Confirmation bias.

Definitely. Depends on who you ask, but most historians agree the USA was at its prime either during the interbellum, or the WWII - late 1950's period.

It doesn't even have to power anything but itself, I wouldn't mind having a few implanted to burn calories and help with weight loss.

Why would you want to do that? If I had to pick a single evolutionary mental bias that hasn't been turned obsolete by us becoming a technological society, it's the fear of death. It's right to want to exist, and do everything in your power to prevent the end of your existence. I am terrified as fuck of dying, and that's OK, because that's the only way we'll ever do something about it. If people conquered their fears of getting eaten by tigers or trampled by mammoths (as opposed to doing something about it), we'd go extinct.

If you have any proof to the contrary,I'll be happy to hear it.

Relying on a "Cloud" service is like relying on clouds to provide shade in the Mediterranean summer.

I don't respond well to people trivialising death. A canned response just isn't appropriate for an atrocity of this proportion. On average, some 10000-15000 people per day were dying as a direct result of WWII. Did people just shrug and go "RIP" when someone they happened to know died? Then why is this the response when we have ten times that many dying, most from entirely preventable causes?

Nor did he "pass on", nor is he "resting in peace". The pattern that made up his consciousness was destroyed and he ceased to exist. Please, stop repeating these tired, superstitious cliches. It cheapens the finality and horror of death. A sentient agent has ceased to exist. Explaining this away with semi-religious terminology just doesn't do it justice.

Unlike the majority of the ~162000 people who will also stop existing today, dmr will not be forgotten, and future generations will continue to use his life's work and benefit from it. I won't say something ridiculous like "he lives on through his work", but I do in fact believe that to be the highest distinction a mortal sentient entity can achieve.

I'd much rather prolong my lifespan so I can see whether we do.

Yes, I'm aware radical life extension is a very sensitive topic. I hope to spend many centuries to properly think it over.

Because the people who award them want to be almost-completely-sure it's legit after they gave a guy a prize for discovering "the parasite that causes cancer" in the 20s. This is why most Nobel prizes tend to be for stuff that's been happening for years.

Tree of liberty, blood of patriots, permanent freedom, temporary safety, et cetera.

(I await the SA with bated breath)

Those facts are not intended for public consumption by the goyim, citizen!

It's (Atacama (large (millimetre array))), not (Atacama (large (millimetre)) array).

S-expressions: They're superior to natural grammar.

That kind of conflicts and would be easily mistaken for the F (farad), the unit for capacitance. Also, in physics you generally don't name two units after the same person.

So since there is no observational, experimental or inferential evidence that points to the existence of a god, you're willing to concede that religious people who are unwilling to take this lack of evidence into account and re-consider their beliefs are, in fact, exhibiting a lack of rationality?