The US Navy's Fleet Ballistic Submarines (SSBNs) will stay at sea and submerged for months at a time. It's similar to a Mars mission: For large parts of that, they've out of high-bandwidth communications 24x7, and that can't be relaxed even if somebody gets ill. The populations are young and fit, but medical emergencies do happen, particularly injuries.

SSBNs do have excellent medical facilities, but no physician. One or sometimes two Submarine Independent Duty Corpsmen handle medical emergencies, if need be without help. The training for a Submarine IDC used to be year; I think it's been or is being upgraded.

And people go on those missions voluntarily.

Ooh, good point! Thanks for thinking of that escape clause!

No. Anything only fired from the surface can't be in an orbit that clears all the way around the planet. With no atmosphere, it's path has to come around through the gun's position, which doesn't work because the planet gets in the way. With atmosphere, it's even worse. You need thrust _above_ the atmosphere to correct to a viable orbit.

Sorry, no, it doesn't "explains all of the forces (strong, electromagnetic, gravitational) as manifestations of the wave equation used in its model". EWT works in a 3D space, not the 3D+1T spacetime of relativity. A huge number of _observed_ strong, electromagnetic and gravitational effects agree with relativity, and disagree with a 3D invariant space. It can't reproduce any of them. When a new theory predicts something different, and that's what nature does, it's a discovery. When the new theory predicts things that _nature_does_not_do_, that theory is just wrong.

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It's more complicated than that. Even our Moon, the original satellite, orbits the Sun more than the Earth: The Sun's force on the Moon is larger than the Earth's, so that when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth, it's falling _away_ from Earth. Yet the Earth's orbit is "straight enough", because it's a really bit circle, that the Moon looks like it's going around us. And so we say that it does.

Like this one did, taking a hit and still flying 120 miles home? http://www.mlive.com/news/kala...

Or this one? http://www.womensmemorial.org/...

Or, best of all, these A-10s that were able to neutralize the threat with tactics and flares: http://theaviationist.com/2015...

The A-10 is loved because it fights despite the threat environment. When the F-35 shows it can do that, perhaps there will be a comparison.

Then the info was doctored. There's no way a shotgun could have taken it down at that distance.

Actually, it does. The Space X escape system may well have been able to separate from the second stage in time. It would still be available at that point. A true explosion happens a lot faster.

Their numbers work when they encode the positions of all the stars in the Universe to the Planck scale. But there's nothing magic about stars: They're just big (and hot), fluffy objects. What about encoding dust outside stars? The positions of the particles that make up the stars? Etc. And it's not at all clear that the position of a _star_ is meaningful on the Planck scale. So this is all just numerology.

This isn't even the first time a Gilbert Atomic Energy set has been in a museum. There's been one on display in the National Toy Train Museum on Pennsylvania (USA) for quite a while. You can (barely) see it off to the left at the 0:21 mark in this train video: http://nttmuseum.org/exhibits/... They don't make any extra-ordinary claims about its danger or cost. It's just an example of how people thought about things in a different time.

Except that covering one chip with some goop that blocks light fixed it. So it's not EMP. It's the light, probably UV.

Xenon makes a nice flash because it's so white. And it's so white because its emission spectra is so wide, going well into the UV. Some lamps filter the UV out, some don't; there's not enough light in a typical photographic flash for the UV to have any impact. But UV photons are important for upsetting electronics because they have enough energy to pop electrons out of potential wells in silicon/silicon-oxide IC circuits. Visible and IR photons generally don't. Remember the 2708 series of NVROM memories? They had a transparent window that let you erase them with a UV lamp (and a long wait); regular visible light had no effect on them. The visible photons, for any practical flux, just didn't have enough energy.

Here a better link to the Wall Street Journal article that'll work for non-subscribers. Summary: Switzerland recently put in place some transparency rules and limits on golden parachutes, etc, but the voters decided against a strict limit on salaries (or. more properly, salary ratio) by a wide margin.

For an interesting declassified report on using the B52/bomb failsafes, see: http://www.ufosnw.com/documents/projectdominic1962/projectdominicreport.pdf