I suspect even something like that would have trouble hiding transactions of this size.

And from your Wiki link:

Because who doesn’t love a 6 hour countdown to launch a critical weapon? The reason we don’t use liquid fuel ICBMs is because of physics. Our adversaries don’t have different physics. We would love it if they did use liquid fuel, because of all the extra warning time it would give us. (Probably plenty of time to flatte…

It was used by the Space Shuttle, and thus by the RS-25 engines which are used for SLS. It has a very high specific impulse of 452 seconds, which means more delta-V for a given mass of fuel. It’s also very clean burning, which is good for the environment, and also for reuse of the engines. (The Space Shuttle used the…

True, which is why the county will lose this case. If the state wants to get tax from boats like this, they can change the law. But until then, there’s no tax on it, and the county has no say in that.

Florida doesn’t have an annual property tax on boats, but some other states do. In California, he would have to pay about 1% of the boat’s value every year. (Separate from the value of the land it is moored on.)

They don’t need one unless they are driving the boat with passengers onboard, and the passengers paid for the trip.

California has an annual property tax on boats, (and cars, too!) in addition to the sales tax. But Florida does not.

From my read, Florida only taxes the sale of a boat, (One time) and does NOT have an annual property tax on them. Here in California, and many other states, there is a annual property tax on boats, on top of the sales tax. So not only is the county missing out because of the $18k cap, they are also “missing out” on…

Here is the same ExoMars 2016 rocket with blue skies before launch:

Millions of people live in close proximity to nuclear waste now, they just don’t think about it.

Unfortunately, it’s not a task we can fully automate, and it’s not something we can ignore. And even if we automated some of it, people will still demand some kind of appeal process to human review, because it would flag legit stuff sometimes.

By sending it on such a high altitude trajectory, they demonstrated how much delta-V it has without risking the test being seen as an actual attack. If they used a lower trajectory, that same delta-V can reach much further. And orbital mechanics dictates how fast it gets there. A full orbit is about 90 minutes, so…

They are not being supplied with food and fuel. The Russian military doesn’t even pick up the bodies when specifically asked and offered. I would not be surprised if they lacked basic equipment like a dogtag, especially the most recent conscripts.

It does at least have metric mode for the display. But apparently not for the tape itself.

A “stunt” usually refers to intentionally risky behavior. The fact that movie stunts are handled with extreme precautions doesn’t change that. If we just called it a crash, then that would downplay the intentionally risky part. Lots of people have had crashes that were not intentional.

Note that this SLS is the one in the middle. The Starship on the far right is also sitting on a pad right now, and just completed cryo testing.

No, these are not general purpose chips for the most part. Many of them are designed for specific use in a specific car part. Tesla has had some luck repurposing chips for some of their shortages, but that was likely because Tesla already designed such parts in a more modular way, and does more parts in-house. For…

Not intentional, but expected when operating at the very theoretical limit of resolution, which is constrained more by the size of the mirror, and less by the number of pixels. They try to minimize it in the design, but it’s impossible to completely eliminate. They won’t always be obvious as in this image, the star in…

They are not colorized in the sense that we “colorize” old B&W films from a century ago. They take multiple photos of the same star with different filters, (some of which are outside of our vision range) and each filter is assigned to a visible color. When the photos are layered, we can see structures that might be…