Tuna steaks, well done

Some of this is respect for the cost: you could have had canned tuna, but decided to spend a lot of money to turn a good fish into something like canned tuna

Thanks. I’ll take a look for it. Not listed as an e-book at my library so I might have to look for a physical copy

Good point - I’m probably remembering fiction, but also Soviet Union attempting to target the aircraft

…. And we have the incidents of overflying Swedish airspace, and I think Danish

Didn’t you hear? The war is over. We “won”…… TACO sez, “ I didn’t say it, I declared it”

Satellites do have such restrictions. While you may expect the angle to be higher than for an aircraft, a satellite will not be directly overhead most of the earth. You’re still limited by angle and shadow, as well as time and frequency. Unless the target is high enough priority to reposition the satellite, it will be an oblique angle at a predictable time. While that angle will on average be higher than an aircraft, the aircraft can find different angles, at different times, with as much frequency as you like.

Perhaps some things are more visible to an aircraft from the east than a satellite from the north, or perhaps the target has camouflage procedures at the known satellite schedule but an aircraft is more likely to catch them operating

Going by the way my brother describes his company’s products …. They start by defining the labor costs and profit: those don’t really change regardless of the product quality. The price is already mostly defined. Ingredients are dirt cheap, so they’ll add just enough ingredients of just enough quality so you’ll buy it

Same definition. While i didn’t see a definition, they talked about each person knowing an average 611 people.

The first one that I was aware of, was in high school. The father of one of my friends did not wear a seatbelt while driving in an open jeep … until he no longer was in the jeep

The second was a few years later in college. My middle school bully was driving his motorcycle at ridiculous speeds through town and missed the road. I was not upset

To speculate further, the stated reason for attacking Iran was nuclear weapon development. Perhaps there are sensors to track that, that can’t operate from satellite

During the Cold War, it had to overfly Russian airspace to be able to see far enough. They were within their rights to shoot at unauthorized aircraft in their airspace.

However, it could see a lot higher percentage of Iran without overflying, and Iran can’t legally shoot at something in international airspace

It’s fun speculation to assume this is for military reasons but remember nasa s a civilian agency. Perhaps it’s connected to their research on supersonic and hypersonic flights

Don’t you check upcoming meetings? Such as at the beginning of the day?

Once accepted, why would you care when any specific meeting is, just which ones are coming soon?

Granted I track things requiring significant effort through other mechanisms, so my meeting prep is more typically checking statuses and collecting data/summaries

In space there is only radiative method available

But on the moon you’d also have conductive, and be able to connect directly to a massive heat sink

Thanks. I’ve never been to Atlanta but my brother is there now so I might visit

I know, let’s take their drivers license. That’ll get them …… driving with no insurance and more likely to run rather than stop

Where’d you get it? I’ve never seen it as bison before.

…… looking longingly at my order of bison from Costco that absolutely does not claim to be safe raw but people online go fir it

God, that’s so HOT!

Thin crust, various toppings - I’m bored with basic pepperoni

• ricotta and sausage
• anything white
• whatever “carnivore special“ they’re having at my favorite place (that may have closed)

Nuclear was probably the best choice in the 1970’s; France made the best choice. But we’ve seen over and over again the problems are getting worse rather than better. Paperwork and process ever more unwieldy. Construction taking longer and longer. Radioactive waste building up with no permanent disposal. By far the highest cost power generation, and the difference is getting wider.

Much of the posts about how great it will be this time is just astroturfing by those trying to profit. No, “small modular reactors”, didn’t solve the cost, construction, or process issues, but only raised the cost of generation. No, thorium isn’t the silver bullet and really doesn’t exist yet.

Yeah it was good when it was awkward comedy