Interesting Links for 19-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Scientists develop a 'cosmic concrete' that is twice as strong as regular concrete, made with potato starch. Even better than the one they made from blood and urine

(tags:materials mars concrete viaDanielDWilliam blood potato wtf )

2. 'Mutual free movement' for UK and EU citizens supported by up to 84% of Brits

(tags:polls UK Europe migration )

3. Russia Wants a Long War: The West Needs to Send Ukraine More Arms, More Quickly

(tags:Russia Ukraine )

4. Across the world, politicians are scapegoating LGBT people to distract from their own failures

(tags:LGBT bigotry )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Andy Weir, Ridley Scott and Matt Damon are jointly having a good long laugh if they've had this article pointed out to any of them.

2. Brexiteers can therefore get stuffed.

3. Amen to that. Whether we can manufacture the stuff fast enough is another matter, regardless of political foot-dragging on our end, but I tend to suspect that the Ukrainians will forgive physical bottlenecks in the logistics process more easily than the political bottlenecks.

4. I suspect this is all too accurate.

[armiphlage]

Without going into details, I can say that the DPA is being used to order US-based factories to postpone production of civilian production in favour of military orders.

When ordering certain commercial off-the-shelf parts with both civil and military applications, companies are now asking what the end use is.

Our factory is in Canada, but we still get the flowdowns on our purchase orders, and our suppliers won't sell certain items to us unless we state the end use.

https://www.fema.gov/disaster/defense-production-act