And if the Sandwich Islands had remained in the British Empire...

For them to have remained in the British Empire, they would have had to have been part of it at some time in their history, which they weren't. Up to the time when they became a US territory they were an independent nation, and for most of that time, a monarchy. And, as it happens, the famous song Aloha 'Oe was written by Queen Liliuokalani, the last Queen of Hawaii.

What was contained on-board? A wheel of cheese, or perhaps some ice cream?

Regardless, great job and keep going guys. It will be great to see you in orbit in about 3 years.

Try NASA or the guy that invented it.

Neither is a 10 KWH battery with something like an AC, or electric heat.
However, if you have a decently insulated house, then it will hold the temp for quite sometime.
In addition, a solar system, combined with a low energy using geo-thermal HVAC will reset the temps in the daytime.

Yep. There are plenty of banks to choose from that - whatever their other flaws - at least take security seriously. If your bank can't or won't lock down their website, then you already know that they're negligent in at least one area. What else are they neglecting?

I don't think it's extreme at all. I think we're past the point that's it's socially reasonable or responsible not to encrypt all traffic by default.

Even if you're 100% OK with visitors to your site being snooped on, consider that adding to the amount of crypto in use worldwide makes it hard for repressive governments to tell what their citizens are doing online. Maybe your site would be the straw that broke the Great Firewall's back and lets some kid read uncensored news.

Seriously, the man is a genious, but batteries for homes is not that good, unless it is possible for utility to control them as well. At the very least, Tesla should make available server software that utility can interact with home batteries when owner allows. In seasonal weather with high demands and when solar can be blocked via clouds or length of day, it is best to allow utility to control when to charge them , or buy from them.

You are better off spending money on geothermal HVAC and insulation.

Yes, I know. There's enough cases listed on the Wikipedia page that I linked to from many ancient cultures, but I thought that it was better to encourage readers to follow the link and maybe learn something than to have me re-write all of the known cases.

yeah, I saw that.
I did screw up and it is apparently NET than July, not June.
Still, I will take that happily.

Oh, I think that they understood the concept very well. It's not exactly new; the Romans used it as did the Greeks in a few cases.

Get off my lawn, sonny.

(Thinks tattoos can be ugly or beautiful, just like the people wearing them.)

Here you go.

4-digit UID, just over 40, no tats but I've thought about it. I've never considered anything massive like a sleeve before because I don't think it'd look good on me, but I couldn't care less if other people have them.