Its like it does not matter how bad the reality of climate change is, the media will report the guy who says its even worse.
Then maybe the extreme prediction is debunked, so people stop worrying, when the reality is still very bad.
Are microplastics bad like asbestos, or just the latest in a long line of scares of the day, like aluminium saucepans or cholesterol?
The first fission reactor in space, the American SNAP-10A had an experimental ion thruster.
The Soviets launched dozens of nuclear powered satellites, but again, thrusters were only used experimentally.
So while not actually "the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft" (RTGs win that) it is the first nuclear-powered rocket in space, aside from small experiments.
With only 2N thrust, it is no use below LEO, and solar power is plenty good enough for ion-drives in earthly satellites. So nuclear-powered rockets are only useful for interplanetary missions, for now.
If the launch fails at a point where it is say 50 miles up, and the reactor has been turned on prior to launch so that the core is now highly radioactive
You've answered your own question. Don't turn it on until safely in orbit.
Usually that sort of question comes from people who don't understand that reactor fuel is barely radioactive (only the waste).
If only you could get to Mars by burning investor capital and government grants.
I've yet to meet one person who has even heard of, let alone wants a Chinese EV.
You must be in the US
And there was a student parking lot.
I assumed all American high schools had student parking.
How else are the kids going to get to school? Walking or public transport ? hahaha!
Oh yeah, those weird buses painted yellow, with the engine sticking out the front, like on a car. So the kids don't have to mix with public transport like in any other country.
Thats so condescending. And stupid. You think there are not many data centres in or near NYC?
Moving them frees up power for homes. And it is actually happening, just not enough.
The other reason, it turns out, is greenwashing. More hydro-power in NYC improves their paper renewables targets in a way that moving heavy power users does not.
and a lot cheaper to just move the data centres to northern NY State, and run fiber optics down to the city?
"The space agency said there is a one in 4,200 chance of being harmed by a piece of the probe"
Who is more foolish? The author, the proof-reader (is that still a thing?), or the Slashdot editor who copy-pasted this without question?
I think I can improve my odds by staying indoors.
BTW, 600 kg is tiny. Skylab was 90 ton.
Eh? The use of plural "they" is kind of weird, since Caitlin is very much a singular woman, and identifies as such.
She has long been a political activist, focussing on tribal identity politics, a woman and a lesbian being more important than being a person or whatever the job was. So OpenAI can hardly act surprised when a scorpion bites them.
Indonesia, a country with such extreme relious ideology, the drinking age is 21.
Did you know there was a great show they simply remade with higher production costs?
Was the "You may well ask that, but I couldn't possibly comment." quote not a give-away?
But given the original was a set of 4-part mini-series, I would not say "simply" remade.
As for cancelling Spacey, they had no choice.
the situation became impossible for Netflix to ignore when eight current and former House of Cards employees came forward. They described a "toxic" work environment and alleged that Spacey had engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment on the set of the show itself. At that point, keeping him became a massive legal and HR liability.
Who decides what time zone a state is in?
In the USA? Aside from geography, ultimately it is the DoT.
But time zones are not at the state level. Many state are split.
"Permanent DST" is identical to "move time zones one zone to the east".
Somewhat. But under US law the former is illegal, while the latter needs federal approval.
But if you want to get up an hour earlier, just do it. You don't need to change the clocks.
M$ is an evil corproration run by evil people for evil people, why would anyone want to support that?
Hello and welcome to 2026. i don't blame you, nobody could have foreseen this, but apparently Microsoft is no longer evil.
WSL2, github, VS Code
BLISS is ignorance.
