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    Science: "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

    Maybe...but just more of a materials science problem to make enough of the stuff to even experiment with. One of our boys (Tim Fisher '91, PhD '98) is a leader in this field, and he has publications on graphene going back at least until 2011. I worked with him briefly when he was at Purdue and...
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    Elon Musk the 21st century Edison??

    Ah - I thought we were talking about a scenario where we were claiming to save humanity in case something happened to earth, and you just wanted to select the worthy to go. What you actually want is just an enclave for humans with a moat. Save yourself a few hundred trillion dollars and buy...
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    Elon Musk the 21st century Edison??

    You put far too much faith in genetics, or rather heritability. Plenty of genius level enlightened humans have kids who are full-on orcs. Handpick whatever 1000 humans you wish to found your colony, and by the third generation it will look like a cross section of America.
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    Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

    Surely this is just as illegal as “pump and dump” right? “Droop and swoop?”
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    Elon Musk the 21st century Edison??

    You guys are trying to have it both ways: “We need to be able to colonize other worlds to save humanity!” Um, yeah, but that’s impossible within our current understanding of physics and economics. “That’s okay, we’ll just do small things instead” Then how exactly does that save humanity...
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    Science: "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

    Ok, this was published in 1985, so I assume some of you have seen this, but crossed my path for the first time today: The first four sentences of "States of Matter," a textbook on statistical mechanics, by David Goldstein: "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical...
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    The States : red states in a race to the bottom

    Made me laugh, as an alum of a 60-player high school orchestra with 9 double-basses..... (and the applied chemistry lesson was very cool - thank you!)
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    Elon Musk the 21st century Edison??

    "we're soooo close to colonizing Mars. All we're really missing is a teleportation device, and we'll be there!"
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    Elon Musk the 21st century Edison??

    I did a very cursory analysis (it's what I do for a living - can't help it) of what it would cost to put a single, small bulldozer on the moon (I think it was 20,000 lbs). I couldn't find it just now, but I recall that it was well north of $100M - for just the transportation costs for just one...
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    The States : red states in a race to the bottom

    Yes , but that would take planning and multi-industry coordination and long-term maintenance agreements, and…..OH GOD MY QUARTERLY NUMBERS ARE DUE!!!!
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    Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

    So even the AEI thinks Trump's erratic trade policy will hurt US Manufacturing more than it will help. But they'd vote for him again in a heartbeat, and in multiple precincts if they could.
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    The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

    Can't remember if I've shared this or not, but my uncle (Cornell '68) was co-patent holder of the first video endoscope. He won a bunch of awards, including the ASME Holley Medal for "outstanding and unique act(s) of an engineering nature, accomplishing a noteworthy and timely public benefit,"...
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    Dump Term 2, Part 2: "A third term would be a big shattering."

    Gosh, I sure hope Trump made him PINKY promise..... Neville Chamberlain could not be reached for comment.
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    Russian Invasion of Ukraine

    So after this wonderful, amazing, historic, game-changing summit, the ball is now in Zalenskyy's court.....just like before the summit. Sheesh.
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    Russian Invasion of Ukraine

    So Dump says Putin wants a deal. Harumph. You don't negotiate with terrorists or two-year-olds (but I repeat myself). How about this deal: Borders return to 2013. Russia withdraws all troops and demilitarizes the border Russia agrees to offensive weapons bans and inspections Russia pays...
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    NCAA Hockey - 2023/24 **Insert Witty Tagline**

    Hear, hear. I don't think it's too late - the refs are *still* reviewing Cornell's possible goal against UNH in the 2003 NCAA semifinal.....
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    Dump Term 2, Part 2: "A third term would be a big shattering."

    Two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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    NCAA Hockey - 2023/24 **Insert Witty Tagline**

    Governor? Neither William Cornell (college) nor Ezra Cornell (university) were governors. Yeah.....but I'm kinda glad I didn't go to "White University."
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    Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

    Only for the workers. The important people (casino owners) will get bailed out, so nothing really to worry about.
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    Dump Term 2, Part 2: "A third term would be a big shattering."

    Pimps gotta work, too, y'all.
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