The evidence is that they are refining uranium far more than is needed for anything other than nukes.

There are two possibilities: 1) they want to eventually build nukes after building the missile range to hold off the US, or 2) They are getting as close to building a nuke as possible without actually building one.

Of course, it's more complicated because Iran is not monolithic. The religious leader seemed to not want nukes (for the time being), while the IRGC leadership seemed to want to really build them.

Do they? Have you seen the polling?

I have a counter-hypothesis: most Russians are not happy with everything Putin has done, but they are very concerned about who will come after. Nothing good.

Not really an issue because you're picking the best of the best so it evens out. Again if you look at the actual win rates over and over again you see trans women getting their clocks cleaned if they've been on the hormones.

There is one exception which is golf because women's hips are built differently and they can't put as much power into the swings. That's one that I don't know about and it would need more study. Ultimately I would leave it up to the sports bodies to decide. In other words experts in the sport instead of me as somebody who just can look at win loss rates.

The real problem with trans women in sports is that it triggers a knee jerk reaction. There's no getting around that. Also there were two extremely high profile cases where trans women were allowed to compete way way too soon. They were stripped of their titles but nobody remembers that.

Or you didn't understand what you read.

There are bodybuilding competitions that are completely natural. They aren't on the honor system.

There is a well-known and well-established process to catch people who are doping. It works. It's not just random tests there's more to it and if you want to know you can look it up from the documents used by the no doping bodybuilders.

If you apply that exact process to places where doping is allowed you can easily use it to catch too much doping.

This is what I mean when I say having it out in the open makes it safer.

Sports fans want athletes who dope. That's because they want athletes who can do super cool things that they could never imagine doing back in high school and you don't get that way without doping.

So right now the system we have works by setting up testing that is easy to evade on purpose. But that's unsafe because of course it means people are going to push past the limits of safe doping. If instead you applied the lessons learned by the no dope bodybuilder competitions you could have the doping and keep it safe.

It would marginally reduce the really crazy impressive feats of strength and speed though which might effect people's enjoyment and reduce ratings and profitability and we can't have that.

Cell towers. I just googled it. That's how it works today. Starlink will probably be faster overall with bandwidth but with a bit more latency.

It's a nice puff piece but I doubt it's more than 30 or 50 million a year. That would be a lot of money to you and me but with the cost of keeping those satellites maintained it's not really going to be enough. Starlink is running up against the problem of addressable market. There's only so many potential customers who don't have access to wired internet and can afford internet. Planes are certainly one of those. But starlink absolutely has competition here.

One of the Nordic companies just stopped in American company from buying into their tech sector. Europe no longer trusts America enough to let them buy into things like this. Their governments will just block it.

Elon Musk was already a national security risk when he interfered with the Ukraine war. Remember Europe needs Ukraine to be independent and beholden to the rest of Europe because they need Ukraine's grain because climate change is fucking shit up no matter what your asshole crazy uncle says.

So I predict this will go fucking nowhere no matter how big the bribes are. And the bribes will be very large. But we are starting to get to the point where the failing empire that is America is going to have to start doing expansionism in order to loot other countries and fill its coffers just like every other failing empire. And that will start with Canada and South America but it will eventually have to include the rest of the world because that's just how failing empires work. Europe is going to start getting ready for that.

"Fundamental principle" doesn't mean "evidence steadily emerging over time that this isn't exactly correct."

Indeed.

A shame we can't deport this illegal immigrant https://www.theguardian.com/te...

I remember reading about the fight between polished aluminum planes and painted. The paint adds weight, and thus increases fuel consumption, but the paint lowers maintenance costs.
A dirty airplane can absolutely burn a noticeably larger amount of fuel.
A car is operating at much lower speeds, generally, so the effect is probably much less.

38 to 53 micrometers.

Apparently it's called a boundary layer.

The summary calls it a "trend," which is different than the headline of "fundamental principle overturned." The summary is incoherent.

Kinda sounds like the online businesses need to start being financial contributors to ensure they are not relying on flawed software.

Besides, bugs are finite.

The whole summary is filled with nonsense. We've known that surface roughness can reduce drag for some time. The could be drastically shorted and be more accurate, something like this:

The picture of their wind tunnel is pretty great. They use magnetism to suspend the object, so the supports don't distort the airflow.

Trump gave them nukes by tearing up the JCPOA agreement in 2018. https://trumpwhitehouse.archiv...