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It'll be the same for the final passenger version. No Concorde style droopy nose adding to complexity and weight. Camera view for landing.

Well I certainly enjoyed it, Dave. But yes, it's a VERY long film. Could have been an hour shorter. 😀 I admit, there were times when I was getting a little bored. Well worth watching though. 👍

You mean like yours does when you make comments about climate change? 😲 Technically correct! But you didn't read my sentence properly. I said what we experimentally know to be true. What experimentation tells us is true. I didn't say anything about "scientific fact" And what experimentation tells us is true may not be true when more knowledge is gained and better experiments designed. It is true, of course, that long standing theories that have stood the test of time and being experimentally verified, replicated, countless times, are very rarely abandoned completely, rather, they are tweaked and refined. Again, science doesn't label a theory junk science or pseudo science just because it isn't in line with current thinking, as you claimed. Dark Matter might be the currently accepted explanation for what we see, but we didn't tell Mordehai Milgrom he was an word not allowed and responsible for junk science because he came up with his MOND hypothesis. Same for Penrose and CCC, nobody tells him he is responsible for pseudoscience. Now, when a theory that has been experimentally verified, replicated, countless times, is contradicted by badly conducted, flawed, research that ignores previous experimental verification we might call it junk science. And the chances of that badly conducted, flawed research being the way nature really works has a very low probability of being true. By the church. And the scientific method might be 1000 years old... but the scientific method we know dates back to the 1930's. So Copernicus and his experiences aren't relevant to this discussion As you say "moderate amounts" and trans fats are still regarded as decidedly unhealthy. Like I said, the theory has been tweaked. And of course, medical science is far more contradictory over time than the other sciences. Indeed, but I've never heard of a reputable scientist label another reputable scientist as responsible for junk science or pseudoscience for disagreeing with their cherished theories, when the challenger has ben responsible for quality work . Although if you Google it I'm sure you will find something. Now we've both stopped pretending we know what we are talking about I'm off to watch Dune 2. 👍

Not unless it contradicts what we know experimentally to be true and has significant evidence against it. It has to be more than just a new and not conforming idea to be labeled pseudoscience. For example, MOND is an alternative to the prevailing dark matter theory but its not labeled pseudoscience.

Yep, me too. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/04/exodus-propulsion-technologies-claims-huge-space-propulsion-breakthrough.html

"A veteran of such storied programs as NASA’s Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS), The Hubble Telescope, and the current NASA Dust Program, Buhler and his colleagues believe their discovery of a fundamental new force represents a historic breakthrough that will impact space travel for the next millennium"

Or nonsense? You decide. https://thedebrief.org/nasa-veterans-propellantless-propulsion-drive-that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat-earths-gravity/ "Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, has revealed that his company’s propellantless propulsion drive, which appears to defy the known laws of physics, has produced enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity."

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/planet-9-nine-solar-system-b2530985.html "Scientists say they have found new evidence that there is a hidden planet in our solar system. For years, some astronomers have been suggesting that unusual behaviour on the edge of our solar system is best explained by another, undiscovered planet. That helps explain the orbits of objects that lie at the very far reaches of our solar system, more than 250 times away from the Sun than we are. Now Konstantin Bogytin, an astronomer who helped popularise the theory, says that he and his team have found yet more evidence that suggests that planet exists. The new work represents “the strongest statistical evidence yet that Planet 9 is really out there”, he said."

They are more reliable these days. My daughters is a Fiat 500 Hybrid. Enough performance and VERY economical.

Abarth! My daughter has a Fiat 500. I had no idea she was a pilot.

👍 Is hot chocolate okay too?

Oh, well I'll only be 123. A spring chicken.

57 years till the next solar eclipse in Guernsey. 😞 There is a partial solar eclipse in 2025 though. Next total lunar eclipse in 2025, 7th September.

I challenge you to like the look of this thing... 🤔