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Comment Re:US senators ae shiteaters who swallow (Score 1) 72

I have a feeling that the new ones will be extremely expensive too. Boom's aircraft is on the small side. They claim it will be net zero, but that seems exceedingly unlikely. Aviation fuel isn't cheap and subject to oil price shocks.

I wish someone would get a radically more fuel efficient design working. Lots of ideas like flying wings, but nothing ever comes of them.

Comment Re:US senators ae shiteaters who swallow (Score 1) 72

Concorde did fly to the US though, it just wasn't allowed to go supersonic over land. Which is fair enough, it didn't go supersonic over the UK or Ireland either, the pilots waited until it was out to sea.

The new tech that has been developed for limiting sonic booms is quite interesting. A combination of lessening the effects and making most of it bounce off the thicker atmosphere at lower altitude, a bit like how a submarine can hide from hydrophones by crossing boundary layers under the sea. Sound doesn't travel well between different density areas of a liquid or gas.

Submission + - Sony PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028 (bbc.com)

AmiMoJo writes: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without a physical disc. It marks a significant moment for the gaming industry, which has in recent years begun to rely more and more on digital distribution. Sony said the move came "as consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital". "This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to adapt to consumer trends as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs," it added. But it has been met with some pushback online, with gaming journalist Vikki Blake calling it a "body blow to consumer rights".

Comment Re:Chinese working on 3D chips also (Score 2) 111

And it has always been thus.

Stacking is not new. Heat dispersion problems that kill it are not new. A chip when heat-dispersed with a heat sink apparatus has known characteristics, but non-linear things happen when you heat both sides without some kind of temperature control method; chips bend, and then strange things happen.

This is news to cook the stock price, and maybe this generation of "advance".

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 1) 164

Well that's the thing, a lot of experienced mechanics can actually fly too. They aren't qualified for licensed, but they know how the controls work, they know what the instruments show, and they know the principles. Maybe they have even done some time on flight simulators.

Back in the day it wasn't uncommon for them to take aircraft up for testing.

And that is essentially how Luke learned too. Repairing small craft, and racing them with his friends.

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 4, Insightful) 164

See, this is what I'm talking about. You can invent reasons why it all makes sense. Some fans enjoy that, it's fine. But if you are willing to do it to explain away Luke's meteoric rise, why not Rey's as well? Remember that most of this stuff to justify Luke is based on stuff from the books and other media, or from what amount to retcons in later movies.

Also are we all still pretending that the Holiday Special didn't happen and isn't canon?

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 2) 164

He had flying experience at low altitude with gravity, and went from that to being an ace space fighter pilot in about a week. All the other pilots with actual military combat experience, the Rebel's best people, couldn't make that shot. It's not even clear why they gave a valuable X-Wing to a kid with no prior experience or proven skill, but then it's full of plot holes. They had to fly down the trench to avoid surface guns and get to the exhaust port, unless they were called Han Solo in which case they can just dive in a few hundred metres from it and take out the extremely Force sensitive main villain with a surprise shot.

Both Luke and Rey had the Force so we can suspend our disbelief for a moment and enjoy the movie. Pew-pew sounds in the vacuum of space just makes it better.

Comment Re:Lame, Lazy criticism - the only agenda is $$ (Score 3, Interesting) 164

This reminds me of criticism for Rey from Force Awakens. Spends many years learning about starships by scavenging and repairing them, learning to fight out of necessity, and of course has the magic Force powers to help... Certainly a better training regime than moisture farmer boy got. First thing she does when taking control of a ship is crash it into the ground. Kylo Ren engineers situations to help her learn some basic Force techniques, and then easily bests her in a fight. Somehow this makes her a Mary Sue and a total travesty.

Comment Re:Second Movie In a Row Saving a Dog (Score 1) 164

It's a general problem with stories involving Kryptonians. They are so powerful that the writers always have to find ways to weaken them, or invent a similarly powerful villain to oppose them. That's why kryptonite was originally invented.

Like many comic book stories, you have to suspend your disbelief a bit. None of it makes sense from a physics point of view, any more than most of Star Trek or Star Wars does.

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