I have worked for two different French multinationals, and worked with several others. In every case, the French people who wanted to get ahead moved to the US, and ultimately became US citizens. The people who remained in France were comfortable with the "protections", and ultimately with their station in life. They were certainly never promoted above a certain level. That is the thing the class warriors here in the USA do not understand. Here you have multiple avenues to try to get ahead in this country. If you don't get accepted to one college, you try another. If you don't get the job you want, you go on a search and find one that you think fits. It takes effort, but it can be done. In Europe, it is much more difficult and most don't really try.

Graduates from CS schools have a degree calling them "Software Engineers" but they are not. Most of them have a glorified IT degree and no real algorithm work. All but two of my best software engineers have had EE degrees. The two exceptions, one was a CS dropout who was bored, and the other had a CS degree from Carnegie Mellon and an MS in Engineering from RPI.

Their first rocket looked like a giant penis. Now they want a mobile space platform shaped like a ring? These jokes just write themselves.

Time signals you!

Anybody else wonder if these are really satellite killers to take out Starlink?

They may be up, but they aren't connected to the app yet.

it's odd that some sources report 300 to 1000 years for CO2 remaining in the atmosphere to others reporting 5 years, primarily due to the vast amount recycled by the oceans.. 5 years means the methane lasts longer. CO2 is plant food.

Of course, a massive underwater volcano eruption that increases atmospheric water vapor, the most effective green house gas, by over 13% couldn't possibly be behind this year's odd weather...
https://earthenvironmentcommun...

Nobody.

If "the "Anthropocene" concept is a tool to raise urgent awareness (already too late) of the perils of climate change" is a "conceit showing mankind's self delusions of grandeur", why isn't anthropomorphic climate change the same thing? There are no examples of weather events that are at all out of line with know historical weather or climate data. For the same reasons we aren't in a new era, we aren't in a new climate.

Oh no, America (or some other non European country) has invented some new technology for pennies in a garage! We must throw billions at this problem and come up with our substandard competitor!

I expect this change will only impact the occasional tourist.

It isn't ESA, but given the EU's propensity to throw even more money at problem, is probably within an order of magnitude or two. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fgeekculture...

Exactly. Solyndra 2.0

I bet this is just as effective as making all the phones have USB-C connections.