I use NewsBlur and GrazeRRS On Android. Free, never miss the stuff I care about. Never see a headline twice: go down the list, swipe right on the stuff I want to read, dismiss the rest. I can read it on the London tube with no network, or in a PC, it is all synchronized. I have been doing this for 15 years (GrazeRRS used to work with Google Reader, it was called NewsRob back then). I haven't found a better option.

Julian Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is a decimal coordinated time system in wide use.

So making it infrastructure dependent will be a bad idea, right? Once you start deploying plasma bombs, all device makers will start depending on it. Lower costs, more efficient, etc. If you want to keep the "infrastructure free method of global communication", you need to keep it active and alive.

You don't get the business on Earth (worth billions) without the antenna up there. refueling half way let's you put a bigger antenna, or use a smaller rocket. I agree that the space industry is full of crap, but this one may be more realistic and significative than most.

There is a lot of business going on in higher earth orbit, for example geosynchronous orbit: comms satellites, weather satellites. Making the fuel to go from low earth orbit (100 km up) to geosynchronous orbit (30000 km up) 6 times cheaper is a big deal.

That is dangerously wrong. A fire safe is designed to keep its internal temperature below 351F. As any Ray Bradbury fan will tell you, that is the temperature paper burns, and that is what they are designed for. USB sticks won't survive that. A media safe will keep your CDs from melting, which probably means that flash memory is safe, but CHECK THE SPECS.

British Museum is my favourite, but 15 min walk away is the British Library (by St Pancras Station). Their "Treasures Room" has some seriously cool books and manuscripts, which you can see in one hour.

PHP gets executed in the server, JavaScript gets executed in the client. Very big difference. For PHP to get input from the user, this input must travel between client and server (which means a page load unless you are using Ajax, which means JavaScript, or an specialized client). Javascript can act on input right in the client.

JavaScript is such a good idea with such a poor execution... The spec is unreadable and ambiguous. The implementations have so many quirks and incompatibilities. I wish we could just kill it and start over.