Smartphones have the functions of so many other gadgets these days.
(Apart from the phone and texting)
Presumably they would have to get the kid a scientific calculator, and some sort of GPS for navigation. And a kindle so they can read books, a MP3 players...

I think they are one of the first countries expected to disappear with rising ocean levels.

" #28: United Arab Emirates"

WTF? UAE isn't short of a bob or two. Especially if you count GDP per person, and its all oil money.

Sharks are also edible.

I thought they were potato chips.

What is the speed of the solar system (relative to the center of the galaxy) ?

"How would fusion power "burn the entire world down to the last cinder"? It wouldn't."

Wait a few billion years until the sun expands into a red giant.

I think the Americans with Disabilities Act, got defunded as part of the Big Beautiful Bill.

We only have a finite number of monkeys on Earth, and the rest of the monkeys are millions or billions of light years away, so its going to take an infinite time to hear from them.

And in related news, Iranian scientists studying fission yeast have suddenly stopped ageing.

If your Home is a 1 room apartment then fiber to the home becomes fiber to the room.

"including seven near-Earth asteroids, none of which pose any danger..."

If they've only just spotted them, how do they know they don't pose any danger? Have they worked out the orbits already?

Or you EV ends up as a pile of molten metal...

Especially when the temps are well over 300 degrees K

Robert Patrick wants his finger back.

I know a way to cut the carbon emmission by about 100%

Leave it in the ground