knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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Short version, they made a new kind of digital quantum qubit where the previous state of the art required a lot of analog sensors and controls. This means the equipment needed to hook up the qubits is simpler, and they're hoping to build on this design to make scalable quantum computers that can support many more qubits than current techniques.

Not a huge breakthrough on its own outside of a very niche academic field, but a necessary step towards really expanding on the capabilities of the tech.

Pretend they are Republicans and start breaking the rules.

Also, the immunity wanes over time. You can get tested for the antibodies and get a booster if necessary.

Hell, surface coatings to protect against rust are a multi-billion industry and they often require very specific application methods and even a little deviation can fuck up the bond.

You're not wrong, but something like this is well within the capabilities of private companies like ArianeSpace or SpaceX. Also, the stakes are just a city-killer asteroid, failure is entirely an option when there's plenty of time to evacuate the impact zone.

In short, we already have a plan. DART proved that we can do it, and off-the-shelf rockets like the Falcon 9 have plenty of performance. All that remains is to wait until early 2028 when we get a proper fix on the asteroid, then we've got 7 or 8 months to prep and launch a mission before the window of opportunity closes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5IXX4p2d0

Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that's scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn't take much force and the DART mission proved that it's achievable. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.

We'll get a better idea of whether it'll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.

I'm old enough to remember the '94 crime bill.

What "left"? The Democrats are a moderate right-wing party that have done more to keep actual left-wingers out of power than the Republicans.

You're talking about ancient history. The Democrats went full-fash in '94 with the crime bill.

Since when? For my entire life they've been more concerned with bipartisanship and appeasing right-wingers than opposing them.

A lifetime of lived experience.

Americans are the most domesticated and propagandized culture on the planet. I gave up on the ideal of mass consciousness after Occupy, because the billionaires who own this country have spent generations dumbing it down to the point that almost nobody cares. We're not seeing mass protests of the kind you describe untill things get very bad for a lot of people.

They've always been sham elections, they're just pulling down the curtains that kept most folks believing in the lie.

Yep, can't imagine it any other way, though. Furries and drama go together like.. well, furries and other furries. XD

As best as we can figure it, anyway! =3

Mine.

I'm polyamorous and currently live with three of my boyfriends. I'm also a partner to a married couple that lives halfway across the country.

Neither group likes the other.

I'm also casually involved with two people I met online (but never in person) and an old high school / college fling that passes through town every few months on the way to visit his family.

Things are especially complicated because I'm 19 months into hormone therapy as an enby, which some of my partners are ecstatic about for me while one disapproves because he's not "into" trans people.

Note: this is also just a surface detail. There's personal stuff about more than one of my partners that amplifies the complicatedness, but those aren't my stories to tell.

Seems to me that the most generous interpretation would be the preponderance of Oracle's DBs in the government, and Musk being pedantic since they aren't literally called "SQL" like MySQL, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL (even though most Oracle DBs still fall into that category).