I wouldn't be concerned about this, personally, for the precise reason that it is a fusion device - not fission!
Fusion is incredibly difficult just to start, let alone keep burning - unlike fission, which is only too happy to enter runaway conditions if not very carefully regulated. Fusion is like a little ember in your fireplace you have to carefully blow on to keep alight; fission is like keeping a fireplace lit by pouring gasoline into it.
Quite intentionally, too. One of their parties is looking jealously at the cashflow that a US-style system might provide them. At the cost of everyone else, sure, but what's that to the allure of profit?
I mean, they are being systematically under-funded by one of the UK parties such that it will fail, so they can then point at it saying "I told you so", and so then get to adopt a US-like system, so they too can get in on that sweet, sweet cashflow :/
Depends if you're using it with ORMs or not. It's equally as useful with data in memory. Definitely slower for some things though (yes, it's always slower in one sense... But its also easier to make parallel, so it can even out in the end)
Oh, it is, it just makes them a lot easier to use. The compiler does method restructuring magic behind the scenes to build the necessary state machines. Everything gets a lot easier to understand.
Running a vacuum-optimised engine in atmosphere means the exhaust is overexpanded, which causes severe flow seperation and chaotic flow.
Even small amounts of overexpansion are harmful to the nozzle; overexpansion to vacuum-type ratios is likely to cause an Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
It just got covered in soot from the ablative protection (okay, probably some Al2O3 too, from the subsequently burning grid fin) on the grid fins burning off. GTO/GEO missions come in _really_ hot!
True enough, but it's going an awful lot faster since it's aimed for orbital trajectory to inject the 2nd stage. So, it has tremendous horizontal velocity. Shepard, by comparison, just goes straight up (vertical only), so it's total velocity is far lower.
Falcon is in a totally different class of difficulty and complexity. I mean, the grid fins caught on fire and began to melt. That gives you a good idea of what sort of forces are involved in the descent.
No doubt it was hefty, because of first-mover advantage - SpaceX badly needed an entity willing to take the _perceived_ risk, and SES was not only willing but eager to do it. I bet they got a great discount.
Suboxone and buprenorphine are the same thing.
Yes, I know the manufacturer claims they're different, and the naloxone in Suboxone performs a function, but it really doesn't other than extending the patent lifetime. Buprenorphine itself is a partial agonist, and will cause precipitated withdrawal like they claim the naloxone is for just fine by itself, since it has a very strong affinity and low-medium intrinsic activity, thus ejecting lower affinity opioids like heroin from opioid receptors.
I've met plenty of addicts, and they're perfectly fine people when they haven't been pushed to the brink by restricting their access. People can end up pretty nasty this way, the same way that people can end up career criminals - but they almost certainly didn't start that way.
Your perspective seems very out of touch with the reality of things, and I question whether you've actually really talked to any of them at all, and instead are simply arguing in respect to some caricature of one.
They most certainly can - but the majority of the harms actually result from our treatment of the issue, not the issue itself. I think we simply have to accept that people are going to want to use these substances, and make it as safe as possible for them to do so. If the first step of a plan says something like "1) First, change fundamental human nature", the plan really needs a rethink.
Fusion is incredibly difficult just to start, let alone keep burning - unlike fission, which is only too happy to enter runaway conditions if not very carefully regulated. Fusion is like a little ember in your fireplace you have to carefully blow on to keep alight; fission is like keeping a fireplace lit by pouring gasoline into it.