If I read it right the test railgun in this video actually fires its rounds at about 1/4 of orbital velocity so if you were to make one that had a muzzle velocity about 4 times higher you could use it to deliver heavy nukes. However, with that kind of kinetic payload I'm not sure that you'd need the nuclear…

At least this was actually a plausible threat and was carried out. Actually, that's not such a bad idea lol.

Unless the website that the person posts their endorsement on includes a clause that effectively gives them the rights to your endorsement.

I was thinking about non-power related systems. For example, I'd guess that there are quite a few moving parts that require lubrication and most industrial lubricants that I've heard of are petroleum based.

We're gamers, what do you expect!

Flint, MI got a few Chargers to use as patrol cars a couple years ago and they're so far in the red that the state has performed a takeover and installed an 'emergency manager' for the second time in a decade.

How much oil (or other petroleum based consumables) does a nuclear powered aircraft carrier need to operate annually anyway? I'm not being facetious I'm actually wondering ^_^

You know, that's a very good point.... I wonder what this task force will come up with if this bill passes?

Ok then. Thanks to you and @DCTF for explaining that to me. I just compared this regulation to the fishing ones in some areas of my home state Michigan concerning throwing back certain immature fish. I didn't think about the natural predation angle.

So, Maine has a maximum limit on the size of lobsters that you can take? This sounds kinda strange. Is there any specific reason for this limitation?

Just to inform you, his correction was in jest. It's spelled 'moron'.

Exactly! Remember this: A square is to a rectangle what a rhombus is to a parallelogram. Also, all squares are rectangles and all rhombuses are parallelograms.

Good hack but I've seen (and used unfortunately) cheap computer cases that have the horizontal ports upside-down. Also, for the vertical ports there doesn't seem to be any kind of convention on proper orientation. Just in my apartment I have systems with vertical ports pointing in either direction. I just have to…

I've broken 100GB on 3G before. It can certainly be done ^_^ I was without home internet for a couple months.

Not quite that bad and IIRC there weren't any random encounters on the PS1 versions. You could see the monsters in the over-world and the dungeons.

So do I ^_^ I borrowed Lunar: Silver Star Story from a friend and fortunately ended up sick the next day. So, while I was spending the next day at home from school with the flu, I got to play straight through the game.

Hell, I almost hit the cap on my 'unlimited' cable internet service when I backed up a bunch of data to Carbonite. 241 out of 250 GB. In my first full month as a customer. That would've been horrible.

Some people don't carry much cash anymore.

Thanks for the heads up. I don't know what's happening to this link >_< Here it is again: High Vacuum Electrolysus of a C60 Fullerene Derivative

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