Does a 2-lane road with a 25mph speed limit really count as a "highway"?

IIRC they're more worried about other systems being jammed. Kinda hard to jam the stars.

This isn't true.
If you're a monster that just wants to run up a body count you can get away with 'a couple of kms' from your target. But if you want to attack hardened (military) targets, using a warhead you can actually carry on an ICBM, you'll need to get <1km levels of accuracy. If you want to shrink warheads (so you can carry more than one per missile) then you need to be even more precise.

> But how a 60’s 70’s missile “see” the stars.

TV cameras were a thing back then. The idea of taking a 'video' signal and converting it to an 'electrical' one was a fairly solved problem.

"Big cat" means members of the genus Panthera. Specifically: Tigers, Lions, Leopards, Jaguars, and Snow Leopards (and I guess for the purposes of this discussion mixes of those).

> So, all air-breathing heat engines (from internal combustion engines in your car to supersonic aircraft engines) require the air to be compressed above atmospheric conditions before you add fuel and combust it.

You can design an engine off the Lenoir cycle (i.e. a pulsejet) that doesn't require compression.

If it makes you feel better they only sent a little bit of his ashes.
A person makes a few pounds of ashes when they're cremated. The probe had about an ounce worth.

> But usually it would only be a little bit hotter in conventional use. 300C seems like a lot though. Idk anything about reactors, but I think they plunge massive insanely hot rods into water?

You generally want steam for turbines to be pretty hot, the ones I'm familiar with usually run about 500°C. There are a few reasons for this, hotter steam is generally easier (and more efficient) to extract energy from, it's also better for the turbines because droplets can cause damage and higher steam temperatures help avoid droplet formation.

Rice flooding is generally done in areas with a lot of water. So "uneven rain fall" is often "too much" water.

"Uneven rainfall" in these areas often means too much water. The protection can be things like using controlled flooding of the fields instead of letting them flood in an uncontrolled way, or by using the fields as a storage area to dump 'excess' water into as protection for other areas.

It comes from the Greek 'philos' meaning "loving"

> a day (one complete rotation) is 175 Earth days lol

A day isn't really a complete rotation.
A complete sidereal rotation (i.e. the time it takes to complete a single 360 degree rotation) on Mercury is about 59 Earth days.
However 'a day' is generally measured with respect to the parent star, and since Mercury is moving around the sun that represents a moving target, and it takes 175 Earth days for the sun complete one cycle in the sky (e.g. local noon -> local noon).

> Rudolph could have had one of RCA's green LEDs - 1958.

You're confusing things here: RCA had a patent for an infrared LED in 1958 (developed by Braunstein Rubin and Egon Loebner, and documented in US Patent 3102201). RCA also had a Green LED in the 70's (US Patent 3819974) but that was a different technology developed by a different group of people.

> It implies bacteria are responsible though?

Not at all. There are tons of non-bacteria bioluminescent organisms.
The example that leaps to mind being fireflies.

GE doesn't make either of those now.

GE made the original GAU-8s, but GE sold that part of the company to Martin Marietta in 1993. Martin Marietta was bought by Lockheed in 1995 to from Lockheed Martin, and then Lockheed Martin sold it General Dynamics 1997.

Similarly GE once made washing machines, but the appliances part of GE was sold to Haier in 2016.

Calling the Eastland "sunk" might be a bit of a stretch. The ship rolled onto its side and then settled into the mud, but a lot (most?) of the ship was still above water.

LA isn't anywhere close to being one of the most densely populated cities in the States. Most of what people think of as "LA" isn't part of the city proper. The actual city is about 4 million people in 500 square miles. That gives you 8k people / square mile. New York (27k/sq mile) and San Francisco (17k/sq mile) blow this out of the water, and then there are a bunch of cities in the 11-13k range like Miami, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The Greater LA Area does have a higher population density (24k/sq mile) but that is still dwarfed by the greater NYC area (56k/sq mile).

Are you thinking of Togo, who is in the Iditarod museum in Wasilla, Alaska?