Here's the thing. Women are just as screwed up as men. However, in a slightly different way.

Most women are initially attracted to 'the "cowboy" type or the "biker" type or the "go chiefs" type'. Though I'm not sure if it's an inherent thing, or learned. But they almost never want you to actually be that way long term. They want to turn you into that "multifaceted individual", not actually be that way from the start.

Don't get me wrong, as men, we're just as screwed up as to what we're attracted to and what we want too.

Did you happen to hear that whoosh?

Hint: It wasn't from a stray round.

I don't take much stock in this story due to such a small sample size, limited history, and that the numbers over the history of it don't even show a trend at this point.

Still, the "mystery" of IT has been diminishing for years as most people are at least familiar with computers now. The days of the BOFH are more or less over. So most people have a hard time accepting "I can't do what you want because digital Zeus says it can't be done". Everyone needs their own phone, OS, program, or whatever.

The younger generations are also always lazier than the older ones. It was true when the baby-boomers were young, then gen-x, and now millenilals. In some ways it's true. It takes a few years to develop a good work ethic. But it's often that the newest generation just has a different way of doing things because they view the world differently.

I got my wife a Roomba vacuum robot 6 or 7 years ago. She admitted to me that at first she thought it was a waste of money. But after using it for a day or two, she changed her mind completely. We set it up to clean the first floor of our house at night. We just got a Neato BotVac series one this week. It's a big improvement over the older Roomba.We still run the upright vacuum cleaner every couple of weeks. But in a house with three large dogs, it would be a daily chore w/o the robot vacuums. It's not Rosie the robot, but they are a time saver for us.

I think my daughter was a little disappointed. She was expecting to be able to have a conversation with the Roomba one. Or at least R2D2 level of responses.

Like I said, it may never happen. But if it comes to pass that rotten dinosaurs are no longer a viable option, we may launch big fucking computer tracked magnifying glasses into orbit to focus enough energy to make it possible. Or use orbital solar powered lasers, or microwave transmission. We could do the same from the ground, it's probably less likely to cook the general population if it's coming from the ground.

Powered flight in heavier than air craft wasn't possible 150 years ago. Just look at all of the advances there have been in that time. Who knows what the next 150 years will bring.

And that's why I finished my post with the following: "It's probably not a practical solution currently. But as efficiencies increase, it's at least feasible it may be at some point in the future."

Battery tech has also been improving recently. There's no reason that it may become much lighter in the future and a combination of PV and batteries may become practical. It's also entirely possible that PV will never reach the necessary efficiencies and batteries don't reach the energy density necessary. That's why I said "may" in both cases.

I would think it also depends on when the plane is flying. If it's entire trip is during daylight hours, and it's above the clouds as most larger aircraft flights are, then you may be able to use solar panels in place of the majority of the batteries. Plus you won't have to carry the weight (as much) in fuel.

It's probably not a practical solution currently. But as efficiencies increase, it's at least feasible it may be at some point in the future.

As someone who has been involved in several hundred medical research projects (at various institutions), I'm calling BS on this. While some multi-center studies may receive data with patient identifiers, they will either be rejected or scrubbed of these identifiers prior to being added to the database and being analyzed. If an institution is too incompetent to do this, then I'd question the validity of their results anyhow.

And your WOOSH points too. ;-)

Oh, and get your heart to beat at 500 bpm, or something. ;-)