WC_Dirk_Gently

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How often have you had to escalate to having your supervisor activate EMS?

I'm all for crisis lines, I think they do a lot of good. However, I also think it is fairly disingenuous that most people who call in are unaware that most hotlines have similar capabilities to conventional 911 in being able to track callers locations. I'm not a volunteer, though I am vaguely familiar with the general requirements for intervention escalation. But, at the same time I think it's pretty shitty that you can go from talking about some suicidal ideation to having Police and EMS show up at your house and essentially kidnapping you for a couple hours if not a day.

We already have nuclear battery powered space craft. And this battery would not be feasible for a spacecraft in its current form. Not only because it's extremely low power output, but because it doesn't generate any significant heat which is a needed side effect of the more reactive, but subsequently shorter lived plutonium batteries currently in use.