The article sounds like a journalist has been commissioned to write a positive article about her even though he thinks the opposite.

“Virkkunen is not afraid of situations where people have different opinions than hers. She does not back away just because the situation is uncomfortable.” Virkkunen declined an interview request.

That marks a big shift, both in personality and policies, from her predecessor, France’s fiery, intellectual businessman Thierry Breton. He wrote sci-fi novels, waged a high-profile campaign against major US tech companies,

Elon Musk insulted Thierry Breton when he told him that X had to comply with European laws.

The real meaning of “actually like tech” is more “is ready to bend to the will of tech industry”

The problem is that the same companies are probably supplying Ukraine too. Ukraine is constantly playing a very finicky political game.

Edit: I was wrong, Ukraine do publish the list of the components they are finding in Russian weapons. https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components

It’s not that surprising once you know that their goal is to be completely independent for their US for their military equipment.

It includes the nuclear bomb, missiles, fighter jet, aircraft carrier, submarines, even space capabilities (even if this last part has been lacking a bit lately).

They don’t have the US military budget but they want the same level of technology without any ties to the US.

It means that they are exporting a lot to compensate for the high investments they are pouring into military technology.

Here is the share of global arms export per country.

Germany, Italy and the UK are also big exporters but still behind France.

France’s military industry is having wet dreams thinking about it.

If the US pulls out of NATO France becomes the biggest arms exporter of NATO and I would expect other countries will become less enthusiastic at the idea of buying US weapons systems.

First steep, gather all the ocean’s trash.

Good luck with that !

What are they going to do, invade Ukraine ?

I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I’m using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.

All of that is backed up on Backblaze

No, NASA has the budget. They already spent $50 billion on the development of SLS and Orion, Starship development cost is estimated to be around $10 billion.

So in theory with the money they spent on SLS they could have built 5 starship program.

The problem is that NASA has to follow political interests, sometimes the political interests align with technical interest and we get great things like the Apollo program.

Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.

Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60’s but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)

You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can’t get more than once a year.

Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.

Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !

Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.

Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation

In the meantime Arianespace divided by 3 their number of rocket launches

It reached the altitude of 96km, not space but not far either.

Like this father who got his account closed because he took a picture of his toddler penis to send to their pediatrician.

The picture was automatically backed up in Google photo and flagged as child pornography.

This is a myth, most of the nuclear reactors can be throttled down, it is not instant but they can go as low as 20% in around 30 min.

The thing is it is much easier to stop a wind turbine than to throttle a nuclear reactor, and unlike fossil fuel power turbines most of the cost of the nuclear reactor is fixed cost, whether the reactor is running or not it still costs the same.

Similarly seasoning peppers are a staple of Caribbean cuisine. They look and taste almost identical to habaneros peppers minus the heat.

Factorio !

Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !

What are you talking about, I was very interested in Greek mythology, it’s just that some parts got the attention of my teenager mind more than others.

The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)

Assuming that the person has any other opportunities.