You aren't familiar with how bureaucracies work, are you?
To you, the military is one big well functioning machine that works better than the government, isn't it?
Yeah, no. That's not the military at all. The military is second only to the DMV for unhelpful layers of insulating bureaucracy between you and the goal.
The following is hypothetical, but entirely consistent with how our government works.
The incident and story broke late Sunday. White House would have asked SecDef that monday morning to look into that. SecDef asks Navy (prob CNO) monday afternoon in a meeting they were already going to have about something else, someone suggests checking the sonar, and CNO "gets right on that" , sending it over to NOPF Atlantic by the end of the day.
Choose Your Own Adventure, Path A CNO actually sent it to the right inbox, and it reaches the night shift guy at the desk at NOPF. But he has no idea how to pull the data because he's never had to do it before, so the email sits until his boss gets in the next morning.
Choose Your Own Adventure, Path B CNO didn't send it to the right inbox, it goes to the NOPF's commander rather than the operations desk, and so it isn't seen until the next morning.
It's now Tuesday, and by now you have people actually pulling up log data and going over it. They're quick about it and find it in that shift, putting together a report that goes back out to SecDef that afternoon... but he doesn't see it till Wednesday morning, and sends it over to the Coast Guard as soon as he gets in.
By the end of Wednesday the report is actually in the hands of the search commander.
That is your government at work dekachin.
It is the Adeptus Administratum with fewer cybernetics.
the US Navy detected the Titan implosion on Sunday but
But it was an isolated, transient event that was recorded but didn't meet the computer's search criteria to flag human investigation, so it wasn't even known they had it until word came down to pull up the data and see what they heard.
So apparently... Titan was based on a composite hull technology from Spencer Composites that Steve Fossett used on DeepFlight Challenger.
But it had a caveat that the carbon fiber was rated for the maximum pressure for only one dive; each successive trip would weaken it further. Richard Branson wanted to buy and use the thing after Fossett died but the rest of the DeepFlight team refused because they knew it wouldn't handle what Branson was proposing.
Depending on what Spencer Composites did or didn't say to OceanGate, they could be liable.
That's the most meme worthy of their mistakes, but walking-in-stations, which was their tech demo for the cancelled World of Darkness mmo, melted 1080's in the wild by trying to run at 700+ FPS, because they hadn't tested it with shaders & HDR turned off.
For that depth there really aren't COTS solutions. There are companies that make ROVs for that depth, but anything manned is going to be a custom built with WHOI and FNRS having the most experience at it.
As a side note, the Alvin is now 100% ship of theseus; nothing on it remains from the original 1964 build.
You didn't get the reference.
If it makes more sense, the subtext of A LOT of Iowa supreme court rulings can be read as "do it again, but properly this time".
If you have any doubts about the court, just remember they also came up with this ruling...
If you are complaining about the Iowa Supreme Court then you won't be satisfied with anything that resembles a court.
I'll admit the Iowa court sometimes reaches seemingly odd conclusions but if you know anything about the composition of the court, you'd quietly take the L and then go back to the drawing board.
"In our view, it is legislating from the bench to take a statute that was moribund when it was enacted and has been enjoined for four years and then to put it into effect."
What the court is basically saying is that just because the court is MORE conservative now than the court that ruled against the ban, doesn't mean the court won't stand by its previous decision.
Because the Iowa court is first and foremost a lawyer's court (composed of lawyers and picked from a short list drafted by lawyers). And one thing the Iowa court will almost never do is say it was wrong.
The state will have to go back and look at what the court actually disagreed with about the ban.
Yeah this is is why the joke ends with hell being managed by the Italians.
Two thousand years to build a bridge to Sicily. One really determined guy with a shovel and a wheelbarrel could have built a gravel causeway across the strait by hand in that time.
It's to connect mainland Italy to Sicily. They've been trying to build it since Pliny the Elder suggested it.
It's not even that wide of a crossing, bit over 2 miles with a maximum depth of 235 feet (Verrazzano-Narrows in NYC is wider). It wouldn't be setting any firsts were it not for their deliberate decision in the 2006 design phase to go for a record setting center span so the towers don't have to be built in the water.
I don't think you're really familiar with the Persona franchise's fanbase.
Imagine you're playing minesweeper and you click the first cell and it comes back "8", and then you click another cell and it also comes back "8".
That is Atlus's experience with the Persona fanbase. There is nothing they can say in any direction that will not piss off someone. Every installment they manage to put themselves on a hill where every possible move is downwards so their only recourse is to build the hill even higher next time around.
We can assume that a hypothetical Persona 9 will be the end of all computer gaming because it will be everything for everybody and any change will alienate half the fucking world.
No, they do not.
The typical residential "smart" meter is the GE I-210, which is a kWh hour only device.
To get vAr measurement you have to step up to the GE kV2c, which is several times more expensive per unit. When you are talking about footprints of millions of customers, a choice between one product or another product which costs several times more, it doesn't matter what capacities the product offers, management will pick the cheaper choice 100% of the time.
I know as I type this, that the significance of it will be lost on most of you, but there is actually a physics argument in favor of California's pricing model.
It's a well known problem in electrical engineering that the simple, residential electric meters have limitations. They do not have the expensive circuitry necessary to perform the phase difference calculations to determine true reactive power consumption. Rather, they use assumptions to do a simpler calculation to determine apparent power.
Now, there's something you have to understand about the electrical grid:
AC power is divided into two complex components: real power and reactive power. An ideal resistor consumes only real power, and an ideal inductor consumes only reactive power.
It is MUCH more expensive to deliver reactive power than it is to deliver real power. Like direct current, reactive power can only be delivered a few miles, meaning in most metros it has to be produced in-situ using capacitor banks at transformer stations. Which are expensive, maintenance intensive, and prone to exploding. A generating plant may cost half a billion dollars to build and millions to operate, but utility scale capacitors have to be deployed and replaced in huge numbers. Never underestimate multiplication.
Since the grid was devised, the largest change in residential energy consumption patterns has been air conditioning. A/C units consume obscene amounts of reactive power to drive their compressors and fans.
Now, this consumption is measured by residential electrical metering units because it shows up in apparent power. The hucksters selling capacitors claiming they'll make your power meter stop are just that; the meters measure apparent power, the capacitor won't make them stop counting. All adding capacitors at your house does is make the power company's life easier and make your house a fire hazard.
BUT, the meters don't have the capacity to BILL customers differently based on their power factor (that is, the balance of resistive vs inductive load).
And since highly inductive loads are more expensive to meet than resistive loads, this is something the power companies sort of want to do.
But they can't, because the metering technology to do it is expensive. It makes sense to use it for massive industrial customers. It's not practical to do it for residential customers.
So the current electrical billing system in California (that is, the old system) was already bad, because the wealthiest people have the highest load factors (something which the meters couldn't accurately bill).
India is a mess in general. It has some upsides and some downsides.
Their culture doesn't pull punches about being fat, being a single parent, etc, so that's a plus. But yeah, you also get incomprehensible outcomes like this, because they're still a classist, monogamous, legal-paternalistic society.
On balance, I wouldn't choose to live there, but I'm sure there are millions of Hindu who wouldn't choose to live here either.
And Punjab... well, they're basically Klingons. What sort of Sikh gets killed by his wife? One who didn't listen to the gurus, that's who.
Novelty theory is an idea conceived and promoted by Terence McKenna, a psychedelic explorer and visionary, who claimed that the universe is not a random and chaotic place, but rather a structured and creative process that generates increasing levels of complexity and novelty over time.
Only a fucking boomer could come up with such tripe.
Well, yes, but not in the way you think.
It's surprising how consistently bad the Diet is at economics. The one sector of their economy that isn't completely moribund, where people can at least imagine a future where they aren't living paycheck to paycheck, and they want to move in and make it as bad as everything else.
The LDP is very good at making all equally miserable.