. If you want to have any change in hell of actually having enough power to get this thing in the air, you need to get your blade loading down, and that means a huge rotor. Huge rotors mean you need to be running low RPMs to keep it subsonic at the tip, and remember that the colder and higher molecular weight atmosphere means the speed of sound is going to be ~30% lower.

The quadrotor design paradigm exists because small electric motors are cheap, and the power-to-weight ratios available in the couple pound range are absurd to the point that good engineering is unnecessary. In the couple thousand pound range, power becomes far more scarce, and the small, inefficient rotors just won't cut it. They have lowered the minimum barrier to entry for hobbyists, and research projects that need a simple airborne platform. They don't work well for full scale aircraft.

Yes. It does. That's why a Li-Ion battery is permanently dead if you allow it to self-discharge too far.

Since you don't seem to be getting bored of yourself, it's the fundamental principle of thermionic emission.

Zero. In a multi-cell Li-Ion battery, once your cell voltage drops below a certain critical value, a protection circuit disconnects it from the rest of the pack. A fully discharged battery will simply be a short circuit bypassing all the individual cells.

Catastrophic failures can happen. There's no way to predict all eventualities, and trying to do so will bankrupt you. All you can do is provide enough redundancy to bring your statistical failure rate to an acceptable level.

Flight 232 was simply a poor design. The three hydraulic systems all had lines that ran right next to each other, and had no shut off valves. When the tail engine had an uncontained failure, it severed lines on all three systems, which then depressurized throughout the aircraft.

The previous poster was referring to dead batteries.

You can still perform NAT over IPv6, or set up a more intelligent proxy if your data stream carries information that could unmask the remote endpoint. There will be no difference.

That doesn't make any sense. A dead Li-Ion battery has little remaining energy, and that which does exist can't go anywhere because the built-in safety mechanisms would have burned out all the internal fuses.

And I'm sure it communicates with a number of microcontrollers to perform the real-time IO, rather than crippling the CPU with those tasks, and doesn't carry a giant completely unused GPU around with it that uses far more power than the CPU.

You cannot download unless someone else is uploading. Since uploading is copyright infringement, and thus illegal, you are party to the illegal action. Your argument is like claiming it's not illegal to buy bootleg goods.

I was under the impression TOR was explicitly designed to allow others to break the law, for the benefit of regions where things like expressing an opinion is illegal. Of course an anonymizer service is only effective if there is plenty of other innocuous white noise on the same channel.

The users' own Hopper DVR is recording the television, transcoding it, and streaming it across the users' own internet connection to the users' own devices. This is not a service Dish is offering, merely a capability of the physical DVR they are renting to subscribers.

Presumably the distributor is only distributing the print version, not the Kindle version, and has nothing to do with the conference.

You're off by an order of magnitude on that atmospheric density. Terminal velocity is going to be three times that high.

By 2001, Athlons were running in the 1GHz+ range, and P4s were out up to 2GHz. The RPi is closer in performance to a low end Pentium II.