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Not entirely unrelated. Solar panels have to be manufactured somewhere, and I'm pretty sure China currently the top producer.

I love that the elixer didn't just give them beards, but also top hats, lit pipes, and suits! I forgot how powerful magic could be in this world.

"Oh yes she did. Only too well. Unfortunately. She kept her illness from me. 'Til all I could do was mourn her."

Is his Dad known for "Dad jokes"?

Bon voyage, Milo.

Dr. Kim, whose commendable career includes the creation of a plasma thruster design for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is on an ambitious mission.

TIL Falcon 9 uses plasma thrusters. (I'm reasonably confident it does not.)

Did the author mean the hall-effect thrusters used on Starlink?

Yeah, the headline and article aren't great, and conflates fuel and propellant, but the technology is reasonable.

How is this different from randomly gathering water and producing H2 and O2 with the same energy source?

Hydrogen is actually kind of scarce in the inner solar system, so metal ion thrusters would be be useful for low-thrust applications.

My condolences. It always hurts to lose a rodent friend.

Rest in peace, Pistache. You will continue to be remembered fondly by those who loved you in life. 🐀

Wait, is Shatner playing the role of Jabba in the sail barge scene?

"Hmph! ... Hmph! ... Hmph!"

Yeah, seems like maintenance would be more challenging, but hopefully solar doesn't need much?

Yeah, Ginny filled him in on what happened:

‘The diary,’ said Riddle. ‘My diary. Little Ginny’s been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes: how her brothers tease her, how she had to come to school with second-hand robes and books, how –’ Riddle’s eyes glinted ‘– how she didn’t think famous, good, great Harry Potter would ever like her …’

– CoS, chapter 17

I imagine that once the topic of who this Harry Potter fellow was and why he was famous came up, Tom would have become very interested and pressed Ginny for more details. "He defeated who? When he was only a baby‽"