Wait, the infamous bus incident happened in 1955.

That's ok, no one remembers when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, either.

You and the Flying Purple People-Eater. Oh wait, he's one eyed, one horned. - NVM.

That's Qwghlm. Did you mean Inner- or Outer Qwghlm?

We'll all scurry to the low bands where night-time groundwave propagation will still work. If the solar output drops enough, we might be able to use the low bands during the day if the lowered solar output doesn't ionize that pesky D-Layer.

Good point - I'm used to flat Caribbean islands, not mountainous Pacific Islands.

Their timeline has some serious NaN math errors - I hope they're not NASA errors: "New Horizons is taking 2 images of Kerberos with LORRI from NaN km away."

And before someone mentions it, the link is not necessarily single-hop:

Guam-based Pacific Telecom Inc says a backup microwave link, connecting Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan, has now restored emergency services.

It is about 100km from Guam itself hence why it could use a microwave backup.

For a single hop 100km line-of-sight radio path that just skims the sea in the middle of the path, the antennas would have to be 150m tall on both ends (or some combination of appropriate heights). Those are mighty tall towers, which might explain the storm damage. If you want to clear 80% of the 1st Fresnel zone, you'd need an additional 33m at the middle of the path.

It's in Earth orbit, which means the moon gets about the same amount of solar radiation per unit area as the Earth...

You're technically correct, which as we all know is the best sort of correct. :-)

The issue isn't the amount of light per unit area, it's the 2 week periods of darkness that will likely kill off your plants. Plants don't really like to grow in two week on/two week off spurts.

And Ayn Rand's dead ears just perked up. Atlas Shrugged, anyone?

Liberals: "1984" and "Atlas Shrugged" where warnings, NOT instruction manuals.

So the US just got a little more breathing room since the famous 47% is now only 43%?

There is no one true energy source to rule them all. No dilithium crystals, no Mr Fusion.

There's no Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulatoooor?

... that way they recover some wasted energy ...

The electromagnetic field energy he was draining was not 'wasted' - it would've just oscillated back and forth as normal. Once he started coupling to it, it started pulling actual power, so he was stealing power that would've otherwise been transmitted down the line.

Worked for IMDB

And CDDB (now Gracenote) before it. I remember the fury and outcry when they took all of the volunteer-entered CD data and started charging for it.

Float the salt solution container snugly in another filled with water than is drained by a tiny hole (or perhaps evaporation alone would work)?