Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. "Independent contractor" is the corporate tactic to separate themselves from liability. Every gig economy "own boss" knows this.
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  2. The most promising solutions seem to be pumped-storage hydro (a dam that also pumps water up into the upper reservoir during excess production) and molten salt (heat is very cheap and easy to store compared to electricity)
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  3. 5G is also an improvement in switching between cell sites, because transitions between antennas will be happening far more frequently. Part of the reason installing "Made in China" 5G infrastructure is so controversial is because they're closed-source designs and a simple "update" away from enabling capabilities to track precise movements between the different microsites, not to mention with the huge amount of data business-grade IOT devices are expected to transmit and get copied to a regime hell-bent on entrenching power by any means necessary.
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  4. I'm not so sure. Stealth and maneuverability only go so far against an enemy especially if numbers are on their side. Volumes of targets are where the A-10 would shine, since it's designed specifically to be durable, available, easily repairable, and numerous.
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  5. ​ @shdowdrgonrider More like we got more conservative, terrorized by government spending and reputational risk.
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  6. Cute until they get hangry and start clawing wildly at everything between it and its next eucalyptus-driven food coma
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  7. It was done with humans constantly at the controls. Now we're trying to make a computer do that same task on its own.
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  8. China is able to make a pinpoint landing on Mars on the first try, but fails to install deorbit controls on its spent boosters which is decades-old technology that every other spacefaring program has long implemented. This shows the disturbing priorities of the ruling CPC as they can't be bothered to even try to demilitarize its ICBM-derived Long March rockets.
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  9. And the wealth too. Don't forget how generous government budgets were back then in an age were Boomers just got done being born.
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