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It’ll heat up the firebox, which is exactly what the firebox wants to happen. It’s not like we’re using precisely-timed explosives to briefly make the mass much more than critical and counter its desire to blow itself apart for long enough that it blows other things apart, too.

You can boost it by hollowing out the middle and filling it with tritium, but plutonium is dense, so 80 tons will probably fit in the firebox just fine.

Some of the charity is self-serving, e.g. eradicating diseases means he’s less likely to catch them (and really any billionaire not funnelling funds to pandemic prevention etc. is being moronic), and founding charter schools on land he owns so over the life of the school they pay more in rent for the lease than they cost to build is just a tax dodge. Most billionaires are just so evil that they won’t spend money on themselves if other people who aren’t paying also benefit, so in comparison, Gates’ better ability to judge what’s in his interests makes him look good.

You get both sizes of gametes with all kinds of bodies. It’s only the testes/ovaries that are reliably correlated with gamete size, and anything further away from their production than that has about the same chance of not being the style you’d expect as an atom has of not being hydrogen or helium, just like the original meme alludes to.

The geeky minority who care that it’s open source might be predisposed to liking each other, though, so the user base wouldn’t need to be as big as a general-purpose dating app.

It’s still a luxury yacht decked out with nearly all the things you’d expect from a half a billion dollar superyacht. Only part of it is customised for research. If the main goal was to turn half a billion dollars into a research boat, this isn’t the boat that would get made.

They use thorns instead of th, so always attract downvotes when their posts contain words with th in them.

He does in one of the films. He sings a little song while scanning for life forms, then gets scared and hides under a table on an away mission.

They might just think he’s into vintage fashion and had his eyes altered so he didn’t have to damage the antique glasses by replacing the original lenses. It’s not like sick bay couldn’t put his vision right in a few seconds if he wanted to take the glasses off again.

Plenty of bank apps work just fine. None of the ones I’ve tried had problems, except Santander, which works perfectly after changing a setting.

It’s 2025. Even snails are renting their homes these days.

I’ve never used or dissassembled an American microwave, so wouldn’t know about anything American-specific.

Having a ceramic plate at the end of the wave guide isn’t evidence that there’s not a wave stirrer on the other side of the plate or part way along the wave guide. As far as the microwaves are concerned, the ceramic plate is a hole, though, because (unless the manufacturer selected a stupid material), it should be about as transparent to microwaves as the air is.

if the diagram’s any good, it should show the wave stirrer in the roof rather than on the ceiling of the food chamber. There’s typically a waveguide to take the microwaves from the magnetron to the top of the chamber, then the wave stirrer is at the end of the waveguide to vary the angle that microwaves enter the chamber at. There’s usually something to stop food splashing/spraying into that section, though, e.g. an extra few centimetres of waveguide afterwards with a bend in it.

Of all the dangerous devices to disassemble, they’re one of the safest. A phone charger might still have 400V across one of the capacitors ten minutes after unplugging it (if you’re in a 230V RMS country, so have more than 400V peak-to-peak), but a microwave’s high-voltage section is only powered when it’s plugged in, and microwaves are so long wavelength that even if you reassemble the waveguide or outer case badly and leave gaps, there probably won’t be dangerous levels of microwaves escaping as gaps much smaller than the wavelength in question don’t compromise the Faraday cage.

Usually it’s not inside the same chamber as the food as then it would be a nuisance to clean. You need to take a microwave apart to see the wave stirrer.

Most microwaves have a spinning wave stirrer in addition to the rotating plate. From the description here, it just sounds like either your plate rotation motor is broken or you’ve got a weirdly simple microwave.

It’s not shifting goalposts, you’ve just been arguing against Star Trek missing different goalposts to the ones everyone else understood it to be aiming for for several posts.

The Fedaration core worlds are ones like Earth, Vulkan, Andoria and Tellar that have been member worlds for a very long time and are physically closer to the center of Federation territory. By the time of TOS, it’s obviously not just the founding four worlds, but as TOS is a series about a multi-year deep space exploration mission, nearly every planet the Enterprise visits is going to be either outside the Fedaration or a frontier world. If a planet only gets a throw-away line rather than a load of exposition about how they’ve been a member for decades and several of the crew are from there, then that’s enough to say it’s a frontier world.

You’ve just listed a bunch of incidents on frontier worlds and said that proves they haven’t solved any problems on core worlds. SIgning some paperwork to join the Federation doesn’t instantly solve all your problems, and colonies aren’t founded with prescience that means they avoid ever running into problems. Also, you’ve ignored the key point that it’s meant to be relative to what’s possible for modern humans, so things like being seriously disabled after exposure to high levels of fictional kinds of radiation like Pike was instead of being a very dead puddle of goo is a huge victory.

I think you’ve got lost in the weeds a bit. They’ve solved all those problems on Earth. They’ve spread those solutions around the core worlds of the Federation. They’re still working on spreading the solutions to other worlds and bringing those worlds into the Federation. The fact that it’s still a work in progress ending war or disease on a galactic scale doesn’t mean that they can’t have already succeeded on the scale that’s relevant to humans contemporary to when the show was made.

You’re thinking of firmware, not drivers. To make a GPU work, you need new enough versions of the kernel, driver and firmware. The open source drivers for Nvidia GPUs are still slower and less featureful than the proprietary ones.