Nowadays USA is very central alright, it is central in many fights, unfortunately it is fighting on the wrong side of things.

Just ask the most hated person in America what should be done and then do that. Or the opposite, doesn't matter, one way or another whatever the government will do will be the wrong thing.

any sort of transport, really, is clearly inbthe way of MAGA

Don't tell Trump about this, because the last time he heard about transgenic research, some mice had to be disposed of rather than used to research human related diseases.

right, a bargain in the same sense that buying something you didn't need and couldn't afford to spend any money on during a supposed sale ends up saving you 10%.. on an amount you shouldn't have spent... for a thing you didn't need.

The wonders, that modern technology brings to the forefront of human interactions, circular keys, what will they think of next? Could it be a bendy straw made of plastic dispensed directly from your phone, call it Buzz-sucker, what do you say, buddy?

Humanity has been fascinated with mechanical/electronic chess forever, Mechanical Turk comes to mind. It wasn't a video game at the time, it is arguably not a necessarily a video game but it is a video game also, after all, there is video, it's on a computer screen.

But the fascination with this game has pushed computer science forward since 1770.

Well, we all know that trump went through a lot with putin, this is just one more of these things. Estonians should just stop playing with WWIII, it's obvious who is on the wrong side here.

In Trump's voice:

All your base are belong to us - YOU ARE FIRED.

Someone set us up the bomb - It was the most magnificent bomb, everybody says we have the best bombs

What you say? - I must say. I always say it.

We have no chance to survive - Welcome to the race, Sleepy Joe.

How do you "whiten" this? (and I am aware this has nothing to do with India)

It's you, how are you gentleman
All your base are belong to us
You are on the way to destruction
All your base are belong to us
You are on the way to destruction
All your base are belong to us

Make it possible to survive and afford basic lifestyle and a few luxuries occasionally on a single income. Population problem solved, almost overnight.

Make it necessary to have 2 incomes in a family, and you get population rates dropping like they are today.

Same in any place, any country, not just Japan.

Maria Reiche studied the Nazca Lines for over half a century. She found that after accounting for precession many of the lines could be dated pretty closely. Alignments indicating the equinoxes seemed quite important, an emphasis found earlier at Chavin and later in the Inca as well. There are "chairs" carved into the bedrock scattered throughout the Andes, very narrow so the observer is constrained to one exact space. Stars of interest such as Sirius rise or set exactly at the valley between two mountains on the horizon (or at least they did around the year 1000). Astronomy has a very long history in the Andes.

Russia's Buran and China's unmanned Haoloong use the same form factor, because physics is the same no matter who's making the thing.

The Pentagram's space plane has been around for a while, first launched in 2010, before all the experienced engineers were replaced with cheap contractors.

You misspelled 'Space Farce'. So far the only thing I've seen from them is that they've made some contractors really rich, which I think was the whole goal.

Collecting large amounts data is actually much easier than using it and especially using it to some sort of an advantage, actually maybe this is where AI should be used to help people - to try and make sense of things.

It is easy to come up with an example where huge sets of data are collected and never put to any meaningful use that benefits anyone, just look at all of the economic data.