Also the fact that so many ICE vehicles are several size too large SUVs and pickup trucks. That Expedition or Silverado weighs way more than my EV6, even though I'm lugging around a battery. People spouting this tire dust BS are probably not the ones driving Corollas or Civics.

Stuff falling in is really falling quite a long way. If its path doesn't intersect the event horizon, ie, it "misses" the black hole: it either smacks (really hard) into other stuff down there that's also not quite fallen in, or slingshots back out. The event horizon being comparatively small, a lot of stuff ends up either in a very hot accretion disk around the black hole, or being blown back out in jets or winds.

This is why black holes are the hearts of some of the most energetic astrophysical objects in the universe: powered by stuff almost falling in, and all that gravitational potential energy turning to kinetic energy turning to thermal energy.

The "new eyes" thing is why the membership rotates on a regular basis.

But now, if you were someone whose opinions might be valuable... why would you bother wasting any time contributing to the board, knowing the rug could get randomly pulled for no reason? So, no actually open "eyes" will end up on whatever might get recreated in its place. Wonder what might be the over/under on the number of Fox news talking heads on the new board?

However, the squadron of USN minesweepers stationed in the Gulf for this purpose were decommissioned shortly before the Special Military Operation started. Talk about good planning...

Maybe when you're sitting there on battery trying to do something?

Part of the interest in a lunar south pole location for the base is one could put the panels on a ridge which sees the sun the whole time. Of course, then they'd have to be rotating, more things to go wrong: but even just some spifft rotating ones would help a lot with the night-time problem.

Got to make sure to keep open the markets that mystery people in the administration have been scamming with insider trades.

heh. So the ATM will have to ask the age along with your PIN to comply. And, who is using the router, or smart plug, etc? These day's it's OS's all the way down to the turtles.

The Trump Random Tax generator, at this instant in time, says.... "25% tariff on all Koren products". By the time you read this it might be different. An EV, while certainly any EV specific taxes apply to it, gets at least the overall rate. Unless it's one of the products or companies to have suitably bribed our Dear Leader, in which case it would have an exemption. It would proably have to have an extra large bribe because EVs don't burn dinosaur juice, though, and those companies have paid a lot to keep their market share.

Then they'd have to admit their lies about who's actually paying for this tax.

That's actually something I've always wanted to be able to do with my robot vacuum. Not all the time, mind you, but it would be fun to drive around with a joystick on occasion, or use it to play with the cat. So I can understand the guy's original motivation :)

they're trying hard to get to the vii-th release, been stuck on vi for years.

To what extend do you consider the many hundreds of reactors operated by navies around the world "Small Modular Reactors"? I would agree that there aren't many civilian versions out there yet, but there's an awful lot of experience out there with the things in the "cost isn't really a priority" design space.

It's become even more obviously a scam when it received the support of the scammer-in-chief. With his crypto being so obviously a nice pathway for bribery, credibility of any crypto gets questioned. Which is more harmful considering that it was never more than a betting market in the first place. At least with gold you've got a lump of stuff most people consider valuable, rather than hoping that some small set of people with money to burn buy more of the same stuff you did being the only value proposition.

Actually, Postscript is a programming language which is designed to draw text and vector graphic images for printers: so more analogous to today's gcode than an image format. I've even seen someone write postscript to do a linear regression fit on the plot being printed. Why? Because it was possible :)