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  • Partially. Inverters providing virtual inertia is good but has the problem of still being active and reactive. It helps and is cheaper and more efficient than flywheels.

    Flywheels and turbines however provide a very sticky frequency. They help out a lot with stability and give inverters time to respond.

    Think balancing a stick on your hand vs anchoring it in clay.

    If we take enough turbines off line we are still probably going to need some mechanical power stabilization no matter how inefficient.

    But yeah I think we are going to see a blend using as much electrical and as little mechanical as possible.





  • If you are trying to steel credentials from people with power and money passengers in first class are a good target.

    Where else are you going to find a cluster of people like that that are using the wifi and are going to be there for hours. It’s about as optimal as I can think of.

    Even better if you are targeting a spefic company. Just pick flights out of the headquarters for that company.

    If you want to attack say Microsoft pick a flight from Seattle to DC. Pretty good odds of a Microsoft high up being on the flight and wanting to use the wifi for work.





  • An alternative is we are among the first. Third generation stars are the ones that have planets with enough heavy elements to allow for complex chemistry. Sol (our star) is thought to be among the first batch of third generation stars in our gallexy.

    Light speed does seem to be the upper speed limit for the universe. Talking that into account we probably haven’t had a chance to see other early life as it would likely be spread pretty thin right now.



  • Which is odd that some people care so much about this. Games Workshop used to make female space marine models but stopped because they didn’t sell well.

    My head canon is that with all the hormones to boost mucles, organs changed out, bones merged with ceramics, extra heart, special space marine reproductive organ in the chest, black carapace, acid spit, memory eating organ, etc. Doesn’t matter if you start with Judy Garland or Arnold Schwarzenegger you get Lou Ferrigno at the end.




  • It’s an interesting question as far as dead naming as well. Normally it’s just a dick move or an accident because of old habits. But in the case of people who did important work that might be published under an old name it can be useful to get them the credit.

    I’m a computer engineer so I looked up her work to see if I was familiar with it. I was wondering if I would need to lookup her dead name to find her important work. In her case her big book (which I recognized immediately and have on my shelf) was published after her transition so it wasn’t necessary.

    If it had been written pre transition it would have been a shame to not know she was the author.