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Other than 'incels', who else might be interested in this thought experiment ? IOW, of what use are the results ?

The first result I came across was the 'record' spending in the US of 1.4 Billion in 2023, which is still behind what China spends. The worldwide total seems to be 6 to 7 Billion. Compare that with the world's energy costs which Swansont provided of 30 Trillion. Or the current investment into AI, of approx. 500 Billion, mostly going to the current US Administrations Tech Billionaire buddies. I guess AI investments help to enrich Trump's buddies and brainwash the populace with group-think, while investing in fusion research helps keep Physicist/Engineers employed ( DOGE can't have that ) and the prospect of unlimited clean energy for the world.

The US seems to have no problem partnering with industry to announce half Trillion dollar investments into AI research ( where the 'I' is dubious at best ), or the engineering of 5 nanometer IC foundries to facilitate the AI 'revolution'.. I wonder how much more beneficial fusion reactor research would be, as currently Chinese research is starting to leave us behind, and fusion mitigates ( or eliminates ) some of the risks of fission reactors. As Swansont says, a lot of it has to do with perception. AI is the new cool kid at the school, and gets all the attention ( just what we need, something to do our group-thinking for us ), but imagine the possibilities for humanity, of harnessing the power of the Sun, here on Earth.

They do, however, have a large American military base, located in Greenland, which, considering Greenland's population and defensive capabilities, is more than adequate/capable of taking over the country. That idiot in charge of the US has already authorized planning for the invasion of the Panama Canal, yet people are still giving that lunatic the benefit of the doubt.

J Trudeau's faults are far from silly mistakes. We could start with his election promises of proportional representative Government, until he won a majority and decided it wasn't in his party's best interest anymore; until the later election when they were a minority and bought another party's support ( NDP ) with undelivered promises, to stay in power well past his best before date. Or the great show he made of cancelling 'Harper's' F-35 program ( which the previous Liberal Government had locked us into ) as being too expensive, then, 14 years later after buying Junk from Australia to keep our planes from falling out of the sky, purchasing more of them then Harper intended to; they must have gone on sale. Or his virtue signaling on race and gender, before stories about him in blackface and groping young women surfaced, and the appalling way he treated women in his party/cabinet. Or his 'flexible' ethics when dealing with Liberal donating firms doing illegal business in other countries. And how about the Carbon Tax/Rebate which does absolutely nothing for the environment ? I would not mind if he took the tax dollars and invested them in infrastructure so I could charge an EV along the highways, but a wealth redistribution scam intended to buy votes is useless in combatting climate change. ( need I go on ? ) Then maybe he should stick to being a banker. Politicians have to know how people work, because they represent all their constituents. They don't represent their constituent's money. The problem with putting elitists in power, who think that they are good at everything , is that you end up with 'business men' like D Trump, who are good at ripping people off, and think that policy is done by extortion. To them, the 'deal' is more important than how it affects the people. Then again, I am judging him on very little information. He hasn't gone into full campaign mode yet, so I can't judge him on election promises, or their eventual delivery. I would think none of us know how well either M Carney or P Poilievre will serve. You cast your vote and you take your chances. Just because I dislike P Poilievre does not mean I will forgive J Trudeau's faults, nor those of his advisors, like Freeland and Carney. And speaking of 'elitists' ... Is that you, Hillary ? 😄

The KM3NeT group has found evidence for high enough energy Neutrinos that may provide evidence of primordial Black Hole final evaporation. Black Holes of tens to hundreds of thousand pounds cannot be formed by stellar collapse and may have been formed shortly after the Big Bang event. If found in large numbers, such neutrinos may indicate large numbers of primordial Black Holes; perhaps enough to account for Dark Matter effects. See here for the 'Pop-Sci', quick and dirty explanation Evidence for Stephen Hawking's unproven black hole theory may have just been found — at the bottom of the sea See here for a more detailed analysis Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT | Nature

M Carny might have financial acumen, however he's seen as a J Trudeau policy advisor, much the same as was held against C Freeland in her contest against M carney. He will inherit J Trudeau's faults. And business oriented people don't seem to make good leaders ( D Trump, E Musk, etc. ) Then again, P Poilievre comes across as a little too 'slick', like a lawyer or used car salesman; you know he doesn't have YOUR best interests at heart. And don't even get me started on the NDP. Election is a toss-up. ( but I wish P McCay would run again )

I would like to point out to @Sensei that if the authorities suspect you of wrongdoing such that they want to read your end-to-end encrypted correspondence, then they have justification to obtain a warrant to seize your phone. Once they have that, they can gain access to your encrypted data.

Chemical compounds can be separated into 'functunal' groups. There are acids, a sour, easily wetted substance, readily soluable in water, with an acrid smell that irritates mucous membranes, and turn litmus indicator red. These react with bases, bitter, slippery and also water soluable, but turn litmus blue. In modern chemistry, their solutions decompose to OH- ions and H+ ions; the log scale of their ratio gives the pH value you may have heard of. Two other groups are oxidizers and reducers, which also react with each other, like the previously mentioned hydrazine ( reducer ) and nitric acid ( oxidizer and an acid ) used by the Germans as propellant for their WW2 rockets. The reaction of these groups, redox reactions, are used to produce chemical energy. Think of the lead and acid in your car battery, the carbon and oxygen of a fire, or the oxygen and hydrogen that produces the thrust of a modern orbital rocket. One of the elements in the compound provides a lower energy state for one or more electrons of the other element's higher state, and this is released as useable energy. There are other groupings that help distinguish, such as inert, or noble gases, that don't react with others, metals which have a conduction band of electrons above the valence band ( where chemical bonds are made ) and can conduct electricity and orient into magnetic domains, and even one group you may be hearing about in the news, as the American President is extorting Ukraine for its valuable rare earth elements, Such groupings of similar properties help identify what you are dealing with, or give direction for further testing that will.

The following article reflects my opinions We're the villains now — and it’s about to get worse | Opinion

This 'genius', the head of DOGE, responsible for finding and eliminating Government waste, decided it was financially prudent to put a Tesla roadster into orbit. The idiocy and ego of the 'first buddy' is only matched by the American President. Oh, and the House/Senate Republican ass-kissers, voters who voted Republican and Democrats who didn't bother to vote; Did I miss anyone ? ( Wow ! That's a lot of idiots )

I don't know ... Many Republicans are troubled by his labelling of the Ukrainian President an unelected dictator, and snuggling up to the Russian President. They are just too scared to voice their opinions because Trump and Musk will make sure they will not get re-elected.

I'm not a chemist but a physicist. I last studied Chemistry in 76-77, my last year of high school, but I've been working as a 'chemist' for 38 years. ( see ? It's not that difficult ) Keep in mind that chemical reactions involve electron jumps, sharing and transfers. They, in no way, alter the nucleus of the atoms involved; the number of protons and neutrons, and elemental atomic number stay the same. That means all the reagents must be present in the products. This gives clues for analyzing the products of a given reaction. ( and means there is no such thing as 'alchemy' )

Eh ??? Blind people are not self-aware ???

Even if Canada was annexed as one state, and given the same representation as othe states in the House, Senate and Electoral College, the Republicans would never get elected again. As it is right now, once the vindictive idiotic President is gone, even the scared self-serving Republicans who put their election chances above the good of the country, will reverse the agenda of the new orange Hitler. Ronald Reagan isn't just turning over in his grave; he's doing cartwheels.

Curved space-time has energy. Gravitational energy gravitates. Not that I agree with any of the following ...

To be fair, that was an old 'Dave Allan at Large' joke. He did a lot of Religion jokes.

He has a 'concept' of a plan ...

The Pope is discussing the Christian belief of God with a non-believer. After several hours of the Pope trying to convince the non-believer of God's existence, the exasperated Pope tells the non-believer "I give up. You are like a blindfolded man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat, that isn't there. How can I make you see ?" The non-believer respectfully replies "We are very much alike, your excellency. You are also like a blindfolded man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat, that isn't there. The only difference is you've found it."

F Faggin was an excellent engineer in the early semiconductor days, when engineering problems were actually physics problems. He's had a distinguished career at Fairchild, Intel, Zilog and Synaptics, so I would not dismiss anything he says without consideration. However ... If your body and brain are just 'the drone' and sense-of-self and consciousness are manifestations of a quantum field, why do some brain injuries impair your sense-of-self ? Why do you lose consciousness from a blow to the head ? How are injuries to the body affecting the quantum field ?

Both, the 'wanna be Emperor' and his 'first Buddy', have no clothes. And all the Republicans are afraid to tell them. That's another big problem ... People who don't understand, or willingly choose to ignore history, are always surprised when the same shit happens again. And not 90 years ago with the NAZIs and Fascists, but as recent as 2016-2020.

It cannot simply be the amount of information, but the mind-set of people, and what the consider important or worry about. There are more online articles right now about T Kelce's brother being upset that people are accusing him of supporting the Eagles over the Chiefs than stories about a Russian sympathizer, Syrian dictator friendly and Snowden treason supporting ex Democrat , T Gabbard, being sworn in as Trump's choice for Director of National Intelligence. ( with the only Republican to shoe any hint of a backbone being M McConnell; really ? )

The biggest problem, as I see it, is that while you guys ( CharonY, TheVat, Exchemist and INow ) are what I consider critical thinkers, a large swath of the American population is not. The majority have become the 'useful idiots' of this group trying to dismantle American democracy. Most Americans don't consider how tariffs will affect their costs or employment. They are told they are the greatest thing, and they believe it. They are told immigrants are their problem, not thinking about how many jobs immigrants ( and not Americans ) are willing to do, and how the economy and their comfort will be affected. They are told other people are taking unfair advantage of them, and the right to do so should be taken from them; they don't think and realize that the group preaching this is actually targeting them. And not just Americans. I have arguments most evenings, and even at work with otherwise intelligent people, Canadians who buy into this crap. I can somewhat understand how this could happen a century ago, where a few influential people could sway people's minds, but I cannot understand how people are so easily swayed today given the wealth of information sources and viewpoints available.

Next he'll be telling us DEI causes plane crashes. Oh, wait ... Another uninformed guy already did.

Did not know that; then again, they rotate those positions fairly quickly. He just became Prime Minister of Poland in '23. Doing a much better job than some of those other Eastern European leaders ( like V Orban, or R Fico ).