Really, who in the hell would want to control Goebel's estate? And admit that fact in public?

The WiFi chip is FM capable. Or at least, the BCM4334 it's based on is.

lower than expected. Way lower. Plus she's hot

Envy me.

According to some other commenter, the gyrocopter was 100lbs over the ultralight limit.

What I'm wondering now though is how much flexibility the FAA and courts have in charging/sentencing people with that registration offence. I'd hate to think people could be going to prison because they forgot to file some paperwork on time.

What gets me is that the registration violation is a felony, but violating National Defence Airspace, which can earn you a missile up the keester, is the misdemeanor.

Apparently. And I think I just came up with a great punishment for corrupt politicians...

Food is necessary for survival, so it is necessary for a civilization. But civilizations need more than food (Take Maslow's hierarchy and extend it to civilizations). And unless I'm mistaken, the topic wasn't rebuilding some level of civilization, but modern civilization. For which electricity is a necessity.

Making insults is not the same thing as making a point. Just because I already considered your proposed solution and dismissed it as unworkable doesn't mean I lack imagination. I don't lack imagination, you just aren't taking yours far enough.

Do you actually think I don't know what steel is made of?

As interesting as your solar smelting idea is, unless the focal point covers the entire mass to be smelted it won't matter. For that you would need an array somewhat larger than this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And though in theory you could build a movable support structure for the mirrors from wood, maybe, you won't have the precision tools to make mirrors of a high enough quality to do the job. Even if you could, you would need a lot of those arrays to smelt on the required scale, and then you need to keep the metal uniformly hot to work it. A solvable engineering problem, but quite a hurdle without metal. You need metal to make tools to make higher grade metals to make higher quality tools to make everything else. You're going to have to burn something to get started.

Food is a necessary condition for civilization, but it is not sufficient. All the flour and wood in the world won't help you make a hydroelectric plant.

Without fossil fuels, we can't generate enough heat to smelt metals. Without metal tools, we can't build renewable power plants. In fact, we'd be stuck back in the stone age with no means of developing further.

You can build them from wood and stone, sure. But you can't get power from them without smelting metals, and you can't do that without fossil fuels. Without metal tools, building a wind or water mill will be... difficult,

Too true. You can't smelt without fossil fuels.

If we are starting over from scratch, then we won't have the tools to make the tools to build things to harness renewable energy. We won't be able to make steel without burning charcoal or coke, which are fossil fuels. Without steel, we're stuck.

So, no fossil fuels limits metallurgy to what you can melt with a wood burning furnace. And if what the poster means by "fossil fuels" is actually any carbon producing energy source, wood is out too.

If that view was more widespread, we wouldn't have to deal with DRM that only interferes with paying users.