Does physics allow those things to be built in practicable terms? Even our houses are modified sticks (2x4's and plywood) and man made stones (bricks, concrete) today.

It seems to take a long time for complex life to appear, 3.5-3.8 billion years in our one example. A planet being stable for so long may be quite rare, especially if it takes a large satellite to stabilize the planet. Then most intelligent life here on Earth is not technical, with technical life taking 4.5 billion years to arise on our one example.
Unluckily we have so little data.

It's also been found that painting one blade black cuts down the number of bird strikes by a lot. https://www.ecoportal.net/en/p...
There is a problem with migrating bats that is easily solved by monitoring and occasionally turning the turbines off. You do lose a couple of percent of production.

Do you? Where I am, it is mostly hydro, which has been having problems due to drought. Wind means turning down the hydro and saving water when the wind blows.
California buys our hydro and NY buys Ontario's hydro. In both cases they can buy less. Plus a lot of natural gas plants can be throttled back when the wind is blowing, saving costs. Not to mention how batteries are getting cheaper.

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They likely already have them.

My local DEF CON group is composed mostly of active-duty military and defense contractors, many of whom have jobs that require TS/SCI and polygraph. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the discussions in the group revolve around getting CPEs and maintaining certifications.

This was a surprise to me when I started going to monthly meetings a couple of years ago, but in retrospect is probably more of the norm than an outlier: Hacking has gone from a niche subculture into a multi-billion dollar computer security industry, not just having to deal with 1980's cyberpunk threats like corporate espionage but a part of military doctrine for nation-states. It makes sense that the jobs, and the people who do them, followed those paths as well.

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Aryeh Goretsky

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

How many people watch the local news station on cable or YouTube? Those numbers have to be added to the over the air viewers. Here, where there's no reception or cable, I watch the local news on YouTube. Much rather watch it on a medium that I don't have to worry about going over the monthly quota.

At least in this part of Canada, where this story originates, search and rescue is all volunteer with government help for equipment and such.
Just read an article in a paper somewhat local to this story on the last weeks search and rescue missions. 6 IIRC, all easy trails with people slipping etc and getting injured and often having to be carried out on stretcher by the volunteers. The government does mostly pay for the ambulance that picks them up, last I saw, there was a $75 charge for the ambulance.

That's sex, not gender. And sex is not so simple either.

You studied language in biology? Perhaps the biology of ships and what makes them "she"

And yet now and again, stars do come close enough to be measured in AU's instead of light years. Couldn't find the last article I read, though this talks about it and kinda disproves one pass, https://www.sciencealert.com/d... and here's a more general article, https://www.astronomy.com/scie...
With stars, a close miss can still be bad and quite possibly when the solar system was young and still in its star forming nebula, close passes were common.

Monarchy vs Republic just describes the head of government, not the system. Shit, here we could get rid of the King, replace the Governor General with a President with exactly the same powers and bang, we've changed from monarchy to republic with almost no change in how government works, namely Parliament actually governs and consists of representatives of the people who voted them in.
Kim Jong Un is a weird case, officially a President of a republic but the Presidency is turning into a Monarchy. The worst type of Monarchy where the monarch exercises all power rather then being a figurehead.

It's what I was taught in school. Either Monarchy or Republic can be

Some can check multiple of the above like Saudi Arabia. There are grey areas like N. Korea where the presidency functions more like a monarchy.
Monarchy or Republic just describes the head of government, not the type.

Not in Canada, where it is part of sentencing. Often see stories where someone is put on the list for X years. In this case, if he got put on the list, he'll be taken off.

Sadly, hope is the right word.

Of course it is not useful. It all depends on who has the power. I have a King, Charles the III, King of Canada. In practice he has close to no power, simply the power to advise, warn, and counsel. Also kind of a referee. So yes there is a tendency to think republic bad, monarchy good, but that is a simplification. Trade our Governor General for a President with exactly the same powers and no difference besides now we're a republic instead of a monarchy.

True.

I've never thought of it as a republic until your comment, but as I was taught in school long ago, it is a binary, Monarchy or Republic, and the EU has a President, not a Monarch.
All governments have a tendency towards evolving towards totalitarianism, the trick is to control that tendency. In theory a democracy with involved voters can do that. The problem is the involved and knowledgeable voters, which there seems to be a shortage of.
What a democracy can do is change governments before they go to far towards totalitarianism. As the saying says, governments are like babies, they need their diapers changed otherwise they get too full of shit.