Imagine what it’s like to calibrate an instrument like that.

But why pick one pound? The are so many fun units to choose from, only some of which are conveniently sized. How about a stick 1 mile long, or a rock that weights 1 grain?

An atmosphere confirmed to contain atoms? As opposed to plasma or neutron pasta? Yeah, I guess that counts as an improvement.

But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.

Soo… nobody needed that tool any more? Did they ever though?

You forgot the trivial case of not building a bridge at all. Just go around the gap.

Air just gets in the way, in more than one way actually.

Memories of Morrowind…

If you can’t jump high enough, we can always give you a little boost using a high-energy electron beam from the synchrotron. Either that or the high-power UV laser. Up to you really.

To make it a bit easier to measure the difference, you could do this in free fall or a micro gravity environment.

Exactly. I get the feeling that China doesn’t really want to see any foreigners on their land either.

Speaking of immigration, China could mitigate that problem by letting lots of foreigners in. Doesn’t look like it’s going to happen though.

Didn’t even realize until you pointed it out. I did feel a bit happy while reading, so that checks out.

Then, I thought about the way America is sinking, and the power vacuum being left behind. Gotta say, I wasn’t quite so uplifted any more now that I remembered that China will be taking that role on the world stage. Maybe 100 years from now people will be watching Chinese movies and using Chinese loan words.

This one is a bit counterintuitive. My maths teacher explained it like this. Take a look at this graph. If you approach zero from the positive side, it looks like the line goes to infinity. If you approach zero from the negative side, it appears to go to negative infinity instead.

Is it both, is it zero, is it all the values? The canonical answer is “undefined”. The value of y at x=0 doesn’t have a meaningful answer.

First billion years free. After that it’s 17.99 per millennia.

These kinds of contradicitons exist in man made structures, such as laws, rules and regulations. In situations like that, a judge has to pick which rule to follow and which one to ignore. The first time that happens, it becomes the standard solution (precedent) for those kinds of problems.

Maybe the universe will crash due to division by zero, floating-point error, integer overflow and segmentation fault, all of them occurring simultaneously. The objects will experience infinite velocity and infinite forces, there will be rounding errors, the system will run out of RAM and storage space. The universal CPU will max out all threads, and run out of cooling capacity. The hardware catches fire, the entire universe immediately collapses into a singularity, resulting in a new big bang as the system reboots. Oh, and the log files are corrupted, so good luck troubleshooting that one.

It definitely would be a good idea to put some SIBs in every place that produces intermittent energy.

Also, energy intensive places might want to get batteries too. Let’s say you have an aluminiun factory, which obviously needs lots of energy 24/7. How about you use cheap (or even free) solar power when there’s oversupply to charge the batteries, and discharge them during the night.

What happened to the ice cream ball with a chocolate core hypothesis? I think it looks like it could be a huge ball of Viennetta.

Yikes!

Anyway, thanks for the clarification.

Next step in the playbook is to outlaw all the minor news outlets that do cover this stuff. Is trump already working on that?