The whole Starship's body is lift-producing, that's how they maintained altitude for the first half of the re-entry deceleration.

Because the ISP already interconnects for free with the OTT networks. And they need that interconnection. Thus if they ask for money the OTT may simply reply "then we don't interconnect here, pay someone else to bring your connectivity to us".

The telcos are ALREADY paid by their subscribers to bring traffic to OTT networks. OTT networks are already paying their network. Telcos want to be paid twice.

At -5000 m the free gas pressure i 1.5 bars, thus, technically you may well have 150% of hydrogen with respect to pure hydrogen at sea level :)

Tritium is almost chemically indistinguishable from hydrogen. A biological process that would be able to separate and accumulate tritium is very, very improbable.

Proponents of Thorium MSRs also explain why the thorium road has ever been taken and the explanations are at least reasonable. You should at least acknowledge their existence and if you want to start a discussion you should start by refuting those with some argument.

And that is part of what they customers are paying fully for. The last mile and backhauling infrastructure. The transport to a cache or the closest NAP is relatively cheap.

Also, it is more a matter of *control* than money. They want to have a contractual relationship that they are not having now.

Yeah, I am the network administrator of a small ISP and I agree. The network cost is paid the users up to the closest IX, then those companies pay to bring their network to the IX.

The network costs are already paid.

Moreover some operator like Netflix do lend cache boxes to the ISPs that originate enough traffxc, to be put *within* their network.

Asking operators to pay again is racketeering, under the threat of blocking, throttling or impeding traffic to go through.

I'll stick with my real glider. It has very good realism, including occasional death.

Black holes usually WERE a star, thus to have another star nearby it would have been a binary system. Not something I would describe as "its own star", anyway.

You would never be able to prove, at the voting booth, that the black box you have in front of you actually runs the software and only the software, plus the hardware it CLAIMS to be running.

With paper voting YOU could VERIFY the process up to the ballot box (which does the anonymization) and then EVERYONE can verify the process.

Pumped hydro storage is a good and efficient energy storage technology. Unfortunately it is available only in specific mountain terrain, and nearly all basins have been used.

It is not an ideological position. Yours, on the other hand....

Do the same for all energy sources, remove subsidies, priority of dispatchment, and let's see which one would be preferable.

A human body has 5400 Bq of radioactivity. This is to put number in perspective.

Actually replacing a radio is as easy as replacing the hardware and signing a couple of papers. I did it for my aircraft because I had to replace the radio due to the change from 25 kHz to 8.33 kHz spacing.

The new component has to be certified on the type and that is hard but it has to be done only once per type but and it's a certification of just the equipment, not the whole aircraft.