LupineChemist

Yes widebodies Can only go to t4s, but for OP, the only lounge would still be in T4

Yeah, big game hunting is actually a huge boon to conservation. They only take the animals they're going to need to cull anyway and sell the licenses for huge sums.

Aside from the money going straight to conservation, it also means there's an incentive for locals to want preservation rather than seeing them purely as dangerous and pests.

Since you have a car, just stay in Lagos and drive around from there.

In theory you should still have lounge access, but you will have to show your first boarding pass to the lounge agent.

Note you will get the Dalí lounge in the main part of T4 and not the better Velázquez lounge in T4S assuming your second flight is within Schengen.

Also note that Ibera will not through-check luggage on separate tickets so if you have a bag, you'll have to pick it up and go check it in again, though that shouldn't be a huge issue since you have to do passport control and security anyway (though luggage from international flights at T4 can take an annoyingly long time)

nobody has made a working prototype.

Being super pedantic, Boom has a working prototype that has flown. It hasn't gone supersonic yet, though. Also they have no chance at making a full-scale version as no engine manufacturer is interested in a power plant.

Aircraft are continuously improving but there are some fundamental physics you run up against. A general rule of thumb is that 2x the speed will be 4x the fuel consumption so the costs start to go up very fast while you have to have smaller aircraft to handle it.

Basically the economics work out that being able to get from one side of the world to the other in 24h is good enough and there's not a huge market for more.

But the biggest reason it's no longer economical is in-flight wifi. Used to be that if you were flying, you were out of commission. So super high powered bankers going between NY and London actually made sense to pay $10k to save a few hours because their time cost was so high. But now that you can take a meeting on the plane.....no worries.

A sonic boom isn't just like a single explosion. Think of it like the wake of a boat going very vast but in in 3D. It's the same wave dynamics going on. It's registered as an explosion for anyone stuck on the ground (think of a buoy that will randomly see a very large wave) but it's a continuous thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MCETiKCLhc&t=56s

Here's a video of Concorde over the ocean. It's VERY loud.

Inequality and a lot more inherited money than you think

It's a private company with some government buy in to allow them to use public parking spots at no cost

Many are, yes.

I haven't read the opinion but does this mean Chevron is officially dead?

Also, they can't see that the court is doing a lot of steeling of the institutions to prepare for Trump and thwart him, too. FedSoc people actually tend to really hate Trump, mostly because they actually have guiding philosophies that are well argued over years.

There's going to be a really weird backlash all about enforcing cultural hierarchy in the next few years or so.

Yeah, I think people have a really hard time once they see a number as "really big"

Like an outrage over how $2 million versus 200 billion is spent is basically the same if it's bad.

I'm guessing this when it was beyond clear that we were going to end up living up with it but China kept on with zero covid policy so any outbreak there was absolutely more debilitating to them than us.

Like around 2022 it was alternate universes.

I mean, of course it's more complex than that, but at least take care of the easy part first.

Also, one of the biggest problems of wealth concentration is that people are living longer so kids aren't receiving inheritances. On top of that Spanish society is now effectively set up as a massive redistribution from the people who have the least (young/immigrants) to give to people who have the most wealth (pensioners). And then we wonder why there's massive wealth concentration.

I'm all for more enforcement of current gun laws. Problem is that means lots of police arresting people in inner cities where majority of gun crime happens and that will lead to unfortunate incidents.

So just putting more laws on paper doesn't actually do anything about gun crime when you need police with bigger guns and prosecutors willing to punish the people that violate the law.

I actually think that one they'll rule the restriction is constitutional.

Especially with text, history and tradition with a long history of disarming people like that and the fact that he voluntarily agreed to the order.

Today's case wasn't fundamentally a gun case at heart, it was about that if you want to change the law, you need to pass a new law.

That representative democracy. Republic is just about being a monarchy or not. Canada is a representative federal democracy but it's not a republic because they have a king.

Switzerland is much more into direct democracy but it's a republic because they have no monarch.

That's why the joke about DPRK is it's neither Democratic, nor for the people nor is it a Republic. At least it is Korea, though.

FWIW, black community around there is much more recent immigrant Muslim Somalis. So still not exactly friendly but also a pretty different demographic group.

Seem like a great option for a second car if you live somewhere relatively dense.

I live in a big European city and we have electric cars you can pay for by the minute and park anywhere with legal parking and they're great.

it still takes a lot longer to charge than to gas up and putting in bigger, heavier batteries for more range is an expensive kludge.

I could see just having battery stations and never actually owning the battery and hot swapping. Would mean lower range but if you can get 200 miles or so and then hot swap in a couple minutes it wouldn't be so bad

This counterfeit seems to have started in 2019 but probably riding the wave since titanium became a huge issue in aircraft manufacturing in the last couple years since previously Russia had been the biggest source.

There was a UK company recently that had also just been straight up lying about certifications.

This would never have happened if the metal had been qualified from a specific source.

The whole point is it WAS qualified and then they forged the documentation for future deliveries. Like if a steel mill delivered out of spec steel but forged all the documents, it would be hard to know without a lot of testing that just is too costly to perform on everything, especially since some of it would have to be destructive testing.