I for one welcome our mask overlords

Is it just me or does their language look just like AppleScript?

And how can you claim that:
set foo to bar on baz
is "less code" than
bar.foo = baz
? 90% less? Yea right.

In House MD when they suggest a diagnosis that means sure death for the patient that diagnosis is ignored because if it has no practical use anyway, no matter if it is true or not. The same logic should be applied to the folding@home project. If these guys are correct and we need to brute force this problem the way they're doing it, we're basically screwed because even with moores law running for decades more we'll still not be able to computationally solve novel proteins in any meaningful time. In essence, if they are correct we should shut down folding@home directly and focus all our efforts on high throughput electron/xray/nmr/syncrotron crystallographic methods because they have at least a theoretical chance of being practically useful. One wonders why people like this manage to secure funding for such a large scale death march.

I'm confused. How can the DOJ, an arm of the executive, "intervene" with the courts? Doesn't that radically break the separation of powers? Or did I mix something else up?

/ a confused european

and 88 mph is the speed it takes to produce a stable orbit while time travelling (why it's not the speed of normal orbits is probably because gravity is weaker in time-travel-space). You just have to calculate the length of the trip to be an even number of revolutions and you're set.

Orwell explains why you become invisible in the intervening time when time travelling in the book "The Time Machine", which the movie is based upon.

Basically it goes like this: the amount of interaction between a time traveller T and an object O is directly proportional to the speed difference. If T moves at 200 times the normal speed of time (taking him forward 200 seconds for each second O experiences as moving forward) the electromagnetic forces will have 1/200:th of the chance to interact, and thus will interact 1/200:th as much. This also explains why T can see the outside world, because although each second gets 1/200:th of a photon per photon, he also gets 200 times the photons, which ends up as 1/1, so light will be as bright to him as if he was travelling at normal speed.

Before we discovered Relativity it was a problem, but Einstein had made it abundantly clear that it is NOT a problem.

However, Einstein also showed that gravity is an accelerating reference frame, which might be a problem since then shit is actually moving.