That depends. If you already have a lot of hardware, you're locked in by vendor.

But if you don't, you get another option. That's not a bad thing.

And it's impossible to argue with someone who moved the goal posts at the start of the discussion, while remaining in direct conflict with both US and Soviet engineers who worked on the very engines at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Those fucking liars. Clearly slashdot used K.S. Kyosuke knows better than relevant people at Aerojet.

Ditto. You're like those people who suggest that USSR was democratic because it held elections.

The subby did finish it. Just read it as an exclamation of joy. "Astronomers something something stuff - YEAH!!!"

FTA: "The walls and other components of the structure were fabricated offsite with a diagonal reinforced print pattern and then shipped in and pieced together. The company then placed beam columns and steel rebar within the walls, along with insulation, reserving space for pipe lines, windows and doors."

From the text and what few pictures of the actual construction material they show, it looks like they basically print it with voids specifically for skewering it with rebar on-site.

Now, whether or not you trust the final assembler to actually *do* so and then backfill the voids with some sort of mortar so the rebar actaully has something to stick to... Well, we'll find out in the first big earthquake they get, I suppose.

Translation: "we had this thing used for low thrust and we'll pretend really, REALLY hard that it's the same thing as first stage high thrust engine".

Because you know, when you have horses, that's totally the same thing as invention of internal combustion engines because both use burning process to power the movement.

Kindly point me towards evidence of this, as I have seen LM engineers admit to not thinking this engine was possible on camera until they got to test fire it.

I've heard some rather pointless attempts to pretend that US had something like it, when in reality the only things that come even close are a couple of test projects that have started recently in attempt to reverse-engineer the Russian engine. You suggestion is one of those lame white washing attempts which amounts to "well we have closed circuit system that doesn't work as an engine because it has no meaningful thrust, but we had a closed circuit so we're not 40 years behind, nosiree".

FTA: "Restricting the FCC's Section 706 powers could also interfere with the commission's plans for preempting state laws that prevent cities and towns from building broadband networks." http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

So their masters were worried about cities building their own fiber network.

...of Comcast in their mouth. Nice.

Apparently you are no familiar with Google's petition to the FCC says Title II would help them gain access to utilities poles to roll out fiber.

Which is where local government can step in and provide without fear of lawsuits from big telecom that prevents such rollouts.

The best use I ever found for the Nintendo Power Glove was jerking off, as it felt like Vader giving me a handjob. Kind of like doing it after sitting on your hand for a while, but more high tech. And best of all, that activity didn't even require turning on the console.

Money. It's much cheaper to convict through plea bargain, and therefore more prisoners can be convicted allowing for money transfer from state to private prisons.

Okay, technically we have an "interglacial" period, if you want to get pedantic.

When the "ice age" really ends - We have a problem.

Typically it's flammable and dumped into combustion chamber to be burned off to generate thrust.