ITER is well underway with broad international support (hence international in it’s acronym). It turns on in the early 2020's and we will know by the end of that decade if fusion will be in our lifetimes.

Trust me - sub $50 blenders won’t save you money. They have about a two year life span, if you use it twice a year.

Trust me - sub $50 blenders won’t save you money. They have about a two year life span, if you use it twice a year.

So it’s a rating of power out, not power in. Makes sense.

Excuse me, that’s ginormousest.

22 watts? So a giant laser with an aperture the size of a dinner plate is rated for less power than a light bulb?

Prime lens makes sense, a waterproof zoom would be challenging. A smaller, lighter prime lens definitely decreases weight and bulk. Besides, if you need to zoom in to see your subject, are you really close enough to the action that you need a waterproof camera in the first place?

https://xkcd.com/461/

Stirling engines make use of temperature differences, but so do internal combustion and steam engines. Unless you have a magical source of ice, the easiest way to get a temperature difference is with fossil fuels, which are definitely more efficient in steam and internal combustion engines.

Many terrorists are actually well funded, at least to the point that $4,600 would not be a challenge. It’s a little surprising to me that drones have not been used yet. I think it is only the smaller payload that has prevented their use so far.

You know everyone, a tree fell on it, so it’s death was not necessarily precipitated by its captivity...

I’m pretty sure you just got April fooled by the Victorian’s... These are mostly jokes in and of themselves, they didn’t happen. That’s the joke!

So two hundred plus earthquakes that “can be felt by humans” aka “foot massage”. If any surpass a 4.0 “may cause light property damage” let us know. I was born in California, it will take more than a 3.2 to get my undies in a wad...

Curious on that aspect as well. Like ordinary printers(and video games consoles), the relatively low purchase price is almost certainly subsidized by the cost of the supporting materials - ink and software in the case of printers and consoles, and plastic in this toy maker. The plastic, not the printer, will be the…

There was an interesting solution I saw that was developed by the Japanese. It saved gray water from the sink in the toilet tank itself. That would seem like a cheaper retrofit to me, and more reliable in more places. Also, if it was expanded to include shower gray water, it would be enough to completely eliminate…

Carbonated and food colored, if you please.

The Egyptian Pharaohs commissioned the temples, pyramids and other monuments at great cost in order to express their religion, wealth and grandiose self image. If an ordinary person were to “express” themselves on the Pharaoh’s temples, they would likely be charged with blasphemy or grave robbing and killed.

Will this technology be viable in the near future for finding/studying massive dark objects, like supermassive black holes and quasars?

I almost like the transportation fund paid for by oil companies, but it could be better. Replaces taxes on oil companies with large tariffs on oil imports and moderate taxes on domestic oil. This way, foreign oil producers are not given a huge advantage- domestic ones are. This would have the effect of keeping…

It’s not more complicated, it’s just more difficult. It’s very simple - some people need to work harder to keep weight down.