I read somewhere that steam is more reliable in the dirty , salty enviroment of a carrier deck but maybe that was back in the day and not now.

Don't ride those electric trains or drive an EV or stand near a washing machine, and especially if you're near a 5G tower, have been vaccinated and are taking paracetamol!

"As far as raw physical strength? LOL, who cares about that. We have long since moved past physical strength making any difference in our modern economy"

Says someone who's never worked on a farm. Machinery can't do everything.

" We have female soldiers"

Not frontline or special ops. There's a reason for that.

" I mean, how much do you think Elon or Gates can bench at their best? Yeah, no one cares."

In undeveloped rural economies it can be a big deal. But I wouldn't expect a brainwashed yank to understand.

I recently read that the sales price is $105M but the lifetime maintenance cost is budgeted at $300M.

yeah, that's why SCOTUS was not given Judicial Review powers in the Constitution and just declared fifteen years later that it had that ultimate power "because we have to".

The Legislature is supposed to manage this nonsense. It has been in a coma since 1995.

Zero male involvement? Unless some amazing advance in genetics has occurred today I'm pretty sure sperm is still required for a woman to get pregnant whether it's on the spot or donated.

As for doing everything men can do , guess you've drunk the kool aid. Mentally sure, physically - nope. Not only are they considerably physically weaker in raw strength but their monthly cycles screw with what strength and endurance they do have.

Self-driving cars are a lot more capital intensive, because Über would have to buy them, whereas they don't have to buy the human-driven cars they use at the moment.

"Solar energy is currently significantly cheaper than coal, with costs for solar energy averaging around $23.52 per megawatt-hour compared to coal's $43.80 per megawatt-hour."

Given its small size it might be better to land a small mining module on the rock and then carve it up in situ to expand that module into a small space station.

We need to do this with the Taurus cluster to prevent another Tunguska event, but better to start small and practice closer. It's so much more profitable to not lift mass from Earth than it is to send it down.

Taurus has enough asteroids to build Space Station Alpha. Might be a nice vacation spot.

What if it's 299,792.458 km?

Do we send the SYN-ACK?

North Korea?

I agree with what you say, similar issues with rain and water levels here in the UK though not quite as bad as it sounds over there. Ironically however looking at Ventusky right now it seems there's rain over half of west germany so hopefully that'll help.

Probably the air too in the med - not everyone goes swimming but everyone wants to go outside, not just sit in the hotel. If its 40C+ who's going to want to do that?

This. Young single people renting who can just up and go anytime really have no idea what it's like to be responsible for a family and have a mortgage.

Thanks for chiming in, Mr. Joyce.

Will usually get you to the Linux console login from an X session screen locked or not (unless its been disabled in the X config). Obviously you need to know a login but even so, the lock is hardly bulletproof. No idea what wayland does, probably screen locking is another optional extra that needs to be implemented by the user or something.