There may also be some energy released from the battery materials themselves burning (like, an uncharged battery might have a significant amount of energy to release when combusting)

What’s the y axis here? I love public transit but 10k riders a month would not be an impressive figure.

It seems like the structural properties of the foam could be tricky to get right. If it’s not strong enough it could fail under drag forces or turbulence in the atmosphere, but if it’s too strong then the astronaut would be unable to free themselves once they landed.

Maybe it’s a sign of how the times have changed but the bedroom TV strikes me as an outlier in an otherwise wholesome scene.

I’m curious about the use of the word “laser” here. The description says the comic is from 1939 but the laser wouldn’t be invented until the 1960s. And the word “laser” is a really specific acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) that doesn’t seem be appear in sci fi before then (There were heat rays and blasters but no lasers from what I can tell).

The beginning areas of the video game The Secret World are in New England, and it unironically nails this vibe really well.

What in the world is the original context here? Have these people never encountered a puddle before? Her foot is completely immersed in gutter water and his white pants are about to be soaked and gross.