The guy just invents particles and you think we should trust him?

j/k

To paraphrase one of society’s less brilliant thinkers, “Who would have thought heathcare advanced materials science could be so hard?”

I had a little discussion with a guy complaining about sodium batteries and how you keep hearing these wild claims and then nothing. I did a quick search and saw an article about a $2 billion partnership agreement to work on a pilot plant for sodium batteries. He claimed it was yet another sensational headline and doubted anything would happen from it. Less than a week later I saw an article about a plant in America being announced.

This stuff is hard. It’s not like Master of Orion where you throw money at a specific research and get access upon completion. Different groups around the world are researching a multitude of different ideas, some related, and after a while a bunch of these ideas are combined and associated and researched, and all of a sudden you have a new product that’s significantly different from what was available before. And then you see incremental improvements for decades, not unlike the internal combustion engine or rechargeable lithium batteries.

You can always check RPiLocator.com. Looks like there is a reasonable supply in Europe for the Pi 5, and some variant or other is available in many places worldwide.

Space habitats ftw!

It took me about a minute to find this: graphene aerogel for sale.

Once the superweapon made from fir wood, Indian ocean tuna, granite and parafin becomes public we’ll have to negotiate with even the smallest faction and arrange for the welfare and contentment of everyone…

Don’t worry, biological weapons get easier to make every day!

Those checks go to the larger YouTube channels, not people like you and me. Did you mean something different?

/s

And blaming the medical community for that is as silly as blaming them for the toilet paper shortage.

Add to that the medical community has basically burnt any good will they had from the public by crazy pricing and poor access combined with mediocre results.

You realize masks are generally sold by manufacturers, and not what would traditionally be referred to as the medical community. Blaming doctors and nurses for masks being expensive or hard to get seems a little ridiculous. “How dare the medical community, represented by…Home Depot…charge so much for N95 masks!”

Me, watching my kid squint whenever he goes outside on bright days and complaining of headaches after half an hour, “Yes, it would.”