Your damage estimates are flat out wrong. 200-300 meters of infrastructure destruction for a 10 megaton nuke? Are you on crack?

Watch some of the nuclear weapons documentaries - like 'Trinity and Beyond'. Look at the aftermath at ground zero after some of the blasts. Bikini atoll after Castle Bravo is a good one.

If the smile auditing machine told me I didn't look happy enough, prior to my first work coffee of the day, there's be a serious danger that I'd attack it with a fire axe.

It was boring because, like the UK Robot Wars, they made the program entirely wrong. Nobody cares about the teams back story. The commentators knew nothing about it and added nothing. In a half hour program there was about 5 minutes of actual robots fighting.

There was potential there. Some battles were entertaining. It's also not true to say that there was ever any massive destruction (in the UK one at least). The 'spinners' with 30kg+ flywheels occasionally totally annihilated an opponent. 'Razer' in the UK also finished of a number of opponents with a hydraulically powered crushing weapon in a fairly permanent way.

If this is the case the photons should be detectable. We can design experiments sensitive to the level of a single photon so this is not too much to ask.

Beyond their examples and a few symbolic calculus examples I haven't actually got it to return anything other than "I'm not sure what to do with your input"

None of the commercial growers would be producing any pollen. Female plants are grown exclusively; either from female only seeds or by killing off the male plants long before they produce pollen.

Rubbish

emacs is clearly superior

While smash brothers is a fun game it is not in the same league of complexity as the good fighting games.
Capcom put a 'noob mode' in a few of it's 2D fighters. 'Streetfighter vs Marvel Super Heroes' being one I remember. In that mode special moves like a dragon punch or even the supers could be triggered by direction+2 buttons. There was still incentives to learn the moves as someone who could do them 'properly' could vary the strength (and consequently speed, range) of them depending on which of the 3 strength buttons they used whereas 'noob mode' was limited to just fierce strength versions.

Unfortunately S Vs MSH was too broken to find out how well this let new players fight experienced people.

Google essentially already does this. Type "what is the melting point of iron" into google.

That's a crazy price. My uni's print shop will do it for less than that, hardback, and they have an actual human gluing it together. I know because I've done it with an out of print text book that the author was kind enough to provide me with a pdf of.

1998, spent an age trying to get some random distro (old Red Hat?) to play nice with my graphics card. Never did succeed. I'm glad that such fruitless struggles are (mostly!) a thing of the past...

We actually get ~5% of our electricity from France via the HVDC Cross-Channel link. It runs at full capacity most of the time

The 7.30 demand spike is nothing compared to the spikes accompanying ad breaks in highly watched TV programs.

Good plan. I'm sticking with my '85 944!

How many of those 0-60 full power starts can it do per charge?

If the dot com bubble taught us anything it was that 'having a lot of users' doesn't necessarily translate to 'going to make money.'