We need to get the Iranians working on nuclear fusion instead.

It successfully didn’t backfire on the US.

It’s good for them. That’s the point they’re making. All this shows that for many countries nuclear proliferation is the way to guarantee their safety.

Who is "them"? Definitely not the people.

"safety" for whom? Definitely not the people. They starve.

The people arent being pppressed by the bomb, but by their leaders. The odea that the US would liberate all peoples from tyranical rulers is naive. The US routinely installs and supports tyrants who allign with their geopolitical goals. Pol pot, pahlavi, pinochet, marcos, suharto, seko, the banana republics. Nukes didnt enable those guys, the US did

> "safety" for whom? Definitely not the people. They starve.

Better to have privation than to get bombed and massacred in large numbers.

My bad - I didn't know Iran was starving Jews to death in concentration camps. Can you point me to a source ?

They love to project the past crimes of the West onto the East as a justification for their current crimes.

If bombing Germany was a crime, then call me the world's greatest war crime supporter.

This is a comment sub-thread about DPRK

Safety for whomever controls the nukes, whether autocratic (Iran) or democratic (Ukraine).

Russia would not have attacked Ukraine if they still had their nuclear weapons and Iran wouldn’t be under attack now if they had them too.

I’m not saying whether it’s goods or bad that any or specific countries have nuclear weapons, that’s beside the point. The point is that this attack sends the signal that the only way to guarantee your safety is to have them.

If raw materials isn’t the bottle neck for life every where, then what might it further down the line between oceans full of nucleotides and life? The oceans themselves?

Temperature range and magnetic field are my first thoughts.

I think it’s less about tools and more about the spaces that humans operate in.

You don’t need a human-like hand to hold a tool made for humans. As an extreme example, you can make a robot operate a power drill with strap to hold it and a servo with a small bit of wood to operate the trigger mechanism.

But for a robot operating in a space made for humans there certainly are some physical requirements which are based on the human form: maximum volume and clearances, stairs, fragile fixtures that can’t be operated with too much force, etc.

Ever walk through some over-crowded antique shop where you need to twist and lean your body to avoid knocking into thing?

Ah, so this is why many companies end up full of sociopaths who contribute nothing to the actual revenue of the company: they all managed to weasel themselves into the “profit centers” while the chumps doing actual work that keeps the lights on remain in the “cost centers”.

It only looks bright if the laser is aimed directly at you. But I suppose even that depends on the wavelength used.

Its only bright for a couple of nano seconds, then it gets really dark ... for ever

If you’ve had soups and broth made with lots of bones, and you want to recreate that same mouth feel and experience without using loads of bones, then you can achieve that by using gelatin, because gelatin is exactly what the first dish had that yours is missing. It’s literally the missing ingredient if you’re not cooking with the bones.

Also, they simply aren’t perfect replacements for each other. Agar and gelatin are certainly similar in many ways, but the are not the same.

He says that he encourages the pieces to only transported by re-shipping them through FedEx, so as they change owners and travel the world they will become progressively more damaged.

This is a refreshingly pragmatic approach to modern art and I love it.