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Comment Re:Say what? (Score 5, Informative) 44

That 117% is based on this definition: The power conversion percentage indicated by the asterisk is derived from the optimal power (or power density) obtained from motor-driven devices in air, as reported in the corresponding literature, compared to the optimal power achieved under simulated aquatic conditions in the laboratory.

Ie. 100% is a baseline corresponding to a specific known metric and technology, so 117% isn't how much energy is actually extracted and converted but how it performs against the baseline. So don't worry, the technology doesn't break the laws of physics, just the laws of sensibilities due to poor presentation of the scientific paper.

Comment Re:Ah like MS-DOS JOIN and SUBST eh! (Score 1) 54

That brings me back, we discovered that you could send a malformed IPX/SPX packet to any computer on the network and it would instantly reboot when the network stack crashed. And so DIE.EXE was born and was used on unsuspecting targets during the weekly and very unofficial beer and snipes tournament at the office.

Comment Re:Tier 2 time. (Score 1) 248

The interesting thing here is the timing, 0.1 seconds. Two switches that need be pulled out and then moved to the CUTOFF position can't be changed within 0.1 seconds unless someone uses both hands and a synchronicity of 0.1 seconds seems very tight but possible if timed right. For a pilot to be able to do this they must turn and bend over in their seat while strapped in to be able to reach the switches with both hands. This means that it was intentional or the switches were faulty in some way and switched themselves to the CUTOFF-position. The latter can for example be due to that they were never seated correctly in the RUN-position.

Comment Re:CEO gets free marketing and complains about it (Score 4, Insightful) 39

It wasn't free marketing, either the company suffer reputational damage for not supporting something a stupid AI said they could which will cost them money in lost customers or they develop a new future which will cost them money. Your definition of definition is very strange.

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