Airbus's fly-by-wire system meant that the position of the throttle lever indicated a falsehood as to the throttle setting.

Well, I always thought Algol68 should have had more penetration. People said it was too complicated, but they hadn't seen modern C++.

It's not that exotic. Lightning can jam radio networks, and some places it's not uncommon.

You're assuming it didn't quickly dry out. I've made bread that could sit around that long. But you wouldn't want to eat it without soaking it first (probably in soup).

Wireless has failure modes that wired communications don't. They probably can't avoid some of the failure modes, like jamming. And there are places where wireless just doesn't reach...which aren't the same as the places where wired can't reach. I used to live in a ... large gully or small canyon. Wired had no problem, but it was essentially radio dead.

The question is more "Will we be leading in anything by 2035?".

That we stopped leading by the end of the 21st century would just be normal. Leading countries don't remain leading forever. I'm not sure Britain managed to be the leading country for 150 years. In the 1800's it was contesting with France for the title, and by around 1950 the US was the acknowledged leader. So 1950-2100 would be about the same span of time.

The US probably is leading this week. But China has been making several recent announcements, and possibly when those get in the field (well, observable, they're claimed to already be in use) that will change.
OTOH...

Speculating about a rapidly changing field is always problematic.

IIUC (I'm no specialist in the field!!):

No, but one of the possible meanings of "dark matter" is "black holes created during the big bang". It's tricky to make it work, and it requires some adjustment in how stable black holes are, but it's possible. The problem is that it would require that they evaporate more quickly and quietly than theory says that they should.

Note that these would be relatively small black holes. Possibly the larger ones became the nuclei around which the first generation of stars collected.

Too bad they couldn't both lose. OTOH, Musk is as big a liar as Altman, so neither of their testimonies should be believed. Which make it hard to come to a just decision.

"drone"? What year are you talking about?

They weren't peaceful, but they were introverted. Now, as a matter of survival, they're doing their best to try to drag down everyone else.

So, yes, Damn Trump for provoking this.

That design assumed a dispersed network. The networks have gotten increasingly concentrated. If there's only one connection, you can't route around it.

OTOH, SpaceX might reap large increases in business, because they would be the only route that wasn't broken. (I don't think Iran has orbital capability.)

https://youtu.be/2WvoFOwv7z4?s...

You're assuming that everyone is one extreme or the other. And not only is this wrong, there aren't only two sides, no matter what the news says.

OTOH, Flock *seems* to be an example of the "benefits of the surveillance state". I.e., we only hear about the generally approved of uses. If you were to believe that those were the only uses, I'd think you a simpleton. And it's impossible for me to make a decision that they're a good thing without knowing what those other uses are.

26 atomic worth - assuming 14 kT each means 364 kT. This is 423 GWH of total boom. The Utah hyper data center is projected at 9 GW. 24 hours gives 216 GWH - Throw in full heat load for thermal generation based on light-water nuclear generation and you are likely adding over 600 GWH of heat load in total. It's not at crazy as it sounds. Meaning that the total load thermal load could well exceed that of 26 smallish nuclear weapons.

This does not count the massive firestorms associated with the bombs of course. But after a short while nothing would be left to burn anyway, so I think it's fair to neglect the firestorm in the thermal load calculation.