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It's like they're not fettered with the laws of physics. It's been amazing to watch their progress. The reusability of Falcons, full flow closed-cycle raptor engines, stainless-steel Starship, bellyflop maneuver, chopsticks catch system and now out of the blue Musk says they will perform...

It won't. We won't become an EU member, probably, ever. Certainly not in the next two decades anyway. This could seriously backfire. Earlier, we had legitimate reasons to keep Sweden out of NATO. But the EU thing has nothing to do with NATO accession and it displays the misuse of veto power. I...

Another milestone. A Falcon 9 booster was reused 16 times.

Another milestone. A Falcon 9 booster was reused 16 times.

The economy has to slow down. The citizens know that their money won't worth the same tomorrow and they rush to the shops to spend whatever they have in their pockets. This demand cause the shopkeepers to raise the prices to their liking. If minimum wage increases by 30%, they increase the...

SMR of Rolls-Royce is rated at 470 MWe. That's too big for what I have in mind. Even A4W that's powering USS Abraham Lincoln is too big. It should, ideally, be on the order of 100MWe or smaller. We should be able to churn it out in a normal size factory and ship it in big numbers. Passive...

In my thinking, - Short term: diversify the energy sources and go cleaner and cleaner. Local part and platform manufacturing is essential to grow healthily and sustainably. - Long term: design and build mini(or micro) nuclear reactors. Once you have a product, try to establish the economies of...

Would they attempt flying her supersonic this year?

Don't you think the definition of "core energy" is a bit arbitrary? If we followed up the chain, we'd say the solar energy is the core. Or if we go one more step up, it would be nuclear fusion. Green Hydrogen makes up only 0.04% of the total hydrogen production. It's still made from oil...

We have more than $160B external debt to pay in the short term(in less than a year). Unless we start attracting dollars from abroad very soon, we might very well start seeing the catastrophe of balance of payments crisis. I'm increasingly of the opinion that we will have to resort to IMF in the...

Will CMCs be the last major leap in turbine engine technology before electric airliners take over in 20+ years(assuming battery densities come to the figures that will make electric passenger planes possible and feasible)?

Lira is in free fall. It lost 7% of its value just today. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/07/economy/turkish-lira-crash-new-government/index.html

You have, previously, written many times about turbine engines, saying that the real problem of enlarging engines or raising the turbine inlet temperature is the apparent issue of turbine blade creep. Since the materials used are essentially metals, even if they're cast in single crystals, they...

The SWOT analysis from the "Gas Turbine Engine Roadmap Final Report": Strengths: • Having the will and awareness to develop strategic technologies with domestic means, • Existence of gas turbine engine part manufacturing infrastructure in our country, • Gas turbine engine...

I recommend the post-graduate thesis of Hakan Fidan, "Intelligence and Foreign Policy" to the members who want to have a better grasp of the role of intelligence in foreign-policy decision making. This is the abstract of the thesis(in English and written in 1999): "One of the main arguments of...

We can keep PKK at bay and crush them like we're doing now. On the other hand, 20mil+ aliens(if no precaution is taken) will extinguish the very fabric of the society that makes up Turkish identity. You cannot expel them with soft power once they're over ten percent of your population. And God...

The water scarcity and the water wars alone will make tens of millions of refugees heading for our country. We cannot weather this hurricane unless we mine the entire southern border + Iranian and Armenian borders. Or we are going to lose our independence in the next two decades. This should be...