I am not an expert, but I am assuming that the interference would slow down mobile data, lower sound quality on mobile phone calls, and probably more dropped calls. Much as I hate AT&T, I am on their side for this one. An “an 18% average reduction in network downlink throughput” sounds significant to me.

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Hey! He survived his own personal Vietnam!

“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with.

Is Caitlyn Jenner refusing to respect other people’s pronouns/names or used the issue as a political weapon? As far as I know, her only position is that people should relax about cases of accidentally misgendering people.

Nikki Haley, on the other hand, has made numerous public statements attacking the use of people’s chosen pronouns. So yes, I feel fine attacking her on the issue because she has chosen it as a weapon against others.

Sauce for the goose, my friend. Going high while our opponents go low is why this nation is in the state it is right now. If they chose to wrestle in the muck rather than abide by civilized rules, then I’m more than content to get dirty and fight them there if that serves me best. I see no reason to cede them any advantage out of an outmoded sense of fair play.

No, you’re the one supporting the side whose potential VP candidate wrote “Finish them” on a piece of artillery to be used in the genocide that you pretend to be against, because she rightly believes their base will eat it up and doing so will help her get elected.

And work to undermine NATO.

Again, not a physicist, so here’s a bunch of words that sum up to “maybe.”

With the object moving so fast I’m not sure we’d notice anything much. We would only be in it’s gravitational field for a very short time, but it might be long enough to change Earth’s orbit, someone with better math skills will need to field that one.

As for heating the Earth, again that’s a maybe. Gravity is stronger the closer you are to the center of mass. So the near side of the Earth will feel the pull of the object much more strongly than the further side. That will make the Earth want to stretch towards the object as the near side falls towards the object faster than the far side. It would be very slight, think egg-shaped but not to a noticeable degree, but it could be bad enough.

This is called a tidal effect and would generate some heat if we’re in the gravity well of the object for long enough. It would also cause fault lines to pop all over the globe. The object would shoot by very quickly though at 99.9999c so we might be spared the worst of the effects. Again, someone with better math skills could give a more accurate answer.

FYI tidal effects are why the moons of the gas giants aren’t frozen ice balls. The constant flexing as they orbit their planet generates tremendous amounts of heat.

First, no object could be accelerated to that speed. Relativistic effects make that impossible. However, gravity waves move at the speed of light so there is some delay in gravitational effects. I’m not a physicist, but I’m pretty sure that if your sun-sized object shot through the solar system at 99.9999% the speed of light, and passed between the Earth and the Sun, it would take about 4 minutes for the object’s gravity to be felt by either the Earth or the Sun.

Temperature is a measure of kinetic energy at the molecular/atomic level. That said, the gasses falling into a black hole would likely reach such hypothetical temperatures as they near the event horizon.

I wonder how many fools are out there that will pay for this.

I’m picturing a rogue AI secretly embezzling all the ad money and building a huge pile of cash to fund a robot factory in order to build itself a body.

There are other reasons besides it being apocalyptic that climate scientists might consider the model less useful than others. This video rebuttal to the video you posted explains some of those reasons quite well. The rebuttal is from Dr. Adam Levy who is a climate scientist. I mention this only because Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder, the maker of your video, actually has a degree in physics, not climate science. One should be very cautious when considering opinions of people who are speaking outside their field of expertise. While she may be an expert in her own field, she is not a climate scientist.

It reminds me of Larry Niven’s The Integral Trees. It takes place in a gas torus of breathable air around a neutron star.

While you have a point, in an emergency you cannot wait on debate, there should still be an elected body that can overrule the authoritarian commander if they feel he or she is taking a dangerous path.

Typical conservative victim mentality. It can’t be a result of his actions, no. It’s not his fault the company is crashing and burning. It’s those darn blackmailing advertisers!

To be fair, most of the reporting on both sides is probably rife with propaganda from the other. Good luck learning the truth about any of it.

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First, how can you restore sight to someone who never had in the first place? Second, anyone got a link to any details about these folks who were apparently born blind but had sight surgically granted to them?

Nevermind. I found this article that talks about this exact topic.

I was running the Waiting for Dodger mission. As I always do, I was going through all the computers I find. On one of them I found an email from one thug to another saying he’d found an uncrackable shard from some corpo. Then, in another room, I found an encrypted Company Expense Account shard.

“Ooh!” Thinks I, and cracks my knuckles. “Free eddies!” Of course it was nothing for my V to crack the encryption and liberate the impressive number of eddies within. This whole mission is a riot.