What I didn’t see from skimming over the many (and many good) replies: does this guy know how to separate fantasy from reality, and properly recognize the two?

True. Instead of murky water, we now have a swamp filled with Cheez Whiz.

The bigger problem is reprisal. I don’t think we’d have that much qualms about accidentally killing North Korean civilians with a mistargeted strike (we do it all the time in the Middle East, after all,) but hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions, of South Korean and Japanese civilian casualties are another…

Here’s what your missing: the end goal is to go direct from sunlight to heat to hydrogen, i.e. use concentrated solar to create hydrogen without the need of expensive and inefficient photovoltaics. The lights just give them a much more controllable testing environment.

To be fair, we humans are a lot better at planning for long term threats than any other species ;)

Plus many of the joints are self-tightening, unlike nails (and to a lesser degree screws) that will loosen when vibrated/stressed.

$600 is well into last-gen (but still very good) Surface Pros, or the also-ran Surface Pro wannabes (including from Samsung itself) - why in the world would you want this? I mean sure, if you want the smaller screen I suppose, but the 11" and 12" screens are already awfully small for productivity uses, which is…

So if it doesn’t make sense to have 12, it doesn’t make sense to have 1? Gotcha.

An isolated terrorist nuke. North Korean attack, in which one or two nukes get through. I think both of these scenarios are more likely than a large scale nuclear exchange, and in both scenarios most of the US is unaffected and you can expect rescue efforts to commence very quickly. You don’t need to involve…

Absolutely.

Yep. Though I remain guardedly optimistic that there’s still enough Republicans with integrity left (ha!) or at least self-preservation will kick in when they realize just how far off the rails this presidency is going.

I’m not sure it’s so harmless. Right now, sure. But if he’s not held to account for such a serious accusation, now and in the future, we risk this becoming acceptable behavior from the POTUS, which will likely cause real harm in the future.

It’s irrelevant what they were originally intended for; if you can use SSBMs as a first strike that removes the opponent’s second strike capability, you don’t need a final MAD blow. It’s not MAD anymore.  

I would wager there’s a strut connecting the wings through the balloon.

Still relying on ol’ forego protective equipment in alien environments crutch? Check!

Radio does not mean omnidirectional. Given the crazy high intensity and very brief time involved, FRBs are probably quite highly collimated and sweeping over the Earth, as mentioned in the article above.

(particularly one that seems incredibly inefficient for travel)

Agreed. Though when your policies are based on ignorance and unicorns, reality will always eventually bite you in the ass. Of course when that happens Trump’ll just blame the media / Obama / deep state / China / Illuminati, and his supporters will lap it up.

As much as it pains me, I think regressing a few decades on civil rights is preferable to becoming an authoritarian Russian puppet state.

Pretty sure we’re living in a simulation, and the guys running it is simulating what happens when a trump because president. I know that’s what I would do if I had a world simulator at my disposal.