Nope. Trump will just blow it up. :-)

They love the taste of Kool-Aid in the morning ...

Don't forget that Iran still has their stockpile of uranium and enriched uranium, and some unknown quantity of drones and ballistic missiles (and can build more). And Trump suspended sanctions on Iranian (and Russian) oil sales, to soften U.S. fuel prices. I get the feeling that, despite all his talk, Trump doesn't really understand the word, "winning". But, hey, the U.S. blew up a *bunch* of stuff and used/wasted a large portion of our super expensive Tomahawk missiles and other ordinances, burned through a ton of fuel and lost pretty expensive F-15, A-10 and E-3 AWACS planes and a couple of other aircraft in the rescue for the downed F-15 pilot - not to mention got 3 U.S. service people killed and hundreds wounded, as well as kill thousands of Iranians.

So... Trump muses about the U.S. imposing passage fees/tolls on a foreign body of water, totally unconnected to the U.S., and Arab countries reimbursing the U.S. for a war he started on a whim (apparently talked into it by Benjamin Netanyahu, who's had a 47-year hard-on for this). Also, continues to misunderstand "winning". Classic Trump.

I didn't see the OP, so you'll have to be more specific with this Administration. :-)

Maybe they'll take these? /snark

"Parameters such as size, drift, and environmental interference often constrain classical sensors. Quantum sensors by contrast can measure fields with precision down to one millionth of Earth’s magnetic signal, enabling the detection of magnetic signals over longer ranges and in environments where signals are weak or noisy. Additionally, the stability of quantum reference states enables drift-free measurements, circumventing the need for constant recalibration and ensuring that users can compare data sets with high reliability. And quantum sensors optimize size, weight, and power parameters. Miniaturized designs make them ideal for deployment on small autonomous platforms such as drones, or in restricted spaces such as inside medical equipment or in underground sensors." ~ https://www.photonics.com/Arti...

This is the New York Post, the US equivalent of a British tabloid. Just because they don't have topless women on page 3 doesn't make them any more credible.

There was a time when the people who complained about soldered RAM (and I was one of those people) were a significant enough proportion of the community that manufacturers would pay attention. This was the age when gaming PCs were constructed from high end pieces from the wild-assed cases to the heavy duty PSUs to overclocked CPUs and next gen GPUs.

But overall, that segment of the consumer market has dwindled. Most folks just want to charge their new machine up, connect it to their WiFi network and get going. On the corporate end of things, save for pretty niche areas like engineering and R&D, a cube you can plug a keyboard, mouse and camera into and will last through a few upgrade cycles before it's sold back to a refurb outfit is all that is needed. Nobody in IT departments is pulling RAM chips anymore, particularly at RAM prices right now! Even the folks writing operating systems are starting to get it, and have rediscovered the glory of native apps that don't required bloated Javascript engines just to select a few radio buttons.

Yes, Windows 11 is really that bad. It's cluttered, slow, inconsistent. I've seen it on pretty high end hardware, and it's a dog. And that's before we even talk about how they tried to insert Copilot into everything. It's a shitty version of Windows and even Redmond acknowledges it. It was the impending EOL of Windows 10 that lead me to buy an M1 MacBook Pro, and I've never looked back. If I want to run Linux, I've got servers set up to do that kind of heavy lifting, but I have absolutely no need for whatever it is MS is trying to sell me these days.

A lot of people want a Mac because they have a nice form factor and they work in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks were a bit expensive. It's obvious that an iPad masquerading as a Macbook was going to work, because a lot of people like a proper keyboard and don't need touchscreen. Macbook Neo fits a perfect niche. I'm not surprised by its success, I'm just surprised that Apple are. I'm stunned their business case didn't imagine bigger volume. Why buy a more expensive Macbook for basic admin, web browsing, and streaming?

You may be right - I guess I've been thinking too much about Mars missions where it's a lot more important. The moon isn't that far away that it makes a big difference, from what you say.

Everything in the visible universe is subject to lunar gravity now. That's how gravity works.

One very interesting point by the dissenting judge is that if you accept the majority's broad interpretation of swaps, then not only are prediction markets swaps, but normal gambling is as well. Therefore all currently legal and regulated gambling is actually illegal because the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction, not the states, and none of these gambling operations are following CFTC rules.

Reasonable to assume that, in fact, we might choose to fly to the moon when it's closer to perigee.