The safety records between both airlines is the same. There are just a lot of A320 in air right now. Thing is, it is this instance on letting the pilots do what they want that causes problems.

Well also the damage in Hawaii was fairly minor and a lot of equipment, personal and ships where much closer and reasonably unaffected.

First of all. To get EMP you need to detonate in the atmosphere. High up to be sure, but it is the interaction with the atmosphere that creates EMP. Too high and all you have is xrays and high energy particles, so only close stuff is affected. In space a mile wide killzone is in fact really small.

Secondly EMP is *not* the end and is not even that bad (don't believe the movie bullshit). It is like the opposite of a geomagnetic storm. Large power infrastructure is mostly unaffected. Small electronics close to the epicenter *and* turned on will be affected worse. However even civilian electronics tends to be fairly well shielded and even on substrates that give quite a bit of resistance to the pulse these days. Also some stuff will just need to be power cycled. But yea there would a bit of stuff that wouldn't turn on anymore. However hardly the end of the world.

An air burst however would be far far worse.

Maybe not idiot. But asshole definitely.

Heat death of the universe.

God dam it. I asked 100 dollar bill wallpaper!

Read the links in other posts in this topic. You don't even have to google. shesh. Your getting stupider every post.

The road toll in the US is about 50,000 per year.

No. Just no. All current designs use thermal energy from the lithium blanket. Only these hair ball non thermal designs insist on direct conversion. Which wouldn't even work in this case.

Where do you dig up this bullshit?

Thing is, it is just crazy that the US even has the death penalty. It is even crazier for treason? WTF?

Currently the largest and most deadly terrorist organization on the planet is the USA.

Just because you don't understand doesn't mean other don't. And no there has never been a " oh shit we must have just got all this data wrong for 200 years" moment in science. The data and results remain. New theory are not new. They tweak. And we have a lot of data that supports 2 things. FTL of things or information is time travel. Entanglement does not transmit information.

I meant that factoring is has not been shown to be in NP and that solving factoring faster is not evidence that quantum computers can solve NP problems faster than NP. I am being sloppy with terms here of course.

It has been speculated that no quantum computer can solve NP-complete/hard problems "faster" (ie in P). But then we also have a *very* small set of quantum algorithms to do anything at all. It just so happens that on of them is factoring. With large constants and a heavy burden on total number of operations needed and a fairly heavy classical computing burden as well. But it is still doable in P time.

Yea a little late to the party.

They haven't worked out costs. They have guessed costs. And on the very very optimistic side i may add.

Nothing has been demonstrated at march 5. It was all at sea level zero velocity.

TWR of air breathers is on the order of 10 compared to rocket engines in the 50-200 range. So sure you have less max thrust requirements, but your engines+intakes are heaver than the equivalent rocket anyway. Not to mention the very very difficult problem of getting a supersonic craft with a miraculous flight envelope to work without totally shit performance. It cost a fortune for a optimized point design for both the concord and the blackbird. And they are really slow compared to what this needs.