But by the time you get that, she'll be over 50, and not at all as appealing.

What you don't understand is the Python is often used as a method of invoking libraries that are written in more efficient languages. And for the layer that it handles it doesn't introduce unacceptable inefficiencies. E.g., you wouldn't want to do ray tracing in Python, but it's fine for calling a library that does that.

I'm quite sure quantum computers are valid. Whether they're useful is another question. I'll agree that it's not clear that general purpose quantum computers will ever be useful. (I won't agree that it's clear they never will be useful.)

OTOH, specialized quantum computers are already useful. DWave sells one design.

There really are good use cases for fission reactors. Solar can't handle everything, even combined with wind and the grid. (But close.)

E,g,, I think that the case for fission reactors on the moon is sound, though any particular implementation may be quite questionable.

It is if you're a journalist or financial analyst with nothing else to write about. Nice thing is that it happens all the time. Pretty much every other day if you don't restrict yourself to the difference between open and close.

That would be ideal, but I don't think it's really necessary. Just keeping the list a subject of public debate is sufficient to prevent things from getting too skewed.

There is zero evidence of this, and the fact that you seem to believe it makes me dismiss everything else you might say out of hand, because you clearly either lack or don't engage critical thinking skills.

... two warning signs are red colour and bluing when cut, and this has them both.

... in Europe is roughly 5 degrees centigrade above worst case scenarios projected for the year 2050 back in 2016. Germany will likely crack the 40 degree mark in multiple locations at the end of this week. Once again a new heat record. I personally expect this to only get more intense in the next years until perhaps the gulf stream completely shuts down.

These are cascading effects kicking in and ramping up. It wouldn't stop if the planet went net-zero carbon tomorrow. So we're pretty f*cked, as predicted ever since 1970. I'm curious how hard though. Guess we'll find out soon.

... in some parts, contains bucketloads of over-the-top excess trivia in others and has sections that are flat-out provably false. If the sections chiefs don't think an article is important, they delete it. That's why poets important to the development of a language and culture sometimes don't even have an entry, let alone more that 3 lines while some third-grade rapper that made some noise 10 years back has an essay with 10 000 words covering every detail of their private life.

I've seen flat-out bullshit on wikipedia more than once, I've corrected some things, roughly 30% get rolled back. If an area of expertise has asshole/dimwitt chief editors (or whatever they are called in wikipedia-speak) I often just give up and don't bother.

Wikipedia is a reflection of our times and what's important to us. And it should be viewed as such. With a pound of salt.

Lol. You just want to complain. Now that I've pointed out your weird complaint is bullshit you're off on some other tangents.

There is no reactor in the world that can "burn" fission products, aka "WASTE".

Not much (> 10% IIRC) of the uranium fuel is fissioned in a typical light water reactor. The "waste" from those reactors contains that unused uranium and fission products, many of which are themselves fissionable. Plutonium for example. Reprocessing can be used to recover fission fuel from the "waste".

https://world-nuclear.org/info...

Reprocessing is pretty standard. Far from "no reactor in the world", pretty much all reactors can used reprocessed fuel. CANDU can too, as well, including plutonium either from reprocessing or weapons disposal. However, reprocessing is expensive. The DUPIC process basically involves running spent PWR fuel through a CANDU with minimal reprocessing. Basically just chopping it up and packaging it so it fits.

https://inis.iaea.org/records/...

Stupid brainwashed Americans.

1. I'm not American.
2. Can you say "ultracrepidarian?"

They can also run on thorium.
Unlikely. Thorium has to be bread into Uranium before fission. I do not think a CANDU reactor can do that (without upgrade or modification).

At least you're willing to admit there's a possibility you're wrong on this one. No, it doesn't run on pure thorium. You mix it with uranium or plutonium.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://www.nucnet.org/news/cl...

I don't think that would matter in practice. This law wouldn't let them specify what *news* is allowed, only what news sources, and there would be a huge stink if they tried to block the major real news outlets. They'd like to, I'm sure, but I really doubt that they'd succeed.

Russiagate was absolutely not "proven false". Mueller's report and both the House and Senate reports (from committees led by Republicans) thoroughly verified it.

Yes:

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

L1 is where you want to put solar observatories. L2 is popular for not-solar observatories. L4 and L5 not as much, but there are some satellites like Stereo A and B that passed close, and the ESA plans to put a solar observatory actually at L5.