While the space shuttles are a great technological advance, they are limited as to how much payload they can take into orbit. The shuttles are not the heavy lift vehicles like the Saturn V or the Delta rockets. The shuttle cannot go to high altitude orbits or escape the Earth's gravitation...
Because much of New Orleans lies below sea level, the city is at risk from flooding. Emergency management officials must begin evacuations (疏散) well before a storm strikes. But evacuation costs money: Businesses close, tourists leave, and citizens take precautionary measures. The mayor of New...
they do have certain drawbacks as well. The main disadvantage is a lack of control over operations, storage, and delivery. When you outsource to a fulfillment center, you no longer control how much stock to store, how to manage the operations team...
Much ink has been spilled attempting to determine which characters make up the most powerful superheroes in fiction, but this list seeks to answer a slightly different question. Which heroes are physically the strongest? Forced to compete in a powerlifting competition, who would come out on top?
Not only does it look great, but it is also great. The Shield of Guilty is a small shield that requires you to have 8 strength to use it, as it upgrades with normal smithing stones you can have B scaling at +25. The shield can inflict blood loss if you hit enemies with it, and...
The biggest downside with this business model is that there’s a muchslower ramp up to significant profit. In addition, price erosion can be a problem because there will be many other vendors selling the exact same products. Managing customer supportis also a huge challenge with dropshipping. ...
It doesn’t work on a rocket to draw oxygen from the air because, among other reasons, the rocket quickly gets too high up for there to be much oxygen around. So it has to bring the oxygen with it. Oxygen becomes a liquid at -297.3 F (-183 C), and once it does, it’s around...
], outlandish examples in The Foundation. This guy is a 55 year old chemical engineer and he’s been a chemical engineer most of his life. He’s tried and started and failed companies most of his life. He said he’s even spent as much as 100,000 or 200,000 on different failed ...
We’ve got some real friends and loyal customers out of that, and it was a pretty good move. I do understand that when I moved on to another role, one of my successors decided this was all too much trouble and decided to give the corporate jet for use to a...