Seriously? You do not even know what depleted Uranium is (hint: Uranium unsuitable for fission) and presume to make grand statements? Pathetic.

Might be a canary, i.e. a test of how much stupidity and potentially insecure automation OpenSSH users are willing to accept. In that case the OpenSSH maintainers team is not stupid, but has been compromised. Would make sense...

You compare velocity and temperature? Have you failed physics 101 completely?

The nuclear fuel we have on this planet is our entry-ticket for exploring and colonizing the solar system. The most stupid thing that can be done with it is using it to generate electricity, because that can be done in a number of other ways. At the same time, until fusion takes off (if ever...), fissionable material is irreplaceable and cannot be made artificially.

It will go on forever. Just think of comparably stupid things like the "war on drugs". It has been going on since 1920, with nothing to show than massively increased damage, but zero result in consumption. Stupid people stop their fanaticism only when they face overwhelming opposition.

Sanderson actually delivered pretty good books to conclude tWoT. Far better than the last few by Jordan.

I agree. On the other hand, if you read only the 20% or so of chapters you like, even the last books are pretty good. I have to admit that there were quite a few things I only understood when watching the movies though ;-)

You may be on to something there...

The only one here that said anything about "magic" is you. I am merely pointing out that there is pretty compelling evidence that the physicalist model is incomplete and that it is stupid to insists that it is actually complete and accurate, as are the conclusions drawn from it.

Sure, that is a meta-analysis I am doing here, an decidedly not beginner's stuff.

That is actually a complete fail on your part. The theory is getting refined, not invalidated. That is a different process. Also, if it is an entity then it is real. Really, you are confused and rather dramatically so.

Or in other words: There are a lot of bad scientists around that cling to the little part of science that they thought they had mastered. When it turns out they did not, they turn irrational. Good scientists do not regard it as a loss if a theory they have worked on turns out to be invalid. They are intrigued, applaud the advancement of knowledge, regard their working on the failed theory as getting more insight and skill, and move on.

The sad thing is that Sturgeon's Law applies to scientists as well. It also matches my experience as a scientist, and especially as a peer-reviewer: Good researchers and good research is rare, most do small incremental and usually irrelevant stuff, because they do not have what it takes. Many of these researchers also excel at hindering, sabotaging, ridiculing and stealing from researchers that are actually good at it.

Indeed. The success of religion clearly shows that most people are not actually interested in knowledge or understanding, but rather want to be lied to as long as they like the lie and it comes as absolute truth.

Unfortunately, your observation is very accurate. And with politics and religions liking what science finds less and less, it gets worse.

So for a question of personal comfort ("doing research as you see fit") you are willing to throw the human race under the bus? I call that exceptionally selfish. It is quite enough if those exceptionally gifted are allowed to do self-directed research, an there are enough academic positions for those.

And hence you support my argument. Living matter is the other thing we do not know whether it is even physically possible as, as you rightfully point out, there is no theory explaining it that is purely physics-based. And all attempts to create from non-living matter have failed. Sure, doing it is just a decade or a few away, but has been so for a long time and consistently fails to materialize. Sounds awfully like true AI. But you are wrong again: We do _not_ know that living matter follows the laws of physics. That is a pure assumption, and about as valid as the assumption that "there is a god". In other words ridiculous. The only thing we know is that living matter, once killed, does follow the laws of physics. You cannot even measure that with the required precision in a living organism, because doing so kills it. What we also know is that living matter mostly seems to follow the laws of physics, but there is a rather large margin of uncertainty that we cannot reduce.

What you seem to miss here is that the laws of physics are absolutes. Have even a tiny deviation from them and you have something extra-physical. We even know where this may come in: Quantum effects are "true random" (a scientific form of saying "we have no clue, just some statistics"), and the human brain has an exceptionally large amount of them influencing its working in the synapses. That does look like an interface like nothing else does. Even tiny deviations in the probabilities, applied in many places at once, would be enough to control the whole thing.