I think being plasma-arc gassified would be pretty clean: your volatiles are combusted to generate electricity, and the remaining slag brick could be carved or inscribed as a memorial.

I guess we lucked out that a couple really effective vaccines were the earliest approved, but there’s still plenty of development work to be done. Will we be OK with a vaccine with 75 or 80% efficacy that doesn’t require extreme cold temps to store? Or a more effective one-shot that has a broader range of side effects?

If ships took off against the galactic rotation and toward the center, wouldn’t they cover more ground with less energy? Also don’t risks like supernovae, gamma ray bursts, black holes, etc increase closer to the core due to the increase in density?

Building trends down there basically presume central cooling, and don’t even take into consideration cross breezes, shade, reflectivity, etc and vast swaths of Texas would be utterly uninhabitable without air conditioning and pumped irrigation. It’s ironic that the state is so perfect for home solar, yet so dead-set…

Surely there’s a carve-out in that law for, you know, threats of violence, but hey, if no charges come of this, that just puts Florida ahead in the race for US states trying to become third-world dystopian hellscapes.

If you haven’t seen ARCHENEMY yet, do definitely check it out. It’s currently in the Top 10 on iTunes movies in both new releases and indie categories, is the #1 Sci-fi streamer/download, and is in the Top 10 trending overall (if you don’t count all the holiday movies!).  I caught the Alamo Drafthouse release party…

It intuitively makes sense to have the vaccine or counter-agent enter the body at the same point that the infection would, but there seems to be a mixed success with nasal mist vaccines.  I’ve also wondered if inoculating the nasal mucosa with probiotic bacteria might confer some protection against respiratory…

So, 8ghz is in the microwave range of the spectrum, and can induce voltages in unshielded circuits. With how closely spaced conductors are in and around the CPU, how is this not a problem? Or is it just that the voltages are so small the effect doesn’t have enough range?

My pal Mr. Observation Man addressed the Canada Goose hubbub a while back...as peeps were getting relieved of their parkas at gunpoint here in The City of Big Shoulders.  In this economy, I can think of alot of better ways to spend a grand, and still stay toasty warm when the next polar vortex inevitably descends.

My pal Mr. Observation Man addressed the Canada Goose hubbub a while back...as peeps were getting relieved of their…

Not for nothing:  one of the CARES Act provisions allows for shopping the marketplace plans if your job-provided healthcare was lost or changed due to COVID, regardless of the open enrollment window.

I’ll go out on a limb and posit that vaccine work did not start in the US the same time as the UK, and I’m also gonna venture that the UK vaccine efforts weren’t encumbered or outright obstructed by imbeciles in government like they were/are here in the US, or at least not to the same extent.  Constant blabber about…

Is the (guarded) statement that the side effects “might be a little more severe” based on anything in particular? Is it just that there are two doses, so potentially double the chance for showing a side effect, any side effect? Or has info been released as to what sort of adjuvants, buffers and/or preservatives to…

Before I clicked the headline, I *KNEW* the gist and tone of the inevitable quote from the police union rep, and I was not disappointed.

Thanks for the piece Germain!  I’m one of the (many) investors in this film, and I’m going to check into getting you a screener.  We’re SO psyched for this release!  Excelsior!  #LegionM

I think (hope) an argument could be made that the “except in cases of impeachment” part of the clause should be interpreted to mean that if the President has been impeached, then issuing pardons is no longer within his power. That’s a longshot, I know, particularly given the current complexion of the Supremes, but I’m…

If Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action has stayed on track, based on reported numbers, she’ll have added another 30,000 new registered voters to the rolls by December (presumably mostly Democrats).

TSA is famously bad at their sole mission of security screening, so adding this into the mix seems like a horrible plan. Why not have the airline put some people to work (see what I did there?) and do the temperature check AT CHECK IN? The airlines get to keep some more people working, and all the high temp folk never…

Beto specifically called out assault weapons, and it was after the insane Walmart shooting in El Paso - “weapons of war” was his exact turn of phrase, I believe.

How did “man’s inherent right to self-defense” play out prior to the invention of the gun? Why didn’t it get upgraded upon the invention of the cannon, or the ballistic missile - i.e. why did it stop with guns? What of the data that a man’s gun is statistically a larger danger to himself and his family than an intruder…

Showing up at the wrong address kinda invalidates the whole police defense, doesn’t it? No warrant and no probable cause to be there in the first place, so the entry and any commands (allegedly) issued would all be unlawful.  Also, is it normal for officers conducting a raid to have no prior knowledge or familiarity…