. If it takes an anti-missile costing $100,000 to take out a drone costing $1,000, that's an obvious advantage to the side using drones.
It's also a temporary problem. Short-range anti-drone missiles should cost roughly the same amount as drones.
It's also worth noting that even objectively terrible movie treatments (for example, Soylent Green's failure to represent the actual storyline of Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room, while also being cheesy and stupid, and Without Remorse's failure to even remotely resemble Tom Clancy's book, while also being... well, lame) didn't hurt those books.
Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space!
Newton submissively begs scraps from Einstein's table, suh.
No. Leave the fucking books alone.
Protip: Just don't buy into new motion pictures based on books. Your problem, solved! Because as you probably will understand if you give it some thought, the existence of a first-time movie treatment of a book doesn't hurt the related book. Quite the contrary, most often.
For those of us who don't want to see yet another Roadhouse or Bladerunner or Poseidon or Total Recall — and for the authors — new motion pictures based on previously untreated stories are a good thing. At least once they're out on physical media. Movie theaters... [shudders]
Interesting. Looks like it is used to a very small extent in California, and has been for decades. I'll guess it's less than 90% efficient, but I really have no idea.
Pretty much all tech we have today is entirely possible without burning fossile[sic] fuels
One of the apparent filters is simply that above a certain level of gravity, chemical rockets will not suffice to reach space. We're near the edge of that condition ourselves. Any number of civilizations might be out there, pinned against their planet's surfaces. The only way that's not true is if there are physics yet to be discovered that can accomplish surface-to-space in high gravity without using chemical rockets. We certainly haven't found any sign of such science/technology here. And fission or fusion powered rockets... the engineering for that is at least completely non-obvious thus far. And before anyone says "nukes against a pressure plate", yeah, a delightfully bang-y notion, but no.
The assumption made in the Fermi paradox that any civilization could reach space if they try may simply be wrong.
As there are so many wonderful books out there just begging for a motion picture treatment, Hollywood will oblige by... releasing more pointless, vapid remakes.
That is essentially how whistle-blowing is done
I think more often, whistleblowing is just complaining to your manager, or manager's manager.
I think any engineering out fit should have c-levels that are mandated by law to be engineers
It won't help. "Ambitious" management types will just see that as another obstacle, and then will feel more entitled to riches because they've "worked so hard for them."
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.