Only in theory. Shit, King Charles in theory has the power of a dictator. Parliament is Supreme, and excepting the period of the UK being in the EU, has been since 1688.

The fact is that the UK left the EU by an act of Parliament...ultimate supremacy. The UK delegated some powers to the EU but it didn't surrender supremacy as history now shows.

Little paperclip is going to need about maybe, i dunno, 10cm of erodable shielding up front to absorb the dust debris in its flight path. These kind of stories always get excited and forget the shielding. Space isn't empty.

"squeezing it with the same pressure the outside of a submarine would feel 500 feet below the waves"

- The same pressure anything would be experience at the same depth. Oh but it's a submarine, so much more intuitive.
- 500 ft is about 150m
- rho.h.g can be approximated as 1 bar per 10m

"pressurizing the gas to approximately 15 bar". Thank you.

"I used to be a bartender. Now I own a boat!"

I think you are confused. Allow me. The US gets to keep the dollar, no change there. The issue is the federal debt which is now heading up bigly, thanks to blagger boy's bill. It may head into very problematic territory if the promised GDP growth does not materialise alongside. Debt service will become too great. Printing money will follow and then it's inflation and you're heading to Zimbabwe. Meanwhile the greenback gets ditched; bad timing because we are just about at the point where China is starting to look like a reasonable alternative partner in comparison.

For real

Fuck's sake, Calcite is not an "ingredient" of limestone. Why do you write this stuff?

Concise and utter bollocks. I truly hope you troll for a living.

This is the correct geek answer

It's called a wing. If lift is anti-gravity. Which it is.

But if it isn't geosynchronous orbit tall, you will step out of orbit pretty fucking quickly too.

They've been managing water for 500 or more years, and they know how to build dykes. They can handle it.

Yup, that's what does it. How does the city drown? Slowly at first, and then all at once. Storm force winds, blowing onshore, on a high tide maximum.

and they finally 404 it entirely.

Can't be long, sad to say this site is beyond knackered, even though, incredibly, despite the descent some good voices remain.

Then there's EBS nowadays too. EBS detects heavy braking events and applies the brake more forcefully, so potentially improving braking distance. Not everybody stamps on the brakes hard enough when confronted by the unexpected.