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Sure, stick to the Model T, why not. It had wheels and seats, so there's that.

What’s more, it creates an incentive to accept more papers for publication, with obvious implications for quality.

To be fair, Americans use decimal already where it’s dearest to the heart: money, ammunition, and filling gasoline.

Efficiency is the standard red herring of the battery crowd - if efficiency was the prime motivation, we would all be driving bicycles and SUV or sportscars would not exist.

What are your other metrics? It’s an electric drivetrain with all advantages, but with the range of a gasoline car. Refueling cNG or LNG is standard in Europe, LH2 works just fine.

Google “burning Tesla” for that ridiculous take on why batteries would be inherently safe.

Main news for me here is that this is (still?) considered newsworthy in Germany.

At top US universities, I’ve been threatened with deportation, yelled at, prevented from going to faculty job interviews, credit to my work removed, papers highjacked and my name removed after I developed the initial idea and the break-thru analysis, etc.

There is no way out: you’re relying on supporting letters of reference from your advisors at least until you’re tenured. Your advisor doesn’t like you? Congrats, he can easily destroy your career before it even started.

A sonic boom is not necessary when moving faster than sound, the Busemann biplane resolves that completely.

There's been considerable work on sonic boom mitigation for many decades. Boom's long nose, flat underside, top engine, small wingspan delta wings are all designs expected to mitigate a sonic boom. Let's see if it works in practice.

From personal experience: in Nature Communications the handling editor and editor in chief absolutely do intervene, in my example to suppress a proper lit review that would have revealed the paper under review as much less innovative than claimed.

That's - not how that works. I suggest you look at any fluid data `riding' that border. "Super compressed" and "ideal gas" are mutually exclusive. "Equilibrium" has even less to do with any of that.

That's got nothing to do with some fluid behaving like an ideal gas or not. Also, except for very low pressures, vapor does not behave like an ideal gas.

“Only base 10” is already the measure of choice where it matters most for most Americans: gas, money, ammunition. It works just fine.

So are there strange quarks?