Yeah, it's called IntraModulation Distortion, caused by the interaction of multiple ultrasonic devices resonating.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-...

And how it supposedly penetrated Faraday cages in poured concrete walls in basement rooms (the original location it was reported).

Actually they did. 'Havana Syndrome' (which was actually encountered in several locations around the world including an executive conference center in (IIRC) Switzerland) appears to have been caused by the resonance of multiple ultrasonic devices interacting. It's called IntraModulation Distortion, and one of the most likely culprits is the anti-eavesdropping equipment which can broadcast ultrasonic signals at well over 120 decibels. This has been known since at least 2018 but spooks being spooks they prefer to believe they're under attack by some superspy agency than by their own poorly configured electronics.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-...

Now what this piece of expensive scrap metal that Fatherland Security just paid for is unknown. Probably an upgraded version of the ADE651.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

...if I've been in communication...

Didn't proofread.

He once said (paraphrased), "No matter how absurd I make the situations in Dilbert, no matter how far-fetched, I get people writing me to ask if they've been in communication with their co-irkers."

Know who else was hilarious? Bill Cosby, and he was also a shitbag. I've worked with actors and other artists, and it's absurdly common among the talented. (Also the not-so-talented, William Shatner was the biggest asshole I've ever dealt with.)

Considering the leadership of our government over the last quarter century, "insanity" seems the most likely route.

There are systems available to stabilize and/or boost commercial satellites which have expended their on-board fuel, but of course Congress would never allow NASA to use them since none of their REAL constituents in the MIC would make enough money. Besides, Hubble data insists that the universe is more than 6,000 years old so there's no real interest in Congress to maintain it in orbit.

If the grotesquely wealthy upper class which rules us really wanted to do something good for society they'd fund the mission themselves out of the change from their couch cushions, but by and large they're all just blah-blah-blah.

Indeed, and the purity of the CO2 used in this prototype system is exceptional. I've read elsewhere that the process for purification they developed is a novel technology which they will almost certainly use for this and other processes, and which will quickly spread throughout Chinese industry. That's apparently how Chinese industry works, one company develops something in a technology cluster, it spreads throughout that cluster, and then throughout the entire country. This author calls it an "open source economy".

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Economists and governments have known for centuries about Knowledge Spillover. This is what happens when we put large numbers of people and companies in the same geographic area, working in the same or adjacent industries. In these industrial clusters, innovation happens fast, because when one company does something that is revolutionary, the knowledge is quickly shared.

Silicon Valley is one of the best examples in the United States of this, where new technologies and applications are discovered every day, and companies are always suing each other over who really developed what. And it’s of course impossible to prevent customers from comparing what different suppliers are doing, or to stop employees from talking to their neighbors and friends, or quitting one company to start work at another and take his experience with him.

The same dynamics that built Silicon Valley were put into action here, but at orders of magnitude higher, and everywhere. When China was developing, just 30 years ago, their industrial planners built hundreds of clusters across China, in every single industry. These clusters share resources and logistics and supply chains, and universities were built to supply engineering and research talent.

Not coincidentally this was when much of Congress was replaced with lawyers employed by the financial industry. It's been downhill since then.

Of course, no one is pretending that it won't. There is one way to definitively figure out what works, that's to do it. While in the US that requires 10 years of committees, studies, VC soliciting, government subsidies and financial industry butt kissing in China they can say, "We've got this idea, and this is why we think we can make it work" and they're off to the races.

The groups "countries without any oil" and "countries with resources to work on new energy solutions" have four overlaps: Taiwan, Japan, South Korea (all in thrall to the US and Wall Street/banksters) and China. Of course the latter is where this (and most of the rest) research is being done.

It's unimpressive for an Amazon facility anyway, about 1/4 of one of their medium-sized Fulfillment Centers. Wonder if 229,000 sq ft will be worth installing solar on the roof, all of their FCs over a million square feet get them.

After 80 years computers may have arrived at the intelligence level of a cockroach now. That may sound like an insult, until you consider that it took Ma Nature over three billion years to get to that point.

Then your dog isn't too bright. Not to be mean, but some are smarter than others, just like every type of animal. I've had some very intelligent dogs who learn remarkable things, and others who were nice animals but of only average canine intelligence. Of course I could say the same thing about chickens, some are smarter than others.

On the other hand, it might be just an issue with the owner . . . :-)