AI Overview
The most recent probe to successfully land on Venus was part of the Vega 2 mission in 1985. The Vega 2 lander, along with a lander from Vega 1, successfully landed on Venus's surface on June 15, 1985
This.
Having been to quite a number of places, including some that are usually not deemed beacons of liberty and democracy, I can safely say that US border officials are easily the most arrogant, condescending, dismissive and generally unpleasant lot. And it doesn't strike me as some clever psychological strategy designed to improve security either, they genuinely seem to think of foreigners coming in to their country as primitive provincial supplicants, about to be graciously allowed a glimpse onto The Light.
Here's what an Isar Aerospace spokesperson said way before launch (auto-translated)
According to Isar Aerospace, the goal of the test flight is to gather as much data and experience as possible. "The rocket is allowed to explode; that's even likely during the test flight," a spokeswoman said in advance. "Even 30 seconds would be a major success." It would be the first flight for the start-up company.
What is that? In the broadest sense of the term, everyone is a knowledge worker.
Knowledge regurgitation will become a domain of "AI", if it isn't already. When knowledge generation becomes a domain of AI, all bets are off. Until then, the bigger danger is that various AI models, running out of actual knowledge to absorb, will mere dilute and poison the pool by referencing each other.
We don't even know how much waste, especially radioactive waste, it will produce until we build some useful prototypes.
I have no issues with fission technology, but we do know, even now, that fusion would only produce relatively small, calculable quantities of low-grade, fast decaying material and would be inherently safe from any runaway effects. Fuel would be nearly unlimited and universally available.
Money is being splurged, in comparatively obscene quantities, on much less promising things.
"TrapC, a fork of the C language,"
There's a lot more to a C(++) compiler and its surrounding ecosystem than just the paradigm of "memory safety".
Resources would be better allocated to scaling up things that work now and at known and reasonable cost:
There is absolutely no reason both things can't be done at the same time. The money spent on fusion research is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. The ultimate vision should be energy that is available in abundance and almost too cheap to meter, rather than just "reasonable".
"Think of it, magnets," Trump said. "Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets. Why didn't they use John Deere? Why didn't they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere."
This has got to be code of some kind. Something like the lingo in Oceans 11, only less refined.
We won't have proven energy gain from magnetic confinement fusion until ITER is built, but Trump will likely cancel it since Musk hates it.
Trump can wreak a lot of havoc, to be sure, but luckily ITER may not be important enough for him to bully others into exiting as well, even if he cuts funding to the US share.
to boil water, without, well, melting it
And you got that wrong, too.
and, like all engineering, is hard to do well.
Imho, software engineering still eludes all management, planning and steering techniques more by an order of magnitude than other kinds of engineering.
Play Rogue, visit exotic locations, meet strange creatures and kill them.
