10th amendment specifies exactly what you’re saying, that nothing explicitly written is up to the people or states.

That is what the original intention of the states was, was to allow a diversity of systems under one overarching banner.

Cannonball run is 2906 miles. Assuming most of it is across highways at 65 mph, (a lot of the west is faster but the east is slower), you’d get it in about 44 hours. With a 10-minute delay every 300 miles you’d add about 2 hours for a total of 46.3 hours.

You want to stop every 16 hours of driving (since you don’t care about DOTs 10-hour limit) so it takes you slightly less than 3 days. Or less than half the stated “week”.

This “pie in the sky” train system is currently using like none of the federal budget. Find something else to cut money from.

Al Capone was got because of tax fraud.

So yeah, it works.

It’s always been illegal.

There is still a sign at the Portofino hotel in LA with the current record and it is definitely up to date.

You know what also wasn’t a word?

Literally every word that is now a word.

Modern reactor design also pretty much makes runaway reactions nearly impossible, as in, you have to actually try to fuck it up.

Even Fukushima didn’t have a runaway reaction, it just lost coolant.

It did mention that several times the town did form posses to go and cull the bears, but didn’t do enough because you also had people just feeding the shit out of them.

Correct, it was an F-35B flown by a USMC pilot out of MCAS beaufort.

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I will say that this is both a benefit and a detriment to lemmy in my experience. You have to pay attention to multiple levels of information.

NASA has no control of flight paths. The FAA also doesn’t specify sonic-boom allowed flight paths. They just outright ban it (with a few exceptions) for any boom that could reach anywhere in the US.

FAA also doesn’t want to deal with people complaining about sonic booms like they did back in the 50s when this all started (they received tens of thousands of complaints) so they have an interest in making sure NASA lives up to their promises.

Yes, they would reduce the overpressure. By how much I’m not sure, but that’s part of the research.

They’re promising a perceived 75 dB level, equivalent to the volume of a dishwasher. Sonic booms are normally about 110 dB or about a jackhammer or a rock concert

And it’s not like you’d hear it all the time, just once in a while and only if you’re in the flight path.

I’m spooked by the fact that you have no idea how the US enriches uranium, or the difference between a power pressurized water reactor and a fast “breeder” reactor (if you were thinking of plutonium) or a centrifuge.

The US enriches uranium using a gas-centrifuge. The US also no longer recycles spent nuclear fuel, but France does.

My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.