BOCA CHICA, TX Jan 17, 2025: Qualifying the 7th Starship launch as an amazing success, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the next launch is scheduled for later this month, after his Inauguration. The Starship will feature improved heat shielding, a revised payload bay arrangement, Full Self Driving, and will land directly into a Hyperloop tube that will take it back to base at 1000 miles per hour.
Question for physicists: if Schroedinger puts a mirror in the box with the cat etc, will the cat still be in a superposition of states after it looks into the mirror, with the box still closed?
What if the cat is dumb and thinks that the reflection is not itself, but another cat?
Many months ago I posted a request on the Mastodon bug/suggestion site for more flexible polls, including polls with more than 4 choices. Comments have supported the idea, but nothing happened...
Garland could save a tiny little bit of his reputation by simply ignoring her and releasing the report. But of course he chose to end his term with perfect 100% cowardice score...
Jan 15,2025 MAR-A-LAGO, FL: After the negative reaction to his announcement yesterday President-Elect Donald T. Rump clarified that the Food Stamps program will not be eliminated entirely. The assistance will still be available to productive Americans, namely those who have a job and at least 1 billion dollars of net worth.
Jan 14, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO, CA - A manifesto signed by the CEOs of several large technology companies is calling for strict regulation of AI to preserve job security and salaries, to "avoid unacceptable social damage", says the document.
This surprising attitude reversal may have been spurred by OpenAI's recent release of ZuckGPT, an AI persona with all the attributes of a modern CEO -- such as incompetence, arrogance, callousness, narcissism, and fascist ideology.
In 2025 Tesla will release Full Self Driving and the Robotaxi and Optimus for home and its sales will grow 50% and Starship will go to the Moon and Mars and sales of the Cybertruck will take off and MyPillow will order a 100 Tesla Semis and the Boring Co will dig 1000 miles under Dallas and Trump will give Musk $20 billion to build a Washington-NY Hyperloop and you can get a Neuralink implant and SolarCity and
You left out the fact that in April 1964 Brazil's democratically elected government was deposed -- with full and explicit US support -- by the military, who remained in power for the next 20 years. Until the Argentinian war for the Falklands convinced the US that military dictatorships was not a good way to control Latin American countries, and they switched to a different method.
That puts a somewhat different light in the "US intervention" you have there.
Computer Science professor, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.Generally leftist (which means socialist outside the US), dreaming of democracy, justice, equality, disarmament, respect for science and human life, green energy, etc.Posts in Portuguese are about topics of mostly Brazilian interest.