koper

Why do I always feel like I need a PhD to understand even the first paragraph of Wikipedia articles about math. Is that just me?

But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?

I am aware. And usually that means crossposting the jokes or making fun of 4channers, not uncritically repeating their dogwhistles.

Just so you're aware, the phrase "noticing things" or "being a noticer" is 4chan lingo for believing there is a Jewish conspiracy to run the world. That's why I asked OP to clarify.

Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?

Your comment perfectly represents the moral bankruptcy of the Democratic party. The obsession with elections and compromising, even when the midterms are almost two years away.

A proper opposition party would hammer the substance and put the institutional failures on full display. If you don't have principles, there's no point to winning power anyway.

NASA still foots the bill either way. In this arrangement, the cost of development is simply included in the price of the product plus a fixed profit margin. Such 'cost-plus' contracts are criticized because it eliminates competing for efficiency and incentivises contractors to make their solutions as complicated and expensive as possible.

if we take it as true that light speed is the same in every direction

This is the crucial assumption, that to my knowledge hasn't been proven or disproven. Because the alternative, light goes faster in one particular direction, is also perfectly consistent with everything. And if you're moving atomic clocks, correcting for time dilations requires you to make assumptions about the one-way speed of light (which we only know from measuring roundtrip times)

That's just shifting the problem. There is no known way to reliably sync remote clocks except by sending packets and assuming the round-trip time is symmetrical. This is a known problem in physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light

That would be a great follow-up joke.

Now if she chooses the dirty pickup line, you respond with "girl, are you a viking steel crucible? 'Cause I'd put a bone in you."

What will the cops do, shoot them all?

His security detail might. Shooting civilians is their specialty.

May you live in interesting times. What I wouldn't give for a calmly moving trolley.