Ancestor spirits - saved, astronomy project - saved.

Win/win.

What of it? Your original and grossly incorrect statement was that no propeller craft can reach high altitudes, you're still wrong.

Of course you didn't. Zero multiplied by zero is still zero, zero.

Why, is losing your money any less painful if the bad decisions were made by 50 or 60 year oldfags like the management of Lehman Brothers back then?

It is really far-fetched to call the LLMs and their front-ends "AI", yes.

This drone flew at altitude of 20km back in the late 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That NASA sun-powered drone, Helios, beat the one above by a km or two and flew for weeks, IIRC.

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-conten...

Of course there is. https://wair.ac.cn/about

Why would "it" launch nuclear warheads when a nuclear war will destroy "it" more certainly than it would the people who built "it"?

Ah, the "AI Genocide".

We used to call it "masturbation" back when the Ceiling Cat was still around.

There's a button labeled "2D" somewhere around the zoom slider, does exactly that.

There was a time when people thought google was a good thing, but that was on account of not knowing enough about it.

Raises hand... Computational physics, quantum chemistry and particle physics research.

Hardware is completely impossible to buy now (unless perhaps one does weapons research).

One million optimuses in the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers by the end of 2026?

What "wall mart security room"?

The "DEF CON" itself is taking place at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Apparently it has a spy camera system that puts your average British Telescreen-enabled city to shame.

The "ban" on glasses is just dumb grandstanding by corporate sleaze that poses as "hackers" at the "DEF CON".

It used to be different, but that was so many years ago that even the memories of it are now vague.

An elegant retreat, if there ever was one, LOL.