Oh? Have you seen any horse locusts lately?

>the sinking of the Lusitania was completely fabricated

No, it was a real ship that was genuinely sunk by an actual German U-boat.

A 200km/h drone is so far from a passenger carrying hypersonic plane that the hypersonic plane is absolutely still theory.

This is a complete pipedream and will likely never work.

The F-22 officially has a ceiling of 60k, and was apparently at 58k when it shot the balloon (which was at 63k, with the missile covering the 5kft difference).

(As stated by others, this is a U-2, but the 22 could actually get pretty close, and based on the flight envelope diagrams I've seen, even 60k is pretty conservative for the 22, and probably an artificial limit for pilot oxygen/pressurization reasons or something)

There are absolutely other options with comparable or even better designs and build quality, and the M processors are only unmatched at low power points because that's literally what they're designed for (low power efficiency without major concern for die area).

Weird to use Firefox as an example here when it's literally the last browser that does have a compelling use case since it's the last non-chromium option on windows.

(And the add on support is excellent)

Everywhere had superstitious and totally useless (and often actively harmful) doctors until very recently, with the advent of scientific medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is just as useless as the four humours or the miasma theory of disease.

China is just holding on to theirs a bit longer.

>Plus the vaccine needs ultra cold storage which wasn't the case for AstraZeneca or local made vaccines (at least in the Indian case )

Moderna can be stored at <5F (<-15C), which is totally attainable with an ordinary freezer.

>Really depends on your climate.

Nah, all that determines is whether you need a fallback gas system or not. Even in cold climates, heat pumps can take up a significant chunk of the load on warmer winter days and in the shoulder season.

> The curve changes drastically.

Yes, which is why modern systems can choose whether to run the heat pump or the backup heat based on whichever would be more efficient based on current conditions.

>You can barely get parts for heat pumps just a few years old.

That's not a technological issue. In terms of parts and complexity, heat pumps are literally just air conditioners with a reversing valve, so they're not inherently any more expensive or difficult to fix than an A/C

>I live in New England and it’s just not the way to go. Plus good luck finding an A/C tech out here. Most guys just know oil/propane.

That just means that techs need to keep up with the times.

Similarly, if an area has a bunch of coal plant techs and no wind turbine techs, that's not an argument that the next power plant they build should be coal, it's an argument that they should start to train up some wind turbine techs.

Heat pumps are the best primary heating device for a modern home.

Is there a reason you don't like energy efficiency?

Not in my suburb. Our city-run fiber is all buried.

(FTTH is fantastic too - I'll be super disappointed if I ever have to move away from my symmetric gig)