What do you mean it didn't translate anything? The Rosetta Stone was a tablet with the identical passage carved into multiple languages. A direct translation of the same set of 'words'. Sure as heck fits my definition of a translation.

So tech that translates quantum oscillations (which digital computers can't do anything with) to "clean digital-like discrete states" (which digital computers are all over) sounds like a pretty close analogy to me.

Mr Wombat, you forgot to add "*across the ENTIRETY of the federal government of 1 million+ workers*"

Proof positive that any and all outlandish claims of waste and fraud in the federal government are utterly false.

When one of the most ruthless and successful businessmen in history (regardless of how you may feel about him personally, you got to give him that) can't make more than a 0.1% dent in the federal government expenditures [and not from lack of trying, that's for sure!] then the only conclusion a rational person can make is that the federal budget is screwed down pretty damn well.

Yeah, but they never let me practice! I've asked! They just say "No!".

Absolutely! "Feed Stock" is an important part of our multi-layered insurance vs. famine. That we have food that has a "plan B" helps make sure that, no matter what, we can feed all the people. If things go bad, or worse, livestock may suffer, or may be culled sooner than before, but it helps make sure we have enough for people to eat (here AND abroad). So I heartily approve of "cattle feed" grain. As should you.

I bet you can *easily* tow a boat 300+ miles with an EV - at 20-25 mph.

No and No. It's like "He waited his whole darn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought - "Well, isn't this nice?""

Ironically, that may be the only irony in the whole song.

How does one use a single atom as a "slit"? Isn't this just bouncing single photons off of single atoms? Or "grazing" them? How does that relate to a double slit in any way? Or generate diffraction gradients?

Pounding it into the collective psyche, and going the extra mile for metric accuracy!

I don't see that at all - it was an iron-clad guarantee that the US would step in.... by bringing motions to the UN Security Council. I have not doubt whatsoever that the US ambassador to the UN made a vigorous resolution to aid Ukraine when it was invaded. Exactly what we said we would do! And nothing more.

And, since it was Russia that invaded, they Vetoed any and all resolutions brought before the UN. After the Korean war Russia will NEVER boycott or not attend a UN Security Council meeting again.

And whenever something is described as a "delicacy" translate in your head to "someone was at one time desperate enough to eat this".

Since it is possible to create a catastrophic condition from moving them incorrectly at certain times in a flight, how about .... I don't know .... AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER?

If you make it a pain in the ass to do, it can't be done by mistake.

Predicting the stock market will never be a thing, because the stock market is not a natural process. It is a summation of thousands upon thousands of plans, plots, manipulations, bets, etc. - all from individuals. In war, no plan survives contact with the enemy. And there you just have one to worry about, not thousands. Any patterns discovered will be found out, then incorporated into new thinking, on a never ending cycle.

Yep - I'd say the same. I just looked up the width of the largest cruise ship for a comparison. It's about 66 meters - 1/3rd of the Line - and there's no sense of too small a space on a cruise ship (for me at least, and the majority of people given the popularity). So 200 meters is actually plenty.

I bet they are counting cruise ship passengers in that total - a bunch move through Houston. And all ships crews that pass through Houston.

Could not agree more - could go so far as to call it collective laziness.

Video is a terrible medium for conveying information - verbal information is incredibly slow, and watching someone taking out screws one by one is just wasting everyone's time.

Trying to diagnose a problem with a robot lawnmower, I sat through *3 hours* of videos and gleaned about 10 tips that, on a written write up of what the guy did, I could have found and digested in about 10 minutes.

I have seen some good videos, mind you. But the average one is just sad. And near useless most of the time.