StringJunky

I think it's one-way trip for the first Mars landers. There's no way to take off again.

Making instruments from the same tree will produce different results because even a single tree is not homogenous. There's a luthier on a guitar forum with an engineering bent been doing it for decades and he can't get his guitars to sound the same. There's a fair bit of BS about using different woods to get different sounds... there's too much crossover between species. You have to find the piece of wood -of any kind - that fits your target sonic envelope.

I think this incident in particular highlights the seemingly common habit of police unnecessarily escalating routine traffic situations.

OP: In the useful life of the device, I doubt it.

Theoretical range for nuclear propulsion is 150-350 km/s*. Did a quick calc for travelling to Proxima Centauri at the maximum speed and turned up a figure of around 5815 years. I wouldn't call that a reasonable time, and that's with technology that's still a pipe-dream. That's just 4.37 LYRS covered. * https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3303

But it's necessary technology for interstellar distances to be traversed in reasonable time.

It is reasonable, I think, to think life of some form exists elsewhere, but just a WAG to conclude they can travel between stars. The rate of evolution may limit how far an organism can develop at this point, anywhere. You work with the physics you know... you are ssuming they have near-luminal travel nailed as well.

That could be it and my memory has altered it.

A slight digression: I read years ago a pilot ejected from an EE Lightning jet that wasn't fitted out for him and he lost his legs because he was too tall for it.

Yes, women, being typically shorter, apparently handle high g's better than men.

Ordinary electrical resistance is a source.

AFAIK it only pertains to the US government wrt its citizens.

Here's the Global Trends website for the report: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/gt2040-home/introduction

This is in today's AP news:

Top priority in crises: clean bottoms.

You know better than I do. I just looked to see if there was such a thing as terahertz sound.

SASER. The link is 10 years old.

Can't please everybody. What's changed is that the mods BS detectors have got better and they act sooner.

Shelf-life of capacitors: https://passive-components.eu/get-the-lowdown-on-shelf-life-and-storage-of-capacitors/

Here's a chart of self-discharge rates in various capacitors. Any use?

If we remove all material around the hole, does the hole still exist? The existence of the hole is contingent on that material. Holes cannot live an independent existence... it is an abstract concept. It falls in the same category as say length

I think intersubjective consensus is as close we can be to being truly objective... we are all bound by our physiological limitations and the best we can do is find where our observations agree, which may include using tools.

Modelled myself but had seen another member use the term as well since (ydoaps).

I would call that intersubjective consensus.