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  • A large part of food cost is processing.

    A regular burger patty is processed by butchering a cow, running meat through a grinder, and then pressing the grind into patties.

    A vegan burger patty has to combine multiple ingredients and seasonings with different preprocessing steps, and then it still has to be pressed into patties.

    Out of this, cow butchering is by far the most intensive and costly processing step, but the cost of that is amortized over many cuts of meat, not just the hamburger.

    The vegan patty has more things to process in it. And if you're looking at Beyond or Impossible, then some of those things are fancy lab grown proteins.

  • Most of the regular crew gets a sleeping bag in a cupboard with some small locker space for personal effects.

    Wilmore has just the bag, off in the Japanese module. And I guess he has to store personal effects in the Starliner. Though presumably he only packed for 8 days.

    In climate controlled zero gravity, there's no point to having more bedding than a light sleeping bag just to keep you from floating off somewhere. My guess is the big selling point on the cupboards is some noise damping, and maybe some protection from lighting. Spacecraft have noisy machines running all the time to keep you alive

  • This is actually pretty important to being able to solve engineering problems in the real world. Invariably, every little sub industry has its own cursed unit system. And dimensional analysis is great for solving real problems on its own.

    And if you get to a high enough physics level, they start setting hbar = c = 1 or G = c = 1, and you never have to worry about it again.

    I'm the mean time, it's worthwhile to learn the trick to do this stuff fast-ish.

  • Especially crazy when Douglas Adams has a writing credit on the screenplay, and all indications are that he was substantially involved in it's contents.

    Edit:

    The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote... All the substantive new ideas in the movie... are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him... Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie.

     
            - Robbie Stamp, Executive Producer
      
  • Those SSTs constantly blow out every window in the city. Seriously, there's a reason this picture never came to fruition. And it's because the FAA did a 6-month study of sonic booms in Oklahoma City, and that study was cut off after only a few weeks after citizens angrily called their representatives.

  • For the money they are (were I guess) handed to set that it’s clearly worth it.

    Not disagreeing with you. I just want to point out that Google is probably deliberately "overpaying" on this Mozilla deal, because they want to keep Firefox afloat, because they don't want to catch a court ruling that they are monopolizing the browser market too.

    Dirty tricks with web browsers is the antitrust charge that actually caught Microsoft in the 90s.