The USA is too busy dumping $billions/year into bailing out the Amtrak rathole.
How much energy is expended per passenger-km compared to an efficient aircraft?
Wish I had mod points because this deserves to be +500000.
What a tragedy. From watching his youtube videos, it was clear that, as a pilot, he was head and shoulders above the rest.
... because you can't ask government to hold itself accountable for breaking the law.
Just some questions about your post.
1) What is "tight" tolerance. I've heard of "high tolerance" and "low tolerance," but not "tight" tolerance. What does that mean?
2) What is a "degree F?"
I couldn't have said it better, except to say that Womens' Suffrage is a complete and abject failure and the 19th should be repealed as soon as possible.
I've long maintained that voting should be a privilege reserved for those learned in how a functional society works, because anything else is just mob rule, and we all know what happens when things are controlled by an unruly mob.
There is no such thing as -500C, as it would violate the laws of physics.
NASA is just another government handout program for well-connected contractors and campaign supporters. Kill it with fire already and let the private industry that has far surpassed its technical ability take over space exploration and utilization.
You could sell it for twice that easily in the developing world, which is exactly what Apple is going to do with them.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.