GreyEyedGhost

Sorry, didn’t notice the different user name.

If I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Once upon a time, that giant invented the wheel.

Fusion power isn’t commercially practical. We could make a working fusion plant right now. It would suck and provide almost no power, but we could make one. And the difference between the one we can make today that barely works and isn’t useful and one that would be useful will be some number of additional incremental steps between where we are today and when that would work. Which is exactly the point. And your the attitude of, well we aren’t using it today, so nothing has actually been done, is what I’m criticizing, so thanks for making the point even more obvious.

Fusion power is based on the aeolipile and work by Marie Curie. Just because you don’t see the all the incremental steps connecting those devices doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

The ideal technique for when they’re sweaty or sticky.

The ideal technique for when they’re itchy.

An order of magnitude more power in the same form factor in 30 years isn’t a tiny increment. It was certainly a number of tiny increments to get there. And for those big leaps you’re so desperately looking for, it isn’t one little group sitting down together thinking how they’re going to do something. There are decades of research building out a number of tiny discoveries, combined by a group at an opportune time to put it all together so everyone can talk about this momentous leap that they, from the outside perceived as something new that sprung out of nothing.

They made the decision that would save the most lives, which is their job. As for the people doing what’s best for society, that’s antithetical to American individualism, and your faith was proven wrong with both masks and toilet paper being bought for resale at predatory prices, or just to maintain personal supplies at the expense of everyone else.

And yet we have somehow gone from rechargeable phone batteries that were about 3 times bigger than the phone I’m typing this on and had a capacity of about 500 mAh to where we are now with the battery that powers my phone being some small part of it and having a capacity of 3000 mAh, with only two major technology changes on the way. Meanwhile, we’ve been using the same technology for over a decade and the capability keeps getting better. I wonder why that is?

Literally haven’t disagreed with a thing you said, yet here we are…

I’ve already explained everything above. If I cared, I might benupset for getting downvotes when I never once disagreed with anything anyone else said in this thread, instead I’m just disappointed and bemused in the complete lack of reading comprehension shown. I choose to believe that rather than it being malice and trolling, because it simply isn’t clever enough.

This will forever be Ted Cruz in my heart. It’s over 10 hours on repeat, which…sounds about right.

New concerns about burning up aluminum satellites in the upper atmosphere by the thousands a year having an impact on that. Everything old is new again.

Dismissing COVID vaccines as being ineffective is, sadly, political, and it wasn’t clear if you were talking about COVID antibodies or the different antibodies that caused this rare side effect.

There was some lack of clarity. Most people produced antibodies from this vaccine. Antibodies to COVID-19, that is. Some small portion produced antibodies to VITT(?) or whatever and only some of them experienced complications from that, which is what you were referring to. It took me a few minutes to understand what you were saying, too.

The motorbike can be fun, getting big jumps can be awesome, and you can explore caves easier. Other than that, yeah.

And when you say now, it’s been that way since about a year after the game was released.

Or build a whole fucking multi-lane highway there, but can’t be bothered to make it 6 feet wider so pedestrians and cyclists could use it, too.

How much extra do you think it would have cost to add an 6’ walkway to the bridge when it was built, merely as a future-proofing mechanism? When your first thought is, “No one would ever want to walk from one side to the other instead of using some kind of transportation,” these are the kind of results you get.

Care to make a remix of “7 Words You Can Never Say on TV” for blahaj? YOU might abhor all censorship, but your admins don’t, and I’m inclined to agree with them.