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Holy, Sunday, that fits.

AC has alos been an option for some years now. One contemporary example, https://www.wabteccorp.com/locomotive/heavy-haul-locomotives/es58aci-locomotive See also: https://www.republiclocomotive.com/ac-traction-vs-dc-traction/ also see...

Flight speed of launches had a great sense of "This is a real thing with real mass and real inertia and real momentum".

Dad's sister Susan had a Gremlin which turned out to have a posi trac rear end. How that car came to have that hardware was a bit of a mystery. At this point on the calendar I don't remember if she bought it new or used.

😆 I love that typo.

Those are different from the ones we had; ours had a cylindrical handle, am pretty sure their brand name was Jarts.

Working for me just now,

That landed view would look grand with a few scale figures posed alongside.

Only model kit which I am aware of is a 9 inch long resin one of 1/288 scale, totally not suitable for flying model use, https://www.starshipmodeler.com/other/au_prefly.htm There is/has been at least 1 paper/card model offered...

As the space economy grows there is probably, even guaranteed, to be a lot more of this as people seek to gain income within that space economy by whatever means they can dream up. Guess as time passes we'll just have to observe and see which ones get bought in to by whom and which ones do not.

You know how it is, "The cash must flow".

The visual of this wreck brings to mind a sentence in a book I'm currently re-reading, Page 103, Sydney, by Geoffrey Moorhouse, 1999.

There's the first and greatest clue or at least indication. FB had a supposed glitch and kicked me off in 2015 in something they called "Malware Checkpoint" and this brings to mind something which happened in years before that. Some way, somehow, I seemed to have an intuitive ability to smell a...

This from today may be of interest given their street address is, "9 Boryspilska str., building 64, 02099 Kyiv, Ukraine". And yes, there is a bit of discussion about the specific topic of this thread. Is a 1 hour interview covering a number of aspects of the plastic model business.

Perhaps of interest? Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field News By Tereza Pultarova published 15 March 2024 https://www.space.com/satellites-re-entering-magnetosphere-effects-study

And for happier news involving a ship, BB-62 USS New Jersey entered drydock yesterday. Internet age made it possible to have live stream from museum curator Ryan, museum social media manager Libby, and well known British naval historian Drachinifel all standing atop turret 3, the aft turret...

Perhaps of interest? https://www.space.com/satellites-baltimore-bridge-francis-scott-key

You and I both know That only happens with the aid of time travel technology ...

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Tugs are limited to very low speeds while doing their tugging thing, slower than the channel speed - so, a big effect would be the perhaps significant reduction of how many ships can cycle through the passage in 24 hours. Here watch this, especially just after the 1:31 point,