I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

Seems a dumb bet, as if it had blown up the entire state or the world, nobody would be alive to pay up. Perhaps Fermi was just trolling.

By the way, we have similar decision coming up as to whether to bring Mars samples back to Earth. There's a non-zero chance they will have microbes we have no immunity for, and all parish. I realize we already have meteorites blasted off Mars, but they were heated both on the way up and down.

Marketers are used to that shit.

be big and controversial someday. They can't be banned because they can be arranged out of country.

Humans invent ever more ways to F up Earth.

David Ricardo's grave is now releasing methane.

Soviet era cubicles are made of solid steel. Small, but can handle a nuclear blast.

It's a status symbol for the rich and spoiled, investment value means shit to them.

TACO Tuesday

NuffsedGPT

...be very pissed!

doing all the other stuff mentioned. Without experience, one is not going to make a very good domain analyst, for example.

Can I come visit you? I promise I won't snore.

Maybe Ukraine hackers can frame bunches of Russian military commanders. Put gay S&M Putin AI porn on all their desktops.

Yip, the Project 2025 people are looking at Putin's ban list and salivating. Their local libraries already cover some.

and "How do I avoid having a window office in a high-rise?"