“Nice state you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it...”

Remember, the FBI is chock full of white supremacists.

I’d have to say, acne like that at 26 is likely to fill somebody with rage. But it’s cheaper for all of us in the long run if the dude simply were to go to the dermatologist.

I think it was in the Hacker’s Dictionary long before Reagan nominated the “Chin Slinky” for the Supreme Court.

“It does in fact explain why women as less likely to commit murder: Dames are Not Aggressive. Now let’s discuss the gas turbine engine.”

Frankly, this is bullshit. Yeah, replacing SNP arrays with whole genome sequence gives us more information about a patient, but that’s assuming that just knowing the genetic variants gets you somewhere. There are very few single gene diseases, where a mutation in a single gene makes a difference in terms of response…

Manufacturing is way downstream. 3D printing doesn’t find targets, validate them, generate leads, or optimize them (well, maybe that last part). It’s arguably the least complicated and least expensive part of drug development. Not that it’s not revolutionary, but it’s not of the same order as, say, targeted…

Imagine where we’d be if we paid scientists what we pay Wall Street bankers. How many very smart people do we lose to useless, bullshit professions because we don’t pay our scientists well enough?

My life might be too uneventful, because I’ve never been more psyched about anything.

Or that your mirror fab people don’t forget the null corrector....

Did they grind it? Did Perkin Elmer fuck that one up, too?

I naively believe that a second Webb telescope would cost at least 85% of the cost of the first one. Design time is a fraction of manufacturing and testing for something like this, and you can’t reduce the testing on subsequent copies.

I honestly have no expertise whatever, but I would assume that design would be no more than 10%. Physicists don’t get paid that much, and manufacturing and testing have taken 20X longer than the design.

At 200 miles, the force of gravity has decreased from 9.8 m/s^2 to 8.8 m/s^2. Won’t it still take a wallop to climb most of way out of the earth’s gravity well?

This thing will orbit at 4x the distance of the moon. And in practice many satellites including “observatories” have not been designed for maintenance. I still shudder at the thought of building something that weighs tons and is the size of a Taco Bell, but which is machined to a tolerance of less than a micron, and…

You said words. What I heard “blargle blargle wah wah wah” a la Peanuts. Man, mathematicians are smart people.

Hell, even a $5 wench would do it...

To the receiver, it’s just a photon. It just happens to be entangled by the way in which it is generated/split at the origin. (Though to be fair, I can’t get through “Quantum Mechanics, The Bare Minimum” by Leonard Suskind, so I’m probably spouting gibberish.)

Breaking: novice programmers not necessarily also statesmen.

Um, no? That would mean spending another 8 billion for a scope which, if the first one is successful, wouldn’t get used.