I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

Seems a dumb bet, as if it had blown up the entire state or the world, nobody would be alive to pay up. Perhaps Fermi was just trolling.

By the way, we have similar decision coming up as to whether to bring Mars samples back to Earth. There's a non-zero chance they will have microbes we have no immunity for, and all parish. I realize we already have meteorites blasted off Mars, but they were heated both on the way up and down.

Marketers are used to that shit.

be big and controversial someday. They can't be banned because they can be arranged out of country.

Sid you just say ignorance is bliss if you're Boeing?

This is 100% pure "AmeriKKka First" Trumpism. Donald trump is Hitler. Congratulations, you're a horrible person.

Why are those investors simultaneously smarter than you for having money and dumber than you for throwing it away on projects that befuddle you?

What if it's just mood affiliation all the way down to quark level ("charm" ...)?

How is your position different from an epicyclist who, instead of improving the sensitivity of his sensors, simply declared Aristarchus' heliocentric theory disproved because star parallax could not be measured?

How much of the universe, from entanglement to the predicted zero point energy vs. actual, is rational? Remember how Hippasus is rumored to have been killed for discovering irrational numbers? Would you have supported that?

Humans invent ever more ways to F up Earth.

David Ricardo's grave is now releasing methane.

Well, if you are intent on proving some more that you have really no clue, just continue doing this.

Would not be the first time that slimeball Altman is directly lying to the public.

The difference is that the US keeps the hacking in government hands and restricted to authorized contractors. Not much of a difference, really.

They just got found out being the sysadmins (!) for the US DoD cloud, and that would explain why China is making it now official.