Boeing chose to accept that engine and cowl design. It's not ONLY Southwest maintenance.

If you say "responsibility is mixed", I'll agree, but if you imply that it's not Boeing's fault I'll disagree. If I have a cracked tail light, and it costs a thousand dollars to fix, yeah, it's my fault for not fixing it, but it's also the fault of the guy who designed it to be impossible to maintain.

No, the part he's missing is the idea that one can't model this while ignoring time dilation. Not even approximately accurately.

In a way, you're right. But it's not right to be dismissive of it.

Aether was a concept used to explain certain observed phenomena. So is dark energy (and dark matter). It successfully explains many observations, and ANY replacement theory will need to do at least as well at explaining those observations. Aether encountered Michelsonâ"Morley, which it couldn't explain. It will not be unexpected if dark energy encounters something analogous. But so far there's no alternative that works as well.

Scotland was annexed by force. So was Alsace-Lorraine (multiple times). Then there's Ireland. Nationalists in different countries have different ideas about what the "natural and correct" boundaries are. (And what about Texas and California? Those "revolutions" weren't from the people whose ancestors lived there.)

There's LOTS of other examples. If you say, you think Ukraine has a right to independence. OK. Lots of people agree with that. But lots of Russian nationalists don't. Look up the long and bloody history of "adverse possession".

Are they on state land or federal land? IIUC state laws don't apply to federal land.

Nationalism would be a good enough reason to invade Taiwan were it not (reasonably) strongly defended. And Ukraine was a part of the USSR without causing WWIII. So I don't find your arguments convincing.

Also " In 1885, the Qing empire designated Taiwan as Chinaâ(TM)s 22nd province. ", so calling it a "breakaway province" isn't unreasonable, and a Chinese nationalist could be expected to hold that position without respect to economic or strategic considerations.

Different places have different disasters, but just about everywhere has something or other. Texas has Hurricane driven flooding and tornadoes (though I think in different parts). Also, they've extracted a bunch of oil, so they can EXPECT increased earthquakes and land subsidence. (Those things typically take time to manifest, though, and the earthquakes aren't typically as large.)

Texas is also short on water, which semiconductor plants need. The plant will probably be willing to pay more than some other users, though...so it will be the other users that suffer.

I find Penrose extremely unconvincing. To mention just one problem, consider the thought processes of astronauts in freefall.

AFAIK, there's no way to test the hypothesis. There are lots of ideas that are (or can be) consistent with everything we know, and are impossible to test. E.g., my favorite interpretation of quantum theory is the EWG multi-world interpretation, but one of the other interpretations could be more accurate...in ways we can't test.

(OTOH, and speaking of ideas that can't be tested, I prefer an extension of the multi-world interpretation where we also have multiple pasts, and where some of the futures from one timeline can merge with some of the futures from another as they become identical...but nobody's worked out the math for that. I'm pretty sure it would work, though. So the universe is sort of an n-dimensional crystal through time in probability space.)

That never happened. The bill got referred to the committee on swamps and died there.

I think you're being over-enthusiastic. Yes, this could be a worthwhile creation, but I'd need to know lots more before I got that enthusiastic. (E.g. does it only work on pure CO2...the summary didn't say. What about standard temperature and pressure (i.e. STP)? How susceptible is the catalyst to poisoning (and by what)? Etc.

As stated this could be a zero-cost (well, ongoing cost) method to produce fuel-stock out of air and sunlight, so the claims are substantial. But in such cases one always needs to look at the caveats.

Well, that "ice age" did drive them out of Greenland. And a much more severe one earlier drove the hominins out pf Europe...for awhile.

I suspect that he's either about 18, or has never had to find a job in a tight market. (I've know some farmers and small businessmen who honestly held his opinion. Admittedly that was a few decades ago.)

Not really. The main job of a CEO is to cause other CEOs to trust them. (OTOH, AIs seem to be pretty good at getting people to trust them, even when they're hallucinating.)