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I reject this point on at least two distinct fronts: 1) We CAN, and very often do, teach things to others about a topic even when lacking a full understanding ourselves. It happens all of the time and every day across the world. We teach the parts we DO understand even if our own understanding is limited... even at the university level this is true (case in point: we don't "fully understand" blackholes nor QM, either) 2) I posit that there is no such thing as "full understanding" and that there is ALWAYS room to learn more and grow and add to our existing knowledge. The wisest students recognize that the more they learn the more they realize they don't yet know. Our understanding is always fractional and provisional, so your threshold criteria for teaching here is itself impossible to achieve.

It’s a shame people still use gay as a slur or pejorative.

Velocities "bigger than c" are not possible based on current understanding and evidence. In fact, it's not even possible for a velocity to reach c if the object under discussion has non-zero mass (has any mass at all). If you must invent fictions regarding how the universe behaves in order to support your assertion, then perhaps it's time to acknowledge that your assertion is itself also fictional.

It is remarkable how very often the person working 3 or 4 jobs is making several commas less than folks who take an occasional business call while swinging at a golf ball or sipping cognac. Take two equally talented people and the one who works harder will tend to do better, but hard work is not the rocket ship to prosperity it once was. In fact, it seems the harder you work these days the less you get paid. We're racing to the bottom, and we're winning.

In many/most regions of the world these days...

I’d go so far as to say Putin actively wants extra attention on this, and that if it was in fact a missile strike that reminds folks that he has weapons available that mercenary groups like Wagner lack… it’s a reassertion of power… overdone and amplified precisely because he’s become so weak.

Likewise here. That’s why I included that point and you received it as I did.

Was your vehicle air conditioned? How many flights of stairs did you have to carry loads up when elevators were invariably broken or being serviced? Did you drive after Black Friday or the days after Amazon Prime Day? Curious to better understand how closely YOUR experience was aligned with the modern median experience today.

The leader of the air force, a General, who was close to Prigozhin was dismissed by Putin a day or 2 ago. There were 3 pilots on the plane, so incapacitated pilot isn't likely. Officials in the area confirmed that Prigozhin was on the manifest, and Wagner commanders confirmed he (and his top Lieutenant) were both on the plane that went down. According to PBS Newshour, an image posted by a pro-Wagner social media account showing burning wreckage, a partial tail number matching a jet previously used by Prigozhin could be seen. Certainly possible. Multiple individuals in the country have changed their names to Yevgeniy Prigozhin to help obfuscate his travels, and flight data suggests he boarded a private plane in Moscow Wednesday but the transponder was cut only minutes later. So... maybe? However, my take? He was on a plane and that plane got shot down by a missile (given the way it fell out of the sky suggested an explosion).

I’m shocked!!! … that it took this long to happen

One cannot be passionate if they can’t first survive. See also: Maslow

Not at all. You’re still learning the general gestalt here. Your brain moves quickly, is full of huge ideas, and you’re probably used to being the smartest person in the room. Here, however, it’s a big room with lots of very smart people and we’re all seeking to improve ourselves and each other with clarity, calmness, and patience. Ask more. Assert less. When others in the room know more than us, stop to watch and listen. Don’t lose your passion. Just slow it down a touch, and recall that answers often already exist and don’t need to be reinvented from whole cloth.

Ahh

Unless, of course, pursuing that path causes escalation with existing nuclear powers like China and NK who may actively seek to prevent that outcome from being reached.

This needs rebutting in its own thread

There's a kernel of a good idea here, though. We need to massively invest in global desalination and transport of the fresh water which results to address the real issues of drought and crop failure which will drive suffering, poverty, and mass migration for many generations to come. Desalination can help with a lot of the risks we and our children are about to face, but it requires huge investment and policy support to achieve.

Passionately

Thanks for clarifying, but everything is fleeting at some point… even life itself.

I’m often satisfied when my grocery bill,is below $100, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy about the transaction.

Okay, then… Find me a rational number for X that’s the correct answer to X =√2

It’s already in use to automate much of our transportation system, and has been for years.

You want to replace the entire transportation infrastructure with autonomous cars. Gonna need much more to go on than that if you want a full review if costs and risks and timelines.

What makes you think I can’t understand metaphor? That’s quite an extreme claim to make against a total stranger. Perhaps it’s ridiculous comments like these which are driving members to downvote so many of your posts.

You asked how it was possible. I gave like 6 different ways off the top of my head. I wasn’t advocating for any of them, just answering the question as you posed it.