UC Davis has a 2 MW reactor...

K-9!

Larry Niven as well. Ringworld Engineers. 1980.

Surprisingly (at least to me), you can send classified documents up to a certain level via certified or registered mail, I can't remember which one it was... I thought that there would be more drama surrounding it but apparently not...

I also really enjoyed "Homeworld" by Harry Harrison. Protagonist is an EE. Big brother state. It was part of the "To the stars" trilogy, but I particularly liked this book.

I also liked some of his other books like "Rebel in Time" and "Bill, the Galactic Hero".

Unless you have a car which doesn't have a robust transmission...

Our Hyundai Accent apparently has an automatic transmission which has a design issue with the thrust bearing which can wear out in about 100,000 miles. We had ours go at 180,000 but a 100,000 mile transmission failure is not unheard of in the older Accents apparently...

You might want to give Eric a try. Eric is an IDE for python which can call Qt designer. This allows you to create the gui using Qt and with PyQt write your actual program in Python.

Plus, there is an assumption that these networks are up 24/7. If the are used on an as needed basis, flying a SIGINT plane may not turn up very much...

When we were traveling across the United States, there was about 45 minutes of our trip through Utah where we were not receiving GPS signals. I believe it happened in the early afternoon. Fortunately there were not turns involved during that portion of the trip.

Yep, and ignore sales and marketing at your peril as well...

Clearly this is a person who has not been around for very long...or only around during good times and not any hard times...