Or chloromidians? Was there any mention of chlorine on it?

In the absence of chlorine, would flouromidians form? Would flouromidian-based life have any unusual properties?

Or whatever it is that tricorders detect?

Or souls? Did it make a detour through our solar system to pick up a few souls for later use?

Never would have believed it was a fake.

Why are you searching only for 11" when you were originally comparing to an Air, which only comes with 13" and 15" screens?

In the Windows world, the best values tend to be in the 15" class, while smaller screens are generally on more premium models.

And yes, there are a lot of options. Some of us like that, instead of being at the whims of what one manufacturer wants to offer in a given generation.

Maybe they're looking for the heat signature of crypto mining.

People are already being entertained buy the unending revelations from the Epstein files.

And shocked, though not particularly awed.

Interestingly, in one of the Gnostic Gospels, Jesus is quoted as saying when he departed that he had to go visit "sheep of other folds, that you know not of".

(paraphrasing from memory)

Most of it is aliens flying around in stealth spaceships. We can't spot them, except that they haven't figured out a way to hide their mass.

So galaxies with more DM are more technologically developed than the others. In this all-DM galaxy they must have used up almost everything else to build ships.

No, it's just some of that "darkness on the face of the deep" left over from Creation.

God didn't need all of that "waste and void" to shape into what He wanted for our universe, so He left bits of it in its natural form here and there.

Some of us think basing our beliefs on evidence is a good thing.

Unlike tradition and revelation, where new evidence is something to be ignored or explained away.

Because they don't want to.

Perhaps all their imagination is all used up on other things, like people who suffer the ill effects of 5G from nearby cell towers that haven't even been activated.

We must be amid a major feline extinction event.

bothers me.

There is an unexplained phenomena and this "dark matter" and "dark energy" is just a made up explanation for that. There is no evidence it exists. No experiments we've done show that it exists and as far as I know there aren't even any proposed experiments that just need funding that are likely to show it exists.

Saying a galaxy is 99.9% something that we have no clue if even exists seems insane.

It's like string theory. Just made up stuff that is just tuned as needed to match measurements. It's like a god of the gaps - it's constantly adjusted to match experimental data.

Same thing happened when Bush's Big Iraqi Adventure went pear-shaped.

I can see google/apple having a problem with "free" apps that people want to host and have installed from official app stores and then only allow behind the scenes payment where google/apple don't get a cut.

Presumably google/apple will have a rule for this where you're charged a certain amount for pushing new versions (which require validation) and per-install costs that would be offset by payment %'s that those companies take.

And then hopefully they're still good for truly free apps.

Yes, a Chromebook that is likely several years old and cost $200 is going to be disappointing compared to a $1000 laptop from a premium manufacturer.

There is an awful lot of middle ground between those, though.