The SPR holds mainly crude oil, so you can’t just open a gas station and start selling it. It has to be sent to a refinery first, and once that happens the product that comes out is fungible.

In short it would be logistically simpler to just buy gasoline on the market and subsidize it. The subsidy is only 20-30 cents / gal as well.

How is this meaningful? This graph doesn’t account for inflation

The purple line is adjusted to constant 2011 prices, and the green lines are all adjusted to 2021 prices. So the green and purple lines don’t directly compare to each other, but you can still get some idea of scale.

It’s gotta be an “operating” or “actual physical control” charge because they didn’t see him driving.

Akshully, they would be counting to 11,111. That’s nearly 100,000!

We used to record this show and DS9 on VHS tapes for the express purpose of fast forwarding through the commercials.

Just like how Java is “not intended for use in a nuclear facility.” They put it in the long-ass click through agreement, so it’s legally binding.

The direction they’re going in is that overt racism is now fine, in addition to covert racism. As long as there’s also some other non-racial parallel reasoning.

And, like, how the heck is it Joe Biden’s job to corruptly influence FIFA officials?

The pattern buffer under the floor of the teleporter room that makes it all work. (Also useful storage for transporter chiefs).

The $5 million is earning interest at the “judicial interest rate”. Which is 4% (and tied to t-bonds) instead of 100%. That’s how the $5 million became $5.8 million during the appeal.

Trump was also probably required to post an appeal bond in cash or other security to cover the entire amount of the judgement plus expected interest. So when Caroll does finally get her money, the check is probably going to come from an escrow service or similar, not from Trump directly.

This includes several few vaccines that are not normally issued to the general public. Like anthrax, rabies, and the bicillin “peanut butter” shot that is known to be really uncomfortable and delivered straight to the butt.

Jesus operated a carpentry business. I’m sure he knows all about dealing with difficult customers.

By the way, the court ruled that the judgement can’t be discharged in bankruptcy. So Jones is coming out of bankruptcy, and he still owes the full amount (less whatever is collected from the Onion) personally. He doesn’t get a clean slate. Any future income of his can be garnished and assets seized down to some minimum. For the rest of his life.

Alex Jones doesn’t own any IP any more. His bankruptcy estate owns the shares in the business that used to be his. So Alex Jones can’t sue for any infringement. In fact Alex Jones continued to illegally use the studio and the branding for months after he lost the rights to do so.

In theory Jones’s bankruptcy estate’s liquidator / administrator could sue on behalf of the estate. But that guy was trying to award the auction to the Onion in the first place.

The Onion tried to strike a short term lease deal, which hasn’t been approved yet. So they’re just going to make the lease payments to the plaintiffs directly for the time being.

And they think they’re in a pretty legally defensible situation, because, hey, who’s going to sue them?

It’s not a retreat; it’s a strategic retrograde advance!

The charges can be refiled when Trump is not a sitting President up to the statute of limitations.

The statute of limitations is probably five years for most of the classified documents charges; maybe some are ten years.

Given offenses occurred from 2021-2022 (when the search warrant was executed), it seems like the statute will expire on the smaller stuff before Trump leaves office.

If you read the chart on that Wikipedia article carefully, the estimated temperature profile is based on data from two Apollo missions.

All of the Apollo missions spent all of their surface time during the lunar morning, relatively early into the 14-day lunar day. They did this partially because the cooling systems couldn’t cope with the full heat of the day, and partially to ensure good backlighting during the landings.

So there is going to be some “diurnal” surface heating and cooling that is probably modeled but not measured.

Mathematics is a search for absolute truth, as proven from axioms.

Meanwhile, this is said about statistics: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Your car radiator is actually using convection to convect heat into the air.

The spacecraft radiators use radiation to dump heat by emitting infrared photons. Photons do not require a medium. This type of radiator works by maximizing the area of hot surface exposed to empty space (which has an effective temperature of 3 K). They have to be pointed into a dark area and away from the sun. There’s no advantage to fins, because you want to maximize area perpendicular to the dark sky.

Both devices are called radiators, but they are different kinds of devices.

Solar sail effect is going to be dwarfed by regular atmospheric drag in low earth orbit. At perfect right angles the radiation pressure on the panels is 4.5 micro-Pascals. Meanwhile, in low orbit there’s enough residual atmosphere to generate a dynamic pressure (for drag) of 5 milli-Pascals, give or take (and strongly depending on the space weather).

So atmospheric drag is around 1000 times more than photon pressure. And the drag is big enough to be noticeable over weeks and months, requiring regular boosts to stay in orbit.