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Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn’t really provide that big of a benefit.
Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a ‘replaces traditional rail’ degree) for 200 years.
Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn’t really provide that big of a benefit.
Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a ‘replaces traditional rail’ degree) for 200 years.
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Also invented CFCs (the stuff that put the hole in the ozone layer).
In his later years, he had limited mobility, so he designed a system of pulleys and levers to give him some degree of independence. Eventually, he was found strangled by his contraption.
It’s a prion disease. Mad Cow, Creutzfeldt-Jacob, Chronic Wasting (so far only seen in deer), and Scrapies (known of for a long time and so far limited to sheep and goats) all start with a misfolded protein and gradually break down the brain till it looks like a sponge.
At last, able-bodied adults will join kids and pets in checks notes dying in a hot car
9/11, Never Forget.
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Ah fuck, it’s been scraping the Facebook comments under every math problem with parentheses that was posted for ‘engagement’
As far as untested tech solutions to climate change go, I’ll gladly take artificial albedo over the “let’s blot out the sun” that they’ve been floating the last few years.
As much Saudi money as he burned though, I’m expecting him to leave an embassy in a half dozen suitcases.
C*s-Alpine Gaul
C*skei
That’s good advice. Shame he and his colleagues didn’t follow it in 303 Creative