Data centers in space are more expensive than data centers on earth. There is no way to avoid that. It doesn't matter how much you like Elon, the data center in space will always be more expensive.

The only reason to have data centers in space is if you want to do processing in space, for lower latency or something similar. And in fact, that is what the government wants to do.

It's part of the Golden Dome anti-missile defense. The architects have decided it's important to process missile tracking data in space, rather than sending it down to earth for processing.

They have a whole network of things up there processing and communicationg.

I haven't looked much at the architecture, but I suspect it's kludgy, completely lacking elegance.

Black body radiation. The heat is emitted in the form of infrared light (and other wavelengths, but mostly infrared).

Most satellites need to be carefully engineered to maintain their temperature range without getting too hot or too cold.

Indeed, a reasonable hypothesis is that ribosome-type life evolved first, and the the DNA mechanism evolved later, pushing out all the ribosome-style life except the traces of it that remain in our cells.

Francis Crick calculated how long it would take for life to evolve from scratch, and concluded it would take longer than the earth has existed. In response, he developed the hypothesis of panspermia, that life evolved elsewhere and somehow landed here (maybe just a few cells on an astroid). I don't have the ability to check his math on that hypothesis, so I don't have an opinion either way.

An enzyme is just a biological macro-molecule that catalyzes reactions. It doesn't need to be a protein.

The innovation seems to be having built a long chain of DNA from scratch that won't self-destruct instantly when put into a lipid envelope.

Genesis 7:29:

Sometimes called the 11th commandment. It's not widely reported because nobody knew what it meant. Now we do.

Oh yeah, that reminds me why I like Bern.

It's important to distinguish, it may or may not benefit the country overall, but what matters is whether it benefits the person/people who decided to go to war. It's not always the same.

That's not a gendered problem. It's an uneducated problem.

Smile more. Only be positive, only say positive things. Learn to insult someone devastatingly while smiling and being positive.

And then management will listen to you.

Often it is.

Rolex watches are entirely made in Switzerland.

That is dumb, and you are dumb.

Women are perfectly capable of doing math.

War has always been a net negative on the economy overall, both in history and in the present.

War has in the past, and still does today, give local economic advantage to the conquerors.

Homage to hypocrisy.