More than half of that is the oxygen you breath in, and right back out (with a carbon attached), with no net change.  That’s certainly valuable for someone trying to figure out how much upmass is required for life support consumables, but less so for measuring weight loss...

8ft on Earth and 48ft on the Moon gets you the same energy when carrying the same 30lb load. You then have to absorb that energy, in addition to the extra gravity you’re experiencing in the process. If you can absorb that fall in 2ft of travel, that’s around 4Gs, plus one more G for Earth gravity, or 1/6th for the…

Crew will return in Orion and HLS will either be yeeted out to deep space or possibly be reused.

The crew comes and goes in the Orion because they needed to give SLS a token job to perform.

Again, you don’t get shocked by 240V any more than you get shocked by 480V, because that is not the difference to neutral/ground. If you grab a leg of a 240V split-phase system, you will see 120V. If you grab a leg of a 480V three-phase system, you will see 277V. The only reason you would see 240V on a leg is because y…

Who is spending $150K on a Model 3?

I remember when doing your own home improvement was calling “being handy”.  When did that turn into “being a cultist”?

No. In a NA 240V system, there are two lines and a neutral. Each line carries one phase, for a total of two phases, 180° shifted.

240 is much more dangerous because the higher voltage will develop twice the current through the same resistance as 120v. Meaning you’ll get twice the current through you when you’re shocked by 240.

You do realize that 240V is still just regular old house current, right?  It’s 240V leg-to-leg, but it’s only 120V to neutral.  Assuming you’re not somehow bonded to one of the phases, you’ll only ever see 120V.

It’s still entirely likely that these are 1%rs purposefully turning them off to avoid detection... it’s just not illegal to do so.

You were also suggesting a “cheap” system.  What you’re suggesting does exist.  They’re used on military aircraft as a passive alternative to radar, and they’re enormously expensive.

And this right here, folks, is the kind of stupidity that keeps causing things like measles flare ups.  When the internet is right there to readily and quickly correct your mistaken beliefs, and you keep those beliefs, it stops being ignorance.

So don’t fly when there are sandstorms about.  That’s not going to be too difficult, since they won’t be able to gather enough energy to fly during a sandstorm anyway.

truck buyers complain enough that the sides of truck beds are too high

A giant bipedal robot would be easy pickings for any flying machine.

Just look at any real bipedal robot and see how quick and agile it has to be.

Sooo.... how do you explain it appearing to balance quite well while swinging its other leg around in the air?

An amphibious aircraft can land on both land and water. This is a seaplane online, not an amphibian.

He didn’t seem to be a very successful one.  Should have been driving a Mustang.