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When Cad & AutoCad came out the licensing for using them was pretty restricted but I got to fool with them a bit at an architect friend's house. It was pretty amazing for the time but I doubt many millennials would be impressed.

This actually made me burst out laughing. How can you tell there is any difference if you don't compare them?

The first time I can remember one side actually destroying something the other side built was when Reagan took off the solar panels Carter had installed at the White House, although it probably has happened before. Since then, both have done it.

One can only hope. I am not that optimistic but we shall see. I might vote for whoever promises to raze the $200 million ballroom Mr Trump wants to add on to the White House..

Unfortunately, when combined with Presidential pardon power, those subordinates DO have criminal immunity in actual practice.

I wasn't commenting on your usage of epoch vs eon, just pointing out that it should be obvious why the earth hasn't at any time since then looked like it did during the Hadean without saying it.

It's obvious Mr Trump "listens" to the courts since he has something to say about virtually every ruling. What he won't do is follow a court order if it doesn't suit him. I guess SCOTUS could send Ketanji Brown Jackson to bust the President. 🤪

It seems to me that if a circle could actually reach r=0 it would cease being a circle, meaning that there will always be space when trying to fill any space with smaller circles regardless of their size. Once r=0 it becomes a point, as stated above, (unless one wants to redefine what a circle is) and any space will be filled by an infinite number of points...

Are you referring to the Hadean Eon, at the end of which is, when the Earth first began to solidify?

Something I find interesting is that Trump chose a guy, who thinks launching a brand new car into space is a worthwhile use of resources, to cut waste and inefficiency...

We have 3d metal printers now. My experience with those printers is pretty limited but the parts seem to mostly be ok but not nearly robust as the same thing cast or machined.

Do they eat sheep in heaven and if they do is that cannibalism?

When we were kids, one of my uncle's wooden porch caught on fire from the afternoon sun shining through a glass gallon jug full of water. Fortunately, it was put out before anything worse than leaving some charred wood and paint behind.

"Fusion will be commercially viable within a decade". I have been hearing this for at least the 50+ years I have known anything about the subject. =++

I would say not much, judging by how often seemingly a large plurality (if not most) of them violate the a host of the tenets of their faiths on a regular basis right now...

Well, I would believe Mr Ritter before I would believe virtually any of the other commentators I have heard pontificating on the matter and having been a UN inspector, probably has as good information as any of them He was spot on about WMD's in Iraq...

I am not even Canadian and I like both, although I would say some guy named Bobrovsky was a bigger impediment to a team from Canada ever winning the Stanley Cup again than Mr. Marchand. In about 60 years of making maple syrup, I have consumed it in every form I am familiar with and on/in many different foods. The bad thing is that it has made me a syrup snob and I won't eat Log Cabin or Mrs Butterworths on my pancakes, substituting honey or jam if real maple syrup is unavailable.

Well, after a couple weeks DPG seems to be basically the same as propylene glycol. The humidity measurements have been within about 2% of expectations (just under 70%) and well within the recommended 65-75%.

It could be if terms like "price gouging" and "unacceptable profit margin" were well defined and discouraged but that is regulation, anathema to the capitalist who will want to squeeze every dime they can from any transaction.

or survive being smashed into each other precisely enough to guarantee not breaking up

Not sure why it is necessary to bypass shaded cells. Unless they are in nearly nighttime like darkness, it seems to me, the shaded cells would still be adding energy to the system albeit at a significantly reduced efficiency

grrr

Seems to me, some people are made very happy by being unsafe. Skydiving, auto racing and bicycle dual slalom immediately come to mind.

AFAIK nobody has ever made hydrogen without putting more energy into the process than you get from burning the hydrogen produced. If you are trying to do it in something like a car this is a really big deal and not going to be easily overcome since the extra energy has to come from somewhere. On a grid, however, sources that sometimes can produce more energy than required may use the excess to make hydrogen for backup or other purposes. This is about as close as we get to practical perpetual motion ATM.

I don't care anything about the pope other than how he tries to push church teachings into laws around the world, hopefully minimally. The thing is, people on this forum (me included) seem to be in a relative minority when it comes to religion, so it seems to me, worthwhile to discuss the direction of around 1/5 of the world's population.