Your error is on this line:

104,544,000 square feet / (5280 feet / mile) = 19,800 square miles

You need to square the denominator so that you're dividing by the number of square feet in a square mile. 104,544,000/5280^2 = 3.75

An acre is 1/640th of a square mile, so 2,400 acres/640 = 3.75 sq miles.

An acre is defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is equal to 10 sq chains. There are 80 chains in a mile, or 6,400 sq chains, hence dividing by 640.

God, I love these old units. They make me feel so feudal!

I skimmed a few of the referenced papers back to something in 1986.

It turns out that the practical implementation of a theoretical perfect (quantum) random bit generator (the example given in one paper was a zener diode[1]) always has some skew. This might vary over time but, for example, a random bit stream that is biased to more ones than zeros over the last 10s is more likely than not suffering from some temporary bias that an attacker can at least theoretically use.

Using classical physics it's possible to remove this bias so that you have a pseudo-random stream that is, for all practical purposes perfect however it's (apparently[2]) provable that doing this in the classical domain is theoretically open to attack due to the original bias.

What this has done is allowed a quantum process to do that post filtering so that even the theoretical attack on the pseudo-random stream driven from an almost perfect RNG is gone.

[1] example here - different paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/f...

[2] I took it on trust - one paper said it was proved in another referenced paper, I didn't try to check if it really did say that and I certainly didn't even try to follow a proof...

You're thinking of supercavitation. While it's something used for underwater vessels such as torpedoes, is it the same principle for partially submerged hulls?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A lot of bread is ultra processed food, which will kill you. Have you noticed that it no longer goes mouldy or stale like it used to? That ain't natural.

When are when are we going to see American ships in the Caspian Sea?

Americans forces stationed in Afghanistan couldn't stop things getting across the border in to Afghanistan, so how successful do you think they're going to be when they're not even in the country?

As long as the US blockades the Straits of Hormuz, so will Iran. Iran has more tolerance to pain than American voters do. Today's news: Trump chickened out again and didn't attack Iran.

I'm all for criticising Israel; what they've done in Gaza is disproportionate and probably amounts to war crimes. This doesn't change the fact that there is widespread left wing antisemitism. See for example the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on Labour antisemitism, published in October 2020, that found the Labour Party had committed unlawful acts of discrimination and harassment against Jewish members, highlighting serious failings in its handling of antisemitism complaints and political interference in the process. The former leader of the Labour Party who wanted to be prime minister continues to downplay it and deny there was a problem. AmiMojo has defended the man on this site and posted on multiple occasions that demonstrate his position. Many people in the UK are using Jewish people as a proxy for Israel and there's been a rise of violent antisemitic hate crimes against them. They don't deserve to live in fear, but the leaders of left wing parties in the UK will not speak out, just like AmiMoJo won't either.

Demonstrably wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You and your leftwing antisemitic claptrap. Are you ready to admit yet that Israel is also in an existential struggle against organisations on all sides hellbent on the genocide of Israel, funding by a state whose official policy is the genocide of Israel (that's Iran, if you're wondering)? When are you going to call them out for their actions?

Don't get me wrong, while I support Israel's right to defend itself, the way it's gone about it in Gaza is wrong. But unlike you, that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore the realities of both sides of this complicated and horrific conflict.

It's people like you who are fuelling the rise of antisemitism. That's also wrong.

s/blockage/blockade/g

Fucking autocorrect.

The US has tried to blockage a little island off the coast of Florida for over 60 years without success. North Korea has sticking the finger up for even longer. I can't imagine the US will succeed against a country of 1.6 million km^2 and 92 million people the other side of the world where the US has limited resources simply by trying to blockage them. The US couldn't keep the neighbouring Afghanistan under control with boots on the ground FFS.

And they will still threaten the Straits of Hormuz and thus cause economical problems for the rest of the world, including the US. We're in the age of cheap drones. Ukraine chased off the Russian navy. It looks like the US navy is scared to get involved in opening of the straits and protecting shipping.

And yet Iran would still threaten the Straits of Hormuz and force prices and inflation up for ordinary Americans. Iran has a different criteria for success. Trump is behaving like Putin prior to Feb 2022, and finding out it doesn't work. You can't win just by bombing, something we've known since WW2. Unless you're proposing using nukes, but that would bring isolation and more costs on the US.

Yet somehow they've demonstrated the limits of US power. Donald Trump is now stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Well done, but you appear to be in the minority. Maybe you havenâ(TM)t used other tools much?