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Which works fine as long as you don't mind keeping your worst employees, while all your best ones quit, which is generally the opposite of how it works during layoffs

Crash Nebula and The Crimson Chin from Fairly Oddparents are both great

Can spacetime be ripped or torn?

That would probably be analogous to false vacuum decay; don't try to make it happen

Well, hockey season is starting up again soon, so there's that

It can store enough energy to output 85MW for 100 hours, which is 8.5GWh. That's also probably very optimistic math, unless it actually stores more than 8.5GWh, and that's the reduced value accounting for losses

an unusual finale for space flight

I mean at the time, it was the typical finale for a manned space flight

A second person would help a lot, but not be entirely necessary. They are designed to be swappable

The fridge door one is perfectly realistic, those are designed to be swappable.

The best book is either Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.

Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it'll probably be more blog post than book, though

Edit: You might also like Ra by Sam Hughes; it's magic as a field of science/engineering, and spells have programming-like syntax. Spoiler: 'magic' is not actually magic

I bet they fizzle. By weight, tritium is one of the most expensive substances on the planet; do you think the people in charge of refilling the nukes have actually been doing so, or just stealing the money?

MPPP is not heroin; do words just not mean anything anymore?