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Agreed, it was a problem with the first record this crew did with Thrust SSC. The wind tunnel work they did was almost all about stopping take-off and the nose of the craft was packed with sensors monitoring for catastrophic lift.

I met Nobel and Andy the pilot/driver when Thrust SSC was going and they are both very enthusiastic, utterly committed to breaking land speed records and madder than a sack of badgers. Green said the weirdest thing about the whole drive was dealing with the brain's capacity to process relative speed, or rather the lack of ability to do so. At the end of the run he'd found himself getting ready to brake hard as the vehicle felt like it was going slowly enough and found he was still going around 400mph.

The paper looks very interesting and should be another reason for a full grid upgrade, so we can use smarter power systems. It's a pity Edison's idea of local power stations never took off. Such a system would be much more fault tolerant and scalable. The same thing could be done now with pebble nuclear reactors.

Well, not exactly. Once the petition is signed by more than 500 signatures the government has to make a response. However, you are right in that the response is usually worthless.

I've seen similar birthday plans scheduled for October 29th (first hard link) or even December. It's one of those unknowable things, but an entertaining article nevertheless.

At least pick one that works.