Indeed. If one were able to travel at a constant acceleration of 1 gravity (convenient for those on board), accelerating to the midpoint, turning over and decelerating from there, then the journey wo… (View Post)

As someone who would dearly love to have intelligent aliens spotted/confirmed (hell, any life off of Earth would be great to have reliably observed), the "evidence" presented tends to go al… (View Post)

I don't get the dislike of wind turbines. Personally, I like them. Coming down the A420, rounding the corner and seeing the Watchfield Wind Farm come into view made me think, "nearly home."… (View Post)

For clarity, I'm not a "nationalisation=good, privatisation=bad" person by default. Nor vice versa (although, to be fair, I tend to lean more towards the privatisation aspect due to the pos… (View Post)

Mixed. There was a decade of significant improvement, but then they stalled and the last twenty years-plus has been not very good. Leaks: Almost all the benefit was seen prior to the turn of the cent… (View Post)