The rest of us will have to wait to see how he turns out. All the worst people in history started out as babies (or at least that’s the rumor going around).

You are correct, Schrodinger’s Cat (or really the quantum mechanics underlying the metaphor) means that both states exist simultaneously in super-position. It would be more accurate to describe it as a third state in a binary. The cat isn’t both dead and alive, it is half-dead and half-alive, or really in more of a…

The real travesty is that they want a South Pole Penguin to represent Santa who is from the North Pole. My vote is for the Artic Stoat:

The Presidency is the only elected office that is exempt from conflict of interest laws and regulations. Originally, the vast scope of the Presidency meant that nearly everything the President did could have been interpreted as a conflict of interest.

Every event there could be the “last race ever”. They have confirmed dates for next year and I’m signed up for the fourth annual “last race ever”.

Normally, we’d be get an idea from his past tax returns but it looks like it might take a FoIA request after he is President to pry them out of his tiny orange hands.

I don’t think it being a law would stop him anyway. I think he’s got more of the Nixon approach to laws and the presidency: “When the President does it, it is not illegal”.

It is indeed. Originally, the President had far fewer powers and the job encompassed such a broad range of topics that it was deemed impossible to avoid conflicts of interest (basically anything the President did would effect his holdings, so everything could be seen as a conflict).

The blind trust thing isn’t actually a law, it is just a tradition. Trump doesn’t have to use a blind trust and the President is immune from ‘conflict of interest’ rules. As long as he doesn’t accept an outright bribe, he can do just about anything. All the other Presidents followed the precedent out of respect for…

She sent it in an email.

I like the way you think, you can have a spot in my O’neil cylinder (colony). And I promise it’ll be on one of the good ones and won’t be used in a “colony drop”.

Asteroids are best for the heavy elements, especially metals. Iron, Nickel, Palladium, Iridium, Platinum, and Gold those types of elements are easy and abundant. Rare Earth’s aren’t any more abundant in asteroids than Earth’s crust (the heavy stuff sank deep into the Earth’s interior and were only replenished from…

We only do it for people who can pay for it. Need is irrelevant without funds, and we do have commercial scale desalination plants in places like Australia, Spain, and Israel.

Asteroid mining for Lithium sounds like a bad idea (it is too cheap and abundant on Earth to ever be worth harvesting from asteroids). Of course, if you are building stuff in space, using local materials is always cheaper.

We won’t be able to fuse He, requires much higher temperatures than H (and if we did, we’d use the triple alpha process which yields Carbon). Lithium is used as a fusion precursor (fuel) in hydrogen bombs. Lithium as degrades at high temperatures, which is the main reason it is less abundant than it would otherwise…

If lithium prices go high enough, we can obtain it from sea water and mundane mineral deposits. Lithium is relatively common, just not in high concentrations or economically viable forms.

Then why did the Republican Party nominate him to be their candidate? He is literally representing the Republican Party.

That’s pretty good braking data, for most cars the limiting factor are the tires. Recent use of “low rolling resistance” tires as standard equipment has resulted in an increase in stopping distances. With my sticky tires I can stop from 60mph in under 100' (I’ve also recorded 1.4g’s of lateral acceleration, so we…

Your dealership should refill it everytime they inspect the muffler bearings. Both are specialty jobs that require special certifications.

I see the “work” the local trucks do. They park in the high school parking lot (poorly), and in front of the suburban McMansions. You would decry their detestable disuse as much as I do if you were here.