Intergalactic pot healer. P.K. Dick

In many countries there is no statutory limitation for certain crimes such as murder or rape. Although there is for all other crimes.
In the US it depends on the state.
http://criminal.findlaw.com/cr...

In sweden I have no idea. In the UK it is generally 7 years but some crime can never be absolved

New regulations grandfather in older vehicles as there tend to be few of them. Like most machines cars do tend to get old and die. Very few are given the attention and upkeep and welding and expensive parts replacement past a certain age. (not that the parts are expensive, the replacement of them is). Cars get old and most people do not care

New cars built after that date that is.

1996? that was when they were mandatory in the US I believe.

I have suffered this. Cards stopped working after using them once in Peru. Interesting call to say yes I am in Peru please let me use my money.

Lots of reasons why and many are for the best.

I can not comment on Santadar going for your wallet

And Russia does launch a lot more commercial satellites then anyone else on our planet. If you can not use the hardware you have in your orbiter or it can not be launched, as the US says NO, you are years into development and pretty screwed.

So yes it could cause many problems

"A lot of modern parts are reasonably radiation tolerant: very small feature sizes helps, because it requires a lot of doping to make the junction work in such a small size. Large doping levels means less likely that a particle will upset the apple cart."

You missed the converse of that. As features get smaller there is a higher probability that a high energy particle can and will cause something to go wrong. A lower probability of it actually hitting something. Sort of a trade off.

Reminds me of the Solarsail stories here on /. They knew that the hardware would reset due to random particles hitting it. something would trigger one of the watchdogs.

Or if you want to buy something that will be supported and available for 20 more years. I will have to track down the video of the storage vaults that TI(?) use to maintain older parts to enable some of the military requirements.

Just some comments to say that nuclear power stations are no where near your 99%. 70 to 90 % depending on many factors.

The nameplate on a new reactor is 4500MW. The produced electricity 1600MW. They take many billions to build and at the moment are running many years late. I quite like them but they are not cheap.

Military launches will not be left to only commercial launches. If they can, and it is cost effective, they will. But ULA will be funded and there.

Old enough to know the cane? (bat, paddle) I missed by one year. So I am a run away youff.

Now you just get Intel vs AMD or graphics cards (but they are the same names now)

It does make you cringe. So a different question. Should you be allowed to sell a product which is that defective? It looks like anything you make with it may work but could be fatally incorrect. for the user. Buyer beware I suppose. Possibly a win for humanity?

Remember that many plants are old and never lived up to their expectations.
In the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They never managed the uptime or output required.
Similar in the US. They could never be run at anywhere near capacity for numerous reasons (many not related to operating them)