It’s not. In theory they should be able to quickly deploy a replacement - towers can be easily and quickly destroyed but not quickly replaced. Aerostats can be replaced as quickly as they can inflate replacements & deploy (if needed) new ground equipment.

They can also be deployed from a ship, not as easily done is putting a tower on a ship.

There are a ton of good reasons to use an aerostat instead of a tower.

That’s part of the problem. You’ve come to accept so many small compromises on your rights that you have the situation that you have now.

They did. After world war 2 ended, VW continued and GM reabsorbed Opel with no penalties.

well we do it here in America, so you know it’s the right thing to do

…how’s that going for you these days?

They made adaptors from what you’ve got to rj11.

https://youtu.be/bTQQ5idTDjo

Yeah, I mean people still drive VW and GM cars despite the respective manufacturers both benefiting from Nazi Germany during world war 2.

That is better than I expected. I served as a first responder for a decade and ours were good for 2 years - but ours got used often enough on critical cases that they had to be sent out for data readouts, and we almost always got newer batteries back than what we sent. During my tenure I don’t think we actually did an actual battery replacement as a result.

ITT: people not getting the joke

How often is a battery replacement required?

My understanding is that the only real issue with 0g ingestion/digestion is that gas doesn’t separate from the stomach liquids clearly due to the lack of gravity. What are you referring to?

Admittedly my recollection was vague. Here’s the first link I found that is telling the story.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/strange-story-of-woman-who-successfully-sued-matrix-directors-plagiarism/ Seems like there was reporting about a decade ago that the claimant was successful in her plagiarism lawsuit when she really wasn’t.
https://thingsthatkeepmeupatnight.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-the-matrix-and-the This goes more in depth to her claim and serves to underscore just how tenuous the claims of plagiarism/similarity are.

Abruptly pushing the stick forward

It wasn’t in cruise. It was in a -1G manoeuvre as part of stall recovery, and recovered the systems within 4s. Definitely not a normal flight.

The one they stole? Edit: I was recalling incorrect reporting from a decade past. More detail in the following thread.

Discovery decided that established Canon was trash and threw that rule out the window airlock.

Missed opportunity. Gynormous envy.

Never getting therapy after her kid died didn’t help her any.

So well done. Thank you for changing this image in my head for me.

I don’t get it.

The one thing about Star Trek that I’ve always had to sort of ignore in order to enjoy it is that they’re supposed to be living in a post-scarcity society where nobody uses money, but they still have people that do the absolute shit miserable jobs that nobody wants to do today.

Voyager touched on this when they had sentient holograms in perpetual servitude cleaning, Picard touched on it in the creation of “Freecloud” and DS9 touched on it with all the ferengi stuff…

But it’s never explained why people like Joseph Sisco are running restaurants for free, why Picard ‘owns’ Chateau Picard, etc…

Nor is it explained why when Nog goes to Sisco’s restaurant he is using his transporter credits…free?

There’s a lot in-universe that is unexplained and comes down to naive idealism, but that doesn’t mean that we as a society can’t strive towards it.

Someone smarter than I once said “practice doesn’t make perfect, but practice does make better.”