Google's "quickest path" algorithm still needs work. A couple of years ago, I made the mistake of following Google Map's suggestion to divert onto a back road on a long road trip. It ended up taking two hours longer than if I had taken my usual route. Also, Google Map's estimates of how long it will take to get somewhere are wildly optimistic, to say the least. On a trip from Richmond, Virginia, to Nashville, TN, out of curiosity, I had it estimate how long it would take to walk that distance. It said I could do the trip in 5 days on foot, which means I would have to cover 130 miles a day on foot, for five days, with no rest days. Not even an Olympic athlete could do that!

That's the reason you are supposed to use a solar filter on the lens, which reduces the light intensity to levels that won't burn out anything.

I helped three nonprofit organizations, the Nashville Peace and Justice Center, TN Activists, and Earthmatters TN (an environmental organization), put on a free festival at a local park. We were in the path of totality, and the scattered clouds weren't in the way at totality. I got to see the corona.

My primary point was that, for over 100 years, it has been possible for a larger, nonlocal company to compete with local stores. Also, the practice of "drop-shipping", where one company takes orders and then pays other companies to actually ship the merchandise, has been around for decades. The companies that actually ship the merchandise are termed mail-order fulfillment companies, and I worked for one such company back in 1989.

If you have a mailing address, you have Amazon available. It is equivalent to the mail-order industry, which has been around since the 1880s.

Being able to walk around and look at the back of an object requires the renderer to know what the back of an object looks like. This is relatively easy if you are rendering a 3-D model, but doing this in the real world requires multiple cameras viewing the same object from all sides, and you will still have to extrapolate some data.

There are various levels of Aspergers Syndrome. I am self-classified as having Aspergers. My social-interaction skills and empathy are more effective in some circumstances than in others. It isn't an all-or-nothing situation.

For that matter, you could take out most hobby-scale helicopter drones with just the bubble gum, if you could aim it accurately enough. A wad of bubble gum hitting anywhere on the drone would probably unbalance it enough to bring it down, particularly if it hit a rotor.

In case you hadn't noticed, rain forests have lots of plants, busy doing photosynthesis. They are one of our major sources of oxygen.

Diamonds are hard but brittle. I have heard stories of people shattering diamonds by accidentally striking a ring against a hard surface. So, it wouldn't be particularly well-suited to windshields unless you made a thin layer of diamond over other materials.

Even among terminally-ill patients, you may have difficulties finding someone willing to die from acute radiation poisoning. From what I have read, it is a rather painful way to die.

Judging from the length of the flame being thrown in the demonstration video, I suspect a fair number of new owners will collect Darwin Awards. If the wind shifts, or you get splashback from a wall or earth bank ahead of you, you could easily set yourself on fire. If you then get an uncontrolled ignition of the fuel tank, it is definitely crispy critter time.

My father was a college teacher, my mother an elementary school teacher

A hobbiest who built his own working hydrogen-fusion reactor has given presentations at a couple of Phreaknics (an annual hacker convention in Nashville,TN, USA). One year he brought the reactor with him. Admittedly, he has not yet succeeded in generating more power than the reactor consumes, but neither have the large fusion experiments.

According to what I can find online, Georgia law forbids HAND-HELD use of a cell phone while driving, for whatever purpose, and texting while driving, whether the phone is hand-held or hands-free. HANDS-FREE use of a cell phone for talking or using the GPS app is legal. So, if your phone is in a mounting bracket, you can legally use it as a GPS while driving.