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Yes, you'd need another 6x10^15 of them to even act as a trigger for a battlefield thermonuclear weapon to destroy something like a tank, apparently.

They can also tend to be harmful in combination, such as in the case of relatively unstable unsaturated fatty acids going on to be glycated in the presence of sugars (some moreso than others); it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were examples such as this which fuelled a significant proportion of all "diseases of civilization".

Stated preference vs. revealed preference

I don't know what's worse: a gradual realisation that there's going to be nothing that anyone can do to prevent your sudden, violent death or a gradual realisation that you're going to be slowly asphyxiated.

The human brain can run on up to 70% ketones overall (this is not only safe, but it appears to have additional therapeutic benefits) and your body can synthesize glucose in your liver and kidneys from fats and proteins though gluconeogenesis to supply the remaining parts of your brain that can't metabolize betahydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone.

That may be, but you know that in order to truly one-up him and show your dedication you're going to have to do it on rollers.

You get this with anything that hasn't been mass-produced at a large scale and commodified for a long time. It's more remarkable that something like a car (or a mobile phone, or a CPU) is cheap than that something like an electric bike motor is expensive. And it could be that this is a poor application for this type of motor technology and that a better type will be developed and that we'll look back on this as an expensive relic that was holding us back.

He's probably hesitant to do something that would be likely to bring his company's satellites closer to being seen as combatants in a proxy war between major powers, seeing as they were being used as an important part of Ukraine's drone warfare in this case, and actively countering Russia's countermeasures would be likely to move the status of him and his business interests from "relatively neutral" to "Axis of Evil".

Hiraeth is a Welsh word that describes a longing for a place that cannot be visited, perhaps because it no longer exists or has never existed.

I imagine that for any small-to-medium sized avian a ~100lb robot could very easily become a threat.

It's p̶a̶r̶t̶i̶c̶u̶l̶a̶r̶l̶y̶ pretty hard to obtain guidance systems and components or certain types of ruggedized electronics that haven't been deliberately gimped to prevent them from being used in supersonic or exoatmospheric missiles while on the USA Naughty List, and North Korea doesn't yet seem to have an advanced manufacturing base for this that I'm aware of, whereas Texas or Japan would be a different story.

I don't think that the signer would be able to verify the authenticity of the data that it received from the sensor and image processing circuitry unless they were able to authenticate each other securely. I know that an attack on a system like you proposed would still be expensive, but it would become more attractive if its characteristics were overplayed (and would then be subject to legal challenge). Forensics, of course on the other hand is based on experts saying "yes, by all accounts this appears to have happened".