Christoph Bergs, of the Military Aviation History YouTube channel, has a video comparing the incident rate of the F-35 to other US front-line fighters:

From a perusal of the Wikipedia article on the Rolls-Royce F-135 lift system used in the F-35, I believe that you’re correct; if the shaft feeding power to the front lift fans declutched (as it would be for normal flight), then it would stop providing lift to the front of the plane, and the elimination of the power…

Still, you have to remember that every stupid and obvious safety warning you see on a product represents someone who did that and tried to get the manufacturer to pay them for their stupidity.

I agree — the real “test of wits” is whether you have enough to know better than to step onto the thing in the first place.

“...specifically tailored to show the systems in their best lights...”

And that’s a disservice to all of the “teenagers” that the Army Air Corps and Navy put into armed aircraft and sent to war. Age alone is not a measure of maturity, and as the other responders have pointed out, you have to go through a process a lot more rigorous than getting a driver’s license in order to get a…

Well, there’s the “nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to use that content for any purpose” that WotC is taking, which means that, once you’ve put your own effort and money into creating something, WotC can grab it, bundle it into something else or just relabel it, and…

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_iron for the history of the ‘pie iron’, the sandwich press tool referred to in the article, which was patented in 1925 in the US, with the ‘Jaffle’ brand iron patented in 1949 in Australia. 

And then even more wind and solar — if you’ve got the wind and solar generation to cover 100% of your power needs, having enough battery capacity to cover that load through the periods when you’re only getting 10% production from them isn’t going to do you any good if you can’t charge them again before the next time…

Given the “sweep it under the rug” attitude a lot of police departments seem to have, the 65-day suspension would likely be for being so incompetent with a firearm that he missed the officer he was shooting at, even if he was exhibiting “unglaubliche Trunkenheit” at the time.

It’s a time versus temperature thing. For example, if you heat chicken to 165°F, you will have killed all the bacteria in/on the meat just by getting it to that temperature, but that usually leaves you with dry, chewy meat. You can get the same results for eradicating bacteria at lower temperatures, at the cost of…

Not just the variability in the carrots themselves, but you don’t have the problem of the narrow ends getting soft and limp by the time the thick ends have the correct doneness; it all comes up to the same condition.

“You might think you can get one order and split them with someone you care about. You would be wrong.”

That way, it doesn’t matter what happens, it can all be laid at the feet of “climate change”. Hotter temperatures? Climate change. Colder temperatures? Climate change. More rain? Climate change. Droughts? Climate change. Shoot first, then call whatever you hit your target.

So the point of this technology is to take the water vapor over the ocean border and extract it for drinking water. And, at least for California, rendering the air moving inland from the ocean dryer, reducing the rainfall up in the mountains, which would exacerbates drought conditions.

Toas-Tite was making their pie irons back in 1949, so there’s decades of prior art there, but Cornish pasties — crustless pocket sandwiches with a crimped edge — go back centuries.

So Smuckers is trying to get away with claiming trademark protection after losing their patent protection on a ‘crustless filled sandwich with a crimped edge’ after the company they sued in 2001, Albie’s Foods, Inc., produced proof that a crustless filled pocket sandwich with a crimped edge had been known as a ‘pasty’…

“Problem #1 - the lasers are only about 1% efficient at turning electricity into laser energy. This takes that Q=1.5 down to Qe=0.015"

The methods being used to produce fusion don’t work that way; in the mechanism being reported on today, a tiny pellet of gold-coated uranium containing a few grams of heavy hydrogen gets compressed by a bank of laser beams; once the hydrogen fuses, the reaction chokes off and has to be repeated with a fresh fuel…

That procedure reminds me of the South African ‘bunny chow’, an Indian dish you’ll never find in India. Take an unsliced loaf of bread, cut it in half, stand the halves on end, dig out most of the white interior, and fill it with a meat or vegetable curry, depending on your dietary preferences.