Comment This is news? (Score 1) 216
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What happens when you vent a few kilograms of tritium?
No, I'm not considering Kaveri a race car, but in comparison to Puma it has a lot more CPU horsepower.
That's just a matter of size. Fusion power release rises as a function of plasma volume, heat losses rise as a function of plasma surface, so just make it big enough.
A year or so would be nice, but shorter periods might be useful, too.
Oh, that one
Wait a minute while I call my lawyers.
You're suggesting to do what to prefectly good beer?
Maybe the people complaining about the numbers should try driving more efficiently?
Yes, you can!
The only problem is that your satire will become reality sooner than you think.
If you presume another vessel to be sufficiently hostile to unleash a swarm of robot boats armed with, among other things,
".50-caliber machine gun and a microwave direct energy weapon or heat ray."
on it, then you might as well give it a warning shot and, if it doesn't react, shoot it with a real gun.
I asked the resident baked goods engineer at home, and she does indeed use the more correct version shown in the link.
Scooping ingredients directly from the container only works with fairly incompressible things like (white) or salt.
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