There isn’t really a beyond past the beyond, so to speak. The universe by definition encompasses all space, time, matter, and energy. So by that definition, there is nothing at all “outside” the universe. We think of it as an expanding bubble for thought experiment reasons but that’s not really what it is.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus from VEEP “What the Fuck” dot gif.

You might have a different perspective if you're quadriplegic.

Not that it really protects Oceangate in reality, but the release they signed pretty clearly stated that they could become fish chum doing this.

It’s also that the byproducts of the reaction are much different. The byproducts of fission are a bunch of relatively long half-life radioactive materials. The byproducts of fusion are plain old helium-4 (which is not dangerous and has plenty of industrial uses) and free neutrons that only last about 15 minutes. …

The issue is that there’s so few of these vehicles and they’re all such highly built with significant differences in max tolerances, regulations doesn’t exist for them... And there’s also already ratings for submersibles capable of reaching various depths. Titan was not one of them for reaching the titanic depth.

It was obviously heavily implied that it was safe,... Do you honestly think that they would get many takers if they advertised “many experienced submariners have told me that this sub is definitely a death trap”?

Ironically, the answer to your last sentence is in your first sentence!

This presupposes that one has thought about alpaca sex.

Like all AI models, to run something like say.....ChatGPT requires an absolutely enormous amount of memory and storage space just to hold the models.

To say “AI models will finally run locally instead of in the cloud” is a bit misleading.  Sure...they will have something that runs locally.  It’s still going to be a…

Fun fact, even TikTok is banned in China, have always been banned.

The Internet, famously, was designed to avoid single point of failure problems. Somebody is unclear on the concept. Redundancy, at least at a moderate level, should have been easy to provide in this instance.

I’d like to watch this show, and would - if it was on one of the streaming services I already pay for.

True, though I was also thinking this as well:

Doesn’t the Jones Act only apply to ships that go between US ports? These foreign ships were involved in international trade.

Norfolk Southern and Boeing must be grateful for the distraction.

Sisko is absolutely a black man in all that means. Don’t take that away from Sisko or Brooks or Benny.

It’s absolutely praiseworthy. If Picard had been in charge of DS9, the Federation would have lost the Dominion War.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone call Sisko an unhinged madman, and while Sisko may be African American his character has always seemed to me to be race neutral, like make Sisko a bald white guy and what exactly about his character would have to change? In my opinion, nothing. "In the Pale Moonlight" deserves all…