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well a funny looking bizjet

specifications for the X-70, saying it is designed to cruise at Mach .75, reach altitudes of up to 45,000 feet, and provide an operational range exceeding about 1,726 miles (1,500 nautical miles). The aircraft’s takeoff weight is 10,000 pounds, of which up to 2,000 pounds are dedicated to experimen...

You'd think in 60 years they'd be able to pick 23 bangers. No such luck. Introduction / Gordon Van Gelder -- Of time and Third Avenue / Alfred Bester -- All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury -- One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson -- A touch of strange / Theodore Sturgeon -- Eastward ho! / ...

No, but I see they have Kingmaker, an excellent war of the roses game.

I hadn't realised the Old Dart took Halloween even slightly seriously. The big deal when I was growing up was Guy Fawke's Night.

Hopefully you've read some SF by the other Alfred Bester.

I can rarely stand listening to videos of lectures but his one on the 7 sins of aircraft design was great.

I bet the TT gets a lot of attention from people who like that sort of thing

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I'm sure you back everything up, make sure it is complete. You are now in Challenger O ring territory, specifically as Feynman said, the time to start worrying is when the system does not behave as expected, not when it finally fails.

Age dependent, I think. I had a couple of friends die in their 40s, and their SFs spent a very quiet couple of years afterwards, whereas 65+ there's a fair bit of FOMO/YOLO as the mortality/Alzheimers/serious illness probability ramps up.

I was going to say "says the man who doesn't know much about Sparta" but yours is better.

let me guess, operator was on phone.

measured gravimetric energy density is 409 Wh/kg

For comparison lead acids are around 30 Wh/kg, my shiny new LIFePo batteries are about 140 (in cases, the Donut number is for bare cells no doubt).

When you get dragged into the inevitable investigation, maybe suggest some sort of brake light thingo attach to the load? It doesn't need to be wired in, battery operated with a g sensor and ideally a speed sensor, red light comes on when slowing and flashes when stationary.

So effectively EMALS doubles the fatigue life of the aircraft. Sounds good.

So far as the jolt goes, what is it like compared with the controlled crash at the end of each flight? Apparently the airframes don't have a defined number of takeoffs before being torn down or replaced, unlike say civil airliners where the number of pressure cycles is logged.

The steam catapults are a lot bigger than the EMALS and need a steam buffer, and a lot of pipework. So retrofitting steam catapults is essentially a complete redesign between the flight deck and the keel. So 10 years. Fun factoid each launch uses the same energy as 4 gallons of diesel. The steam is ...

Just Facts (which seems to have a conservative slant) tested the big 4 LLMs with some reasonably well designed questions. The LLMs got about 3/4 of them right, but lied, made up references, and used webpages that stated the opposite to support their answers. https://www.justfacts.com/news_artificial...

I think you'll find that 2.5 years is a reasonable estimate for the redesign, even though it is known tech.

You can certainly design a house to be comfortable in 35 deg C heat, but it has to be deliberately designed that way. Overhanging eaves to block direct sun (or window shades) double glazing on all the main glass and insulation up the wazoo. We got by without a/c, just relied on ceiling fans, but suc...