No and No. It's like "He waited his whole darn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down he thought - "Well, isn't this nice?""

Ironically, that may be the only irony in the whole song.

How does one use a single atom as a "slit"? Isn't this just bouncing single photons off of single atoms? Or "grazing" them? How does that relate to a double slit in any way? Or generate diffraction gradients?

Pounding it into the collective psyche, and going the extra mile for metric accuracy!

I don't see that at all - it was an iron-clad guarantee that the US would step in.... by bringing motions to the UN Security Council. I have not doubt whatsoever that the US ambassador to the UN made a vigorous resolution to aid Ukraine when it was invaded. Exactly what we said we would do! And nothing more.

And, since it was Russia that invaded, they Vetoed any and all resolutions brought before the UN. After the Korean war Russia will NEVER boycott or not attend a UN Security Council meeting again.

And whenever something is described as a "delicacy" translate in your head to "someone was at one time desperate enough to eat this".

Since it is possible to create a catastrophic condition from moving them incorrectly at certain times in a flight, how about .... I don't know .... AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER?

If you make it a pain in the ass to do, it can't be done by mistake.

Predicting the stock market will never be a thing, because the stock market is not a natural process. It is a summation of thousands upon thousands of plans, plots, manipulations, bets, etc. - all from individuals. In war, no plan survives contact with the enemy. And there you just have one to worry about, not thousands. Any patterns discovered will be found out, then incorporated into new thinking, on a never ending cycle.

Yep - I'd say the same. I just looked up the width of the largest cruise ship for a comparison. It's about 66 meters - 1/3rd of the Line - and there's no sense of too small a space on a cruise ship (for me at least, and the majority of people given the popularity). So 200 meters is actually plenty.

I bet they are counting cruise ship passengers in that total - a bunch move through Houston. And all ships crews that pass through Houston.

Could not agree more - could go so far as to call it collective laziness.

Video is a terrible medium for conveying information - verbal information is incredibly slow, and watching someone taking out screws one by one is just wasting everyone's time.

Trying to diagnose a problem with a robot lawnmower, I sat through *3 hours* of videos and gleaned about 10 tips that, on a written write up of what the guy did, I could have found and digested in about 10 minutes.

I have seen some good videos, mind you. But the average one is just sad. And near useless most of the time.

" It also sought to help enforce a further promise from 50 oil and gas companies made at the Dubai COP28 climate summit in December 2023 to eliminate methane and routine gas flaring."

Taking a page from the current administration, all methane flaring has now been classified as "Emergency!" gas flaring.

See? We got rid of all the 'routine' gas flaring. We are so environmental. Where's my Nobel prize?

THIS is why I come here. Thanks swillden! A back of the envelope calculation for the win!

""The neighbour's cat" does not actually speak to you, tell you you're fine and tell you to stop your meds, and provide manufactured "evidence" to reinforce and amplify and delusions you may have. "

Duh. Of course not. The demon possessing the neighbor's cat is speaking to you. Have a little common sense!

And then I must write it down, or it will be lost forever. Apparently my mind is keen on discovering that a solution exists. Not so keen on implementing it. So I have had some great ideas and solutions, then my mind goes "OK, solved that one! Whew!" and as soon as possible throws it away. Invariably long before morning.

Totally agree with this - not everyone has the talent or the temperament to be an effective engineer.

Are 5% of the population able to cut it? I think that may be a little high, but a defensible opinion. 36% of any population? No way. Absolutely no way.