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What I've read says that this is a modular system, likely some variants will launch small air to air missles, and others use large shotgun shells to take out drones.

The plug didn't have to be reversible - it could just have had a trapezoidal cross-section. No significant cost.

Terrific. Maybe not the most alluring framing.

Could be titled "Hate Elon? OMFG would you have hated Edison! He was way worse!"

Scientists didn't start getting in the way of progress yesterday. It's a tradition:

When the dynamo prototype was finished, it operated so contrary to existing best-practice that Edison was mocked for it. John Tyndall — the physicist to whom discovery of the greenhouse effect is often attributed – wrote in the Journal of Gas Lighting, ‘It is difficult to adequately express the ludicrous inefficiency of the arrangement; but one thing is abundantly certain, and that is that the person who seriously proposed it was wholly destitute of a scientific knowledge of either electricity or the science of energy.’

Someone needs to sue any manufacturer that uses blue leds on anything that might have to be on at night.

I might mention that, believe it or don't - a living skull is translucent, and our brains can detect light all by themselves. So a mask is good, but not nec a whole solution.

In old experiments, just the light coming in under a door diminished melatonin in mice.

Right. But a dark room is a room in which, if you put your hand in front of your face, you don't see even the faintest outline of a hand.

How poignant, that the obvious solution is the worst "solution" of all, due to human nature.

Not to mention the wooden beams, under the portico, which are also original. They of course, are out of the rain; so are a solution to a lesser problem, where aging is concerned.

The famous example illustrating PD created by Albert W. Tucker does have no communication - so that parties don't coordinate and cooperate with each other - but in this case with thousands of parties, there was no way to coordinate them all, or communicate with them all in time, or trust them all, so it still counts. It's possible to set up prisoner's dilemmas with communication, say in cases where it's a one off and the parties have every reason not to trust each other's word.

Taking the fuel out of the wings and thinning them makes sense. You couldn't make this fly in 1959; but I'm willing to bet that you can now with computer control. We should all be ashamed for not having thought of it, I suppose.

For that to happen, it can't be gravity that keeps a single molecule near long enough for that to happen - dipole forces at a fairly large distance in vacuum over enough time... maybe... at enough distance from the sun. Maybe. Maybe.

Static electrical field from the asteroid, stoked by the sun?