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Uranium isn't the issue. A long half-life means that it's only mildly radioactive. Prior to being irradiated in a reactor, fuel rods can be manually handled safely. The majority of…

> I was kinda wondering where they got the idea from :) Parts of the country have been using roundabouts in highway interchanges for years. Western Colorado has a number of them. T…

> However, it is going to be hard to leave the PNW because I love hiking and backpacking. I'd argue that the desert southwest is a great place for hiking though you obviously have …

Sure, ski towns have always been dependent on tourism. And the 5000 sq ft mountainside mansions have always been unaffordable for most people living there. But the difference is th…

> “There are a lot of cities asking themselves this question,” says Goodman. “Are we a city anymore or are we just Disneyland?” This really resonates with me. I grew up in a ski to…

> I would expect that this would potentially draw the ire of Google Chromebooks are pretty open. See official documentation at https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/H…

Roughly 40% of the United States is public land and there are national parks larger than some European contries. Sure, it's not freedom to roam, but you still have access to signif…

I'm curious, where are you seeing this? At least four people are dead and hundreds had their lives ruined in the aftermath. I'm struggling to think of a crime with a similar number…

Would they even notice it though? Normal bolides of similar energy happen fairly frequently (see https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fireball-and-bolide-reports for an example). And e…

There is an electrical variant of the effect, it just hasn't been well tested experimentally.

Right, but pairs of particles aren't relevant. The effect occurs for any particle that interacts electromagnetically. And the magnetic field is the curl of its potential.

The article's description of the Aharonov–Bohm effect seems kinda misleading to me. It's not that particles are being affected by a field that's not there, it's that the particles …

> So apparently the AI found some shortcut for doing the actual computational work. That is also surprising as weather is a chaotic system. Shortcuts should not exist. Why do you s…

No? I think it's rude to be excessively loud so I don't, especially not at night. I don't see this as really any different than "Does no one here cut in line?".

I think Hereditary would be a great movie if the ending were completely different. I was never sure exactly what was real and I really enjoyed that. Then that ending pops up like i…

This isn't new. The US has been regularly doing these kinds of tests since the 90s and two took place last year. I'd be surprised if this was a specific response to Russia instead …

>In general, why do individuals and companies appear (to an outsider) to have so much influence in the USA to 'press charges'? They don't. Individuals and companies cannot bring ch…

I mean sure. Cars, for example, are significantly more dangerous than airliners and people crash all the time. But if alien craft are as safe as cars then that just leads back to m…

So instead of thousands of craft flying daily over the US, there are potentially millions commuting past Earth? And those crashes still happen despite an abundance of help nearby?

I'm asking if alien craft are a safer method of transport than air liners. Alternatively, if we replaced air liners with these craft, would fewer people die? If they are safer then…

Commercial airlines apparently experience crashes at a rate of 6 per 100,000,000 flights. I wasn't able to find a figure from the testimony as to how many craft are claimed to have…

> Do you use functions? Unless you're using Haskell or something similar, mathematical functions and what most programming languages call "functions" are very different and are bet…

> Humans are overwhelmingly social creatures by nature and virtually every study of happiness shows a correlation to healthy relationships in your life. Do these studies actually s…

> Once you reconnect with nature, your immediate instinct is to reconnect with others. I have the complete opposite experience. I spend as much of my vacation time as possible hiki…