@wasatch_wind @culpable_mink I can’t help thinking that people susceptible to that were already taken out by anime girls …

@60sJapanfan I mean, we always have - we accept EU licenses, and we let people drive for a year on other foreign licenses because any much shorter period would screw over tourists renting cars.

@GrandpaRoy2 The wheel revolves - I remember reading novels about the Yom Kippur war in 1973 describing the desert littered with the wires from wire-guided anti-tank guided missiles

@Robotbeat @rjohnhacker You certainly wouldn’t use synthetic methane for DR steel production, since step one is ‘convert methane to CO and H2’ - methane is not itself a reducing agent!

@simoncwrightson @jessralston2 @Telegraph You don’t need to do that, a higher-temperature air-to-water heat pump works fine with unaltered radiators in our Victorian house.

@jessralston2 @Telegraph It goes quite slowly to the homeowner - there are many people whose cash flow has a bit of trouble with £7500 out in 2021 and £400 a quarter in for the next twenty quarters.

@BenRamanauskas There is very little concern about people showing off their vroom vroom with Granny or their baby in the car; add blanket permission for relatives.

@MiamiCapitalist @culpable_mink Not really - you can grow some kinds of fancy veg, but the cost advantage for getting your light from the sun rather than from LEDs is so enormous that indoor farming of staple crops is absurd.

@maxwell_marlow @DavidDavisMP Or one fool driving badly at seventy by himself rather than at a hundred to show off to the girl in the passenger seat, and three kids being driven around by slightly grumpy parents or missing the party.

@perrymetzger There are a lot of lifeless rocks here which we want to protect - start with Uluru and Half Dome. It might well be worth coming in with a presumption of protecting Lunar and Martian vistas.

@thomasforth It looks as if China has a reasonably strong fabless / foundry division, Wingtech appears to be the biggest company that does both and is much smaller than Samsung. SMIC is the deliberately-TSMC-like state foundry champion.

@unfilteredGray @TerribleMaps French Guyana is part of France, meaning France’s longest land border is with Brazil.

@culpable_mink Yes, but the ‘practical’ starting materials are an incredibly rare isotope of mercury or the third most common isotope of platinun

@JackKuhr @NZ2257 @PettitFrontier I nearly bought the set of 2024 Christmas socks showing Shuttle stack, Shuttle on orbit, NASA worm, NASA meatball and a fighter plane in red white and blue as a sign of how wrong current perceptions of space are …

@theobertram ‘Disposable’ is surely more than just ‘after tax’ - I think of it as also after housing costs, food and utilities.

@iainoverton @haynesdeborah @RUSI_org Yes, our army would not last long in a land war of attrition; but we are an island nation with a navy, an air force, Storm Shadow and in ultimum Trident.

@newsstudy2_ssc @esa @isro @ESA_Tech @RedwireSpace @ESA_BE Yes, there are three operational pads at Satish Dhawan

@MarcusCVance Agreed. Food insecurity is almost always imposed - competent governments can feed people that they want to be fed. Massive emigration was undeniably the reaction to the imposed food insecurity.

@culpable_mink This is nonsense: you can’t make the numbers work exporting platinum from near Earth asteroids, let alone food from Mars! Food growing on Mars will be only for Martians!

@MarcusCVance @culpable_mink It’s always a major driver of *migration* - Irish to Chicago in the 1840s a really clear example. There are places that were colonised for agriculture - Brazilian savannah, the Great Plains - but generally by well-fed farmers aiming to farm at scale for a city population.