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What are the thermal losses on piping the heat exchange fluid up? I can't imagine it's small no matter how well you insulate.

Though if you can drop a reactor down, I'm sure a turbine would fit too.

Thinking vaguely about eBay for this, but apparently it's low enough value it's barely cover the effort. There's Trekkies on here though, and one might be close enough to do pickup, so first dibs.

Begun, the memes have.

https://x.com/chiefofautism/status/2033075790368108984 Guy builds a hobby level "manpad" run by consumer electronics. I haven't dug into it but it comes on the heels of the diy radar. While neither is hardened, milspec hardware, it's sparking debate on costs, research, and how many people ...

Is this compatible with 'Teleparallel Gravity', whose currently disjointed 'flavours' consider both EM ( gamma <--> radio) and gravity as 'twistors' along orthogonal extra-dimensional axes ?? I don't think it's compatible, I know it's a totally different concept. It is one of those that rewrites a ...

I recall a recent tweet by McCulloch on x talking about nano scale cavities harnessing his quantized inertia theory. I'm still wrapping my head around it but he's still working on it. IIRC it's been mentioned on here a long time ago, might be interesting to see opinions on his newer work.

Is the big one part of the same system?

People are already designing some air taxis and such that are all electric, so you could technically say we're already there.

Per Google gasoline is about 12,000 Wh/Kg, after your engine it's 4,500.

Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Sat Dec 27, 2025 12:07 am Is it a Q ship with all those guidance radars and CIWS visible?

Looks more to me as a testbed for on unmanned surface vessel????

It's all containerized and as I understand it can be folded up to disappear.

A quick look at Google shows coins like dimes and nickels weren't much different in weight than older coins. This isn't surprising considering their role as actual currency. More modern ounce coins, even the "trade unit" types, are more collectable and inflation hedge/savings than cash to ...

https://youtu.be/52ZXpjfE0vk?si=Ad4ACLeeSxDGUMyt
Apparently it's a thing. This guy has a thing about thinking cartoons will reunify the peninsula in peace and love but aside from that it looks like a decent review. I haven't used the link to watch any of the subs yet.

Makes me think of the dwarves riding rams in the last Hobbit movie.

Let's just genetically engineer a ridable version of everything.

Everyone is doing a commentary on it.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/10 ... flight-11/

X has been crazy about the condition it was in at the end.

Nuts that it has holes that big.

First time I saw this thread I thought I was gonna see pictures of a church someone saw on a road trip, not a church TAKING a road trip!

Definitely weren't any car guys involved.

A Short History of Machine Tools was 80 or so. I wouldn't mind adding these to my collection but I don't have splurge money right now.

Reminds me of this one:
https://youtu.be/EriZ9ruZq1E?si=lfQ3kOd7DrEkO7MA

How long did the .25 take to get it's reputation as anemic?