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The requirements for certification for safety (or other quality) standards don't require every item to be tested. I'm not familiar with...

Is this another one of these threads wherein everything was better when I was young and impressionable?

Interesting but I am not surprised that there would be mutation/selection, ie adaptation, however it isn't clear to me what conditions...

Regulated and enforced safety standards seem necessary, ie the cheap counterfeits should be detected and rejected. De-funding regulatory...

While we are waiting for the nuclear industry to find its feet we should keep adding wind, solar and batteries and see how far that can...

I think it is as simple as the explanation found unsatisfactory in the first para of the initial post - Put the fan in a duct and the...

I think I'd get murderized if I try to get it moved to sci-fi... :-p

'We would weigh around 20lbs' But would it be? As a novelty, for a short time maybe. Longer term probably increasingly uncomfortable -...

Artificial habitats make conditions just right. Gravity is just one of the potential constraints, but with rotation is readily solvable...

My calcs show this to have .112g on the inside surface. I'd weigh 20lbs. Less than the Moon, where I'd weigh 29lbs.

No reason to think they are artificial and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - but making them increases the views and...

Um, sci-fi stories are about "the context of possible engineering" that doesn't currently exist. In our actual science forums like the...

... then we can have it invent any kind of propulsion we want - even wormholes and warp drives - and all of us can go anywhere we want...

I think real world experience suggests lots of humans are quite willing to reduce their birthrates and choose small family sizes - and...

When several times the mass of an asteroid is needed for reaction mass just to push an asteroid to modest delta-v such as moving around...