The US Navy has broken the existing record for the power of a laser.
[...]and package it as a 100 kW weapons system[...]
So, NIF isn't a thing anymore? Or is 100kW more than 500TW and someone forgot to tell me?
The bottom line is that there are limits to how small things can get with current technology.
They're right, SSDs won't replace hard drives with the current technology. If only we had a way to improve technology over time!
Astronomers are having difficulty pinning down the galaxy's exact mass, but it's clearly the biggest bruiser within 1.5 billion light years of home
I mean, it's the largest galaxy they've seen at this point. But, if a galaxy of that size can go undiscovered for this long, how do they know there's not another one within 1.5 billion light years that's larger? Did they look at all of it, and just leave this little section for last?
Or is the summary just fabricating things that aren't in the article?
And it's easily proven:
If 2^x - 1 is prime, then neither 2^x - 1 nor 2^x is divisible by 3. Of any 3 consecutive integers, one must be divisible by 3. Therefore 2^x + 1 is divisible by 3.
Therefore 2*(2^x+1) = 2^(x+1) + 2 is divisible by 3, and so is 2^(x+1) - 1.
A (completely useless) counterexample: Let x = 2.
... but seriously, how is access to a broadband Internet connection a legal right? Somebody please explain this to me, because the article doesn't give any supporting logic.
They made a law that says everyone gets it. Isn't that all something needs to be a legal right?
Fire the vehicle examiner. You only need 1 crumple zone in an impact; it doesn't matter what car it's on. The Hummer will use the Volvo's body as the crumple zone, simple as that. This is high school physics.
Have you ever actually *seen* collisions of large SUVs and trucks with light cars? The SUVs AND their passengers fare significantly better than the other car and its passengers, by far most of the time. You have a stiff bumper hitting a much softer part of a car body, which absorbs all of the impact.
Way to fight the stereotype of SUV owners being selfish dicks!
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
