Cool. Just popped into my head when I read your comment. I almost didn't post it. Glad you appreciated it.

However fleeting the moments, with enough of them, the faith can seem continuous.

Can this be washed?

Being vindictive at the expense of your child seems like bad parenting. So fuck you instead.

Not true. The law is designed to maintain an orderly society. Punishment is a disincentive, but not the only part of it. Rehabilitation and/or removal from society to prevent recurrence is also part of it.

This^

"had a secret..."

Wifi6? Because that's faster unless you got that 10gig stuff.

They don't, it's just expensive to replace countertops in an apartment as a tennant. And if you bought a house, you are so far in debt, you'd have to do it yourself.

It's also filthy. The reflection is one part of it. OP doesn't clean for company.

JWST is an exception to my statement. Large Hadron Collider is only serving to confirm what is already "known", and improving the accuracy of existing models. It's not a new field, they aren't creating new elements or discovering new particles since the Higgs boson, and that was already effectively known.

There are still a lot of unknowns in high energy physics, but few projects related to that research. With enough energy, we could separate elements from trash, to recycle perfectly with something like magnetic resonance. But it's not cost effective because of the energy involved. Nobody is looking at it.

Nobody is looking at the deep sea except as a rich person's hobby. We aren't devoting a lot of effort to understand how some animals perceive things we cannot. Every time we do, it becomes news and people think it's some kind of indication we know a lot about it. We really don't, and we are losing species faster than we can study them.

We can print vaccines now, but this was only funded because it was a necessity. Now that covid is effectively solved it's not cost effective to lose your lifetime medicine revenue to actually solve long term illnesses. So it doesn't get funded.

Material properties aren't being researched much. For instance there was talk of holographic storage in crystals for a while but it never became a product because small improvements in current tech was easier to sustain.

Also where the hell is my flying car? We haven't even bent space yet. We aren't getting FTL before we do the fundamental research on that.

Honestly we stopped doing curiosity based research after that. Everything is incremental and derivative now. But the iterations are fast at least.

Normally people refer to spacecrafts as built or created, rather than acquired. Unless maybe there's a NASA surplus store I don't know about.

When the synthetic neurons stop working. This is assuming you define the individual by the continuity of their consciousness rather than some arbitrary substrate like neurons, since they get replaced over time with biological ones already.

I was implying the AI is more benevolent than its owners.

Meta tech is, the company is doing shitty stuff.

Thanks!

I've never heard of this before. Do the girdle and irongrippers have any other unique characteristics? Can ordinary humans wear them? Can I build my own?

I'm surprised they were able to pick it up for the photos. Archaeologists are good people.

The most far-fetched scene from "Enemy of the State" is plausible now?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc3kY