I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject
How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.
Why? We don't have enough work for the number of people that our work can sustain. Our ancestors literally dreamt of a time when the labor of a few could allow the leisure of the masses. We would be better served at this point addressing workaholic tendencies and refocusing that energy into something they actually enjoy doing.
The US specifically didn't choose a two party system. We accidentally set one up. The math proving that FPTP has a 100% guaranteed chance to devolve into a two party system hadn't been done until the mid 1800s
It wouldn't be enough. Sure you could use magnetic boots to keep you "attached," to the outside of a magnetically affected spaceship's outer hull, though I would imagine that with the lack of atmosphere and magnetic field to protect you from space radiation we may be inclined to use materials that aren't necessarily magnetic in nature.
All that was to say, yes it would possibly work as a backup tether, but since nothing is pulling on the rest of your body it wouldn't simulate gravity as much as simulate a tether rope that keeps you from floating away.
Inside the ship it is easier to pretend to be a parkour expert than having magnetic shoes.
They mostly lose their money because everyone that finds out that they are suddenly rich, starts sueing to get what "they are owed," or someone just kills them. The ones that can't control their spending might never go broke, provided they got the lump sum invested by a fiduciary quickly enough.
You are, again, orders of magnitude off, and have no clue what you are talking about. I'm an actual nuclear power scientist, so yeah. I'm gonna ignore all the lies you tell from now on.
No worries, oh one more tip. When re-stringing your violin or viola, hold it so that the chin rest is pointing away from you, and at around a 45° angle. If, for some reason, like the pegs being tight and unwaxed, you over tighten the A or E strings too much they will snap. Generally along the direction of the fingerboard, and generally toward the top of the string so the string-turned-whip travels, generally, along the direction of the fingerboard and away from your face. Violins and violas kinda hate their existence as far as I can tell.
Deep core mining is the real tech we need. Blow up a 10 gigaton device on the surface and you'll melt a hemisphere of the upper layer of the crust and create a 30 mile diameter crater. Bury that baby 5,000 miles into the planet and blow it up? The Earth is gonna need help opening it's ketchup bottles for a few billion years until it reforms, potentially around the moon which I suppose would actually stabilize the moon's orbit, but would probably make neo-Earth uninhabitable.
If you blow it up on the surface or in the atmosphere, sure. Blow up a 10 gigaton device, which we absolutely can make and have the materials to do so, buried as deep as you can possibly get it, so about 1.5-1.6 miles in the crust, and you're gonna wreck a significant portion of a hemisphere.
Especially since U-238 is one of the most abundant elements in the crust. Literally every single shovel full of dirt that you pick up has several hundred to several million atoms of U-238
Project Sundial wasn't just theoretical. We had the ability, the materials, and the technical knowledge to build it. The political will faltered and blinked.
You know how you can absolutely verify that? We built it in thousands of different bombs rather than just one big one.
If we had made a 10 gigaton device where it was supposed to be located in eastern California, or western Nevada, blowing that up would have created a massive crater that probably would have measured at least 30 miles in diameter, and all of the US would die in the first blast. Normally when talking about nuclear or fusion weapons I would call the US citizens the lucky ones, because we wouldn't have to live with the consequences. In this case, all of humanity is lucky, and basically no one survives the blast shockwave. The shockwave would circle the globe multiple dozens of times. No one that isn't in a fortified bunker will survive the 1000 mph winds that would cause. Those winds would sandblast the surface almost smooth.
This is a world ending bomb. Half the planet's crust would be molten for decades if not centuries. It would probably be the first mass extinction event that kills off more than 99.9% of all species. 10 gigatons is about 1/4-1/5 the amount of energy that Theia imparted to Proto-Earth which created two moons for a very short period of time, and made the entire planet molten for another 1/4 billion years.
Oh, and I agree with Teller on this one. He, correctly in my view, assumed that the end game of fusion weapons was a way to end all life on Earth, and designed the endgame. I think we were very stupid to split that up into massive stockpiles that, "maybe we could use one or a few, but not all of them." That's far too big of a risk for normal humans. Someone will use them again if they are as small as they are.
How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.