Wow, a whole field of straw men, its a wonder you can find your way out.

If you think any of the discoveries made by the US space program wouldn't have eventually happened anyway - sure, it may have taken a bit longer - then you're deluded. Necessity is the mother of invention etc. I'm not arguing there shouldn't be a space program, thats a different matter , but saying it somehow lead to a huge leap in technology that wouldn't have happened otherwise? No, sorry. Where was the space program when the steam engine was invented? What about antibiotics? What about the digital computer (no, NASA didn't invent it)?

You got it back to front - if we still defined the second by the earths rotation by definition we wouldn't need any leap seconds.

The return on investment from tech created for space vs that based on direct funding of science and tech is pathetic. Theres almost nothing the space program gave rise to that wouldnt have happened anyway. And HEPA filters? Really? That barrel you're scraping probably has a hole in the bottom by now.

Defining time by the earths rotation? That ship sailed back in the 60s.

Except Rust has to include bounds checking in its runtime slowing it down unless you use an unsafe block in which case its no better than C. There's no free lunch.

And it would be so easy to make C safe with a single extra keyword (eg "safe") that forces inclusion of bounds checking on array access and pointer dereferencing. Hell, it could even be put in a macro so its only defined in a debug build not the production build.

No you pasty faced basement dwellers, a "journey" is when you get off your fat backsides and travel in the real world. Its not just completing a work task however long it might take.

What a load of crap. The black rat is still endemic around the world and if you think there was good sanitation in georgian or early victorian times then you need a history lesson particularly in cholera.

It's still more than fast enough except for games (and I've got a ps5 for those) plus apple thankfully havent bothered to backport their models to x86, probably due to no neural shit in the cpu.

We're all the descendents of the people who for whatever genetic reason survived the plagues in the past and thats why plaque hasn't reoccured as an epidemic since the middle ages. Even before antibiotics were created it was no longer AS dangerous to us as a species. though thats not to say its still not dangerous, just not to epidemic level.

LOL :) Newsflash - sex isn't knocking one out while watching pornhub, it needs 2 people. Maybe one day you'll find out.

Yes, the brain is excluded. Being female is defined anatomically by the sexual organs, its not how you feel. Get a fucking clue you deluded imbecile.

The cry of the aging incel who cant get laid.

Not a woman, a man pretending to be a woman. Identifying as female has as much biological reality as identifying as a dog and pretending it does is just a childish agic thinking delusion of which most sane adults want no part.

Covid is an odd virus. It was lethal to a fraction of a percent of the population, nasty to a couple of percent and no worse than a cold or even symptomless to everyone else. I dont personaly know anyone affected by it so if I lived in some idiocy bubble like these people I could well assume it was a hoax.