Black wax.

Seems odd that a Military Installation Development Authority would be authorizing data centers, but here's an article from the Salt Lake City Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com/news/po...

(Article is paywalled, but the first few paragraphs, which are free, gives some background).

The whole selling point of solid-electrolyte lithium batteries is that the don't burst into flames if used wrong.

Good.
Google should have been doing that anyway. They are plagiarizing the content for free; the least they could do is actually acknowledge where they got it from.

Pages can't open old Mac word processing documents from decades ago (anybody remember Clarisworks? MacWrite?)

LibreOffice can.

Or dump Microsoft and switch to LibreOffice.

They would be giant revenue sources... unless, of course, they are given tax breaks.

Not sure what you mean by "volunteered". SpaceX was paid to retrieve the astronauts, which they did as part of their contracted flights to the space station.

True.

SpaceX's recent successes tend to make people forget that the company started out with three failures in their first three attempts to launch their first rocket, the Falcon-1. (And, for that matter, SpaceX also had it's share of explosions on the pad during a static fire.)

Yeah: space is hard.

Ars Technica has an article discussing how this is a major setback in the NASA lunar plan: https://arstechnica.com/space/...

In fact, the Blue Moon lander is designed to launch on New Glenn. It's designed to fit the NG's 7-meter fairing.
  https://www.blueorigin.com/blu...

Right, these are rocket-powered drones.

That means their total flight time will be limited by the amount of fuel they start with, but it should be enough to hop around to multiple sites, including (I'll hope) sites too uneven to land a large lunar lander.

The answer is no, because anxiety and job insecurity is not a Culture Shift, it's already our culture.

More explicitly, they are names given to a proposed solution to the problem of discrepancies between models and measurements. Measurements show that objects in the universe move in a way that isn't fully accounted for by the gravity of all the things that we can see (that is, the stuff emitting or reflecting light), so the proposed explanation is that the discrepancy in motion is due to the gravity of things that isn't emitting or reflecting light.

This is a hypothesis. It fits the facts we have so far. We still have to find evidence that the hypothesis is correct, or that the hypothesis is wrong. That's how science is done. You come up with a hypothesis that fits the measurements you have, then you look for ways to see if the hypothesis is correct.

The geothermal plant already exists: https://www.globalelectricity....

Apparently, Microsoft was proposing to build the data center there and tap into the existing geothermal power, not build new geothermal power (the summary was a little confusing about that).