For me the visualization of direct collapse black hole formation is that there's still a huge mass of gas falling in, at the boundary of the new black hole nearly dense enough to direct collapse itself. The blowback would compress the inflow over the density edge and you get a whole cloud of black holes.
Why are you whining about this? Do you have a personal beef with this editor? Why bring up anyone's name at all?`
Slashdot is well known for petty snarky-ness and ADHD style nitpicking, which is one of the reasons I come here. I can indulge all I want in somewhat hostile posting and it fits right in. (This post is an example.) Still, you have managed to irritate me with your dumbass comment, which is some sort of accomplishment, but nothing to be proud of.
Crawl back under your rock.
It's pretty cool that they're seeing where the supermassive black holes come from. The models of what's happening in there must be amazing.
freeing humans for more interesting and specialized work
Translation to normal speech: making humans unemployed, homeless, and hungry without health care or a social safety net in order to increase corporate wealth.
They're an advertising company, not a hardware company.
Don't forget the surveillance for profit revenue.
It's part of the bullshit-in/bullshit-out AI bubble.
Think of all the money that could be saved if that class was replaced by AI and their grift was invested in the well-being of normal humans. We could achieve the AI economy that could free so many people from grinding poverty and get a science fiction utopia.
Unfortunately we're going to get the Morloch/Eloi dystopia of H. G. Wells Time Machine, except the elites will consume the underclass. Think of the more recent Harkonnens in Dune.
I wonder how many more campaigns of harassment are ongoing
Look no further then every Trump/DOJ revenge prosecution in the last year, along with the ICE/gestapo masked anonymous death squads, and the concentration camps being built all over the country.
Example: relatives of the NYT reporters who broke the story on the Qatar Trump 747 bribe aircraft being unsafe had their phone records subpoenaed by the FBI.
Don't forget that you are paying for all of it and it's going to get far worse real soon.
Timeline hopper here, just through the gate from funny laugh lady land. Believe it or not in that line Musk is still the richest man ever over there - richer even - but he's a woke social librul because he knows which side of his bread has butter on it.
Notably, President Harris also prefers rockets that will launch to rockets that will not for some reason.
But don't eat the fish. Just in case.
>[T]he oligopoly seems to be facing the first credible challenge to its capacity discipline...
What an interesting way to describe that. A disciplined way, you might say.
Watching was a thrill ride from beginning to end. Still issues with Booster landing but they will sort it out. The re-entry tiles did great. The satellites did great. Ship did so well they will try for a catch next time, if there's nothing counter in the flight data.
Hardware rich development proves itself again. The next one is built and being fitted out for a launch just a couple months away. Behind it, the factory has begun several more.
It's hard to believe they started building this on a beach in tents, with a flying water tower.
No matter what Ellison comes out personally richer while the rest of us pay the bill.
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs. -- Tom Lehrer
