I’ve played this game before. It’s because we haven’t colonized enough planets to start specialising districts.

Fun fact: “jet propulsion”, aka turbojet and turbofan engines, was never a topic of study at any point in JPL’s history. The name was chosen to disguise the fact that money was being spent on more experimental rocket R&D.

The capsules can do a water splashdown with parachutes alone.

The capsules that land on land all seem to have some additional system to slow down in addition to the parachute. Boeing Starliner has airbags that deploy around and below the heat shield. Soyuz has a braking rocket system that fires immediately before impact.

Whoops! That’s my mistake.

“Nightfall”, by Arthur C. Clarke is a short story based on this premise.

Except in the story it’s a complex multiple-star solar system that makes it very rare for all suns to set at once.

Edit: It’s actually Isaac Asimov.

Nazi Germany famously tried to develop synthetic replacements for petroleum. In their context, they had a massive war going on, and they did not have great access to regular oil deposits or sources.

They weren’t successful at replacing non-synthetic petroleum products on a large scale. By the end of the war, their air force couldn’t fly anywhere for lack of fuel, and their army had almost entirely reverted to horse-based transport instead of trucks.

Saturn V first stage ran RP-1, a kerosene fuel like Jet-A or JP8.

Not even. ed is The Standard Editor.

If that’s a Tomcat, where’s that lizard’s RIO?

Windows does, in fact, have signals. They’re just not all the same as Unix signals, and the behavior is different. Here’s a write-up.

You’re correct there is no “please terminate but you don’t have to” signal in Windows. Windowless processes sometimes make up their own nonstandard events to implement the functionality. As you mentioned, windowed processes have WM_CLOSE.

Memory access violations (akin to SIGSEGV), and other system exceptions can be handled through Structured Exception Handling.

It was also common to have a single step mode, where the CPU advances one cycle per switch press. Very useful for debugging.

And you could frequently read out the contents of registers directly on rows of lights. This led to the trope of the blinky light computer in Star Trek (original series) and elsewhere. Because the lights would flash in various patterns when the computer was running, as the register contents changed. But in the single step mode you could interpret the values.

But, but, the other terminal on those batteries is floating?

I’m pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.

On airplanes that don’t do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.

(This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)

Some more practical tips.

• if the autopilot is engaged, you can’t physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
• That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It’s got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
• if the plane tells you there’s a “stall, stall” you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
• the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it’s set up.
• most important: the switch for the “fasten seatbelt” sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the “no smoking” sign).

For reference, pu’erh is regular Camellia sinensis tea where the leaves are packed into cakes and subjected to a fermentation and aging process.

And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty “dark” for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.

For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.

You missed “CM,” which was common in copyright statements in the 20th century.

The ballistic coefficient, mass divided by cross section area, still determines how drag effects trajectory in the LEO environment.

It should be pretty straightforward to extrapolate if you know the relevant parameters on both spacecraft.

A prestigious college downloads the paper. What are the possible reasons?

Same reasons anyone else would want to read the paper? Abstract looks germane to someone’s research topic there?

One of the progress sliders on the sickbay monitor really did say “health insurance remaining.”