Also, they've made a habit of turning a blind eye towards people who are blatantly committing crimes in support of the party and its agenda, including killings and pardoning those who might be prosecuted for such crimes.
Back in the day, my internet connection was so Comcastic that I couldn't watch a video on youtube, either. I'd have to cache it with youtube-dl and watch it the next day, or whenever it finished. It was weird the first time I tried to watch a video on the web page and it actually played.
I think this is a case of a word having one colloquial meaning and a different technical meaning. If you "lift" something, you're probably picking it up.
In a hydrodynamic sense, "lift" is a force on a foil moving through a fluid. This kind of lift is a force orthogonal to the direction of motion through the fluid and the surface of the foil. That could be upward lift, like that on the wings of an aircraft. That could also be the forward and leeward lift on the sail of a sailboat, or the windward lift on the sailboat's keel. It could also be the lateral, stabilizing lift on the control surfaces of a rocket.
Maybe hydrodynamic lift is what was meant, but if so, it wasn't well described; it sticks out in memory precisely because he made it sound like the fins contributed on net to reaching orbital energy and I might've yelled at the screen a little bit about that.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the legal threats were from the authors of the retracted article. Dr. Lisco only sent the journal an email notifying them of the plagiarism.
