The F-117 and B-2 are far from triangles. You would have better luck with the F-102 and F-106, which had delta wings. And they are all far from UFOs. The projected A-12 Avenger II "flying dorito" was a literal triangle (but was never built).
An absolute big nothing. Only rumor and speculation. I read a book all about it, and it came down to hints, "someone said," and sheer fantasy. No photos. No diagrams. No reports. No witnesses.
From Wikipedia (so corrupt, they even falsify raw data, right?):
"In 2021, a study by Cambridge University determined that Bitcoin (at 121 terawatt-hours per year) used more electricity than Argentina (at 121TWh) and the Netherlands (109TWh). According to Digiconomist, one bitcoin transaction required 708 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy, the amount an average U.S. household consumed in 24 days."
"By 2022, the University of Cambridge and Digiconomist estimated that the two largest proof-of-work blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum, together used twice as much electricity in one year as the whole of Sweden..."
They started out at zero.
Some commentary said it sounded like sonar pings, and it does. It also sounds to me like heartbeats. They are probably accidentally receiving EM signals from regular machinery in the ISS.
Excellently concise.
They look more like they are attending a bank stickup.
This is subject to senior memory defect, but I think I saw a reference to an unfettered poll on X that had something like 72% for Trump and 28% for Harris. It was a very large sample. More Hopium than Mopium.
From No Wits to Half Wit.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. That is not even a compete sentence.
I can't recover the path back on our exchange. I presume you are disparaging systems like Western Union. No, it only takes as long as it takes to execute the transfer message. My relatives can pick up the money as soon as they can get to a Western Union outlet. Sometimes there are hangups, but those are often imposed by the country you are sending to, and mysterious banking regulations (I have encountered this). When I have submitted cash and they pick up cash, the funds have been sent, period. You have a highly theoretical (and incorrect) idea of something that is practiced daily by lots and lots of people.
Do not get too enamored of an imaginary world. This world will be one of the first things to break and vanish if "hard times" come to pass. You tell me how many people out there who are willing to accept cryptocurrency and that will be the size of your market. And it has to be international? A very specialized market. And you have to assume that the blockchain is not controlled by a centralized group? My goodness, that is at least as bad as the fact that I must also make the same assumption.
I buy things online, when I want to and it is convenient. For other purposes, it is inconvenient. I do fine with credit and debit cards, from multiple vendors. And since I live in the Seattle-Tacoma corridor, I don't know why you want to throw shade at me for living somewhere else. Maybe you don't know that Alabama was where our Apollo vehicles were designed or all of our Army ballistic missiles, but that wouldn't surprise me.
That's not good, of course. But it leaves the whole subject in mystery.
If DTCC is some kind of common knitting system, then okay. But do you really have a point of information or are you just wanting to one-up me by introducing new elements.
A power outage will interrupt mining. A stock market will go down for the length of the power interruption, and then go back up. Who, knows, maybe crypto could come back up. But it is like saying a Ponzi scheme can survive a hiccup, when the real problem is that it has a limited life based on the mismatch between income and outgo. The currency represents an energy debt, not an asset. (It reminds me of the idea of Technocracy of the "technate," a currency based on a unit of energy.)
Close enough to the moment, based on my wife's ability to get funds.
What problem was that? How to convey money instantaneously halfway around the world? That is a pretty unique problem, one that I am dealing with as a reality and you are writing about as an hypothesis. Crypto would just add another layer of uncertainty as to whether it could ever be converted to the local currency elsewhere.
And if its identity is evaporated, you are no better off. Please don't bother me with hypotheticals. I and my family have had to find multiple modes of funds transport to cope with banks both here and there."
But don't get cocky over fiat currency. I said I do not support it. If the truckers in Canada had gold or silver specie, they might have gotten along. All the government need do is forbid the legitimacy of crypto trade. How are you going to prove you bought anything with that in place?
All you prove is that the Communists racked up more kills than the Nazis, not that they weren't both murderers. They are the same, in everything that matters.
Are you a Nazi? I'm just curious. I don't know why you are so devoted to the occurrence of the Final Solution. Or the kinds of people that made it happen.
Only so different as Northside Mafia vs. Southside Mafia. Where they are different doesn't make a difference in execution (double entendre intended).
You are not reading what i am saying. Being shot from the front is not only consistent with entry wounds in the back of the head, it would be expected. A third wound from the front would only be one more wound. I don't see that it explodes any theory of anything.
By the way, I used to be a member of the International Wound Ballistics Association. Their journal once conducted an independent analysis of the government report of the Kennedy assassination and concluded that the given conclusions were correct based on the forensic evidence. There were a number of peculiarities that were resolved on deeper analysis.
The defeat shows its head by a complete dropping of the topic and a new twist involving an imputation against the opponent. No, I don't prefer that the stock market be controlled by a corrupt bureaucracy. The "market" is a community of individual markets, so I'm not aware of any central control (and you aren't either).
Unlikely that the "entire stock market" could go down. For one thing, there is great redundancy in the fact that they are all tracking the same data, and for another thing they will have backup memory for the current status of data (+timestamp).
And what makes you think that crypto couldn't go down the drain? All it takes is to sabotage the power supply to the mining operations. I see that you avoid the whole subject of crypto's weakness: its dependence on continued mining in order to close its business case and maintain the blockchain computation. That kind of precarious computational environment should be fairly easy to ruin.
I didn't dodge anything. You are living in dreamland. I have been living this year in the world of electronic funds transfer among 4 different currencies where the exchange rates vary by day. I happen to know what "hard times" can look like.
You have no answer to the problem of hard times, so get used to them. Especially if someone gets a worm into the mining centers.
Better in that it is immune to power outages and server disruptions? Don't kid a kidder. Next you will be wanting auto-driving and A.I. surgery.
And when things are not working as intended, crypto could be far worse than fiat currency. It is not traceable to any standard of value. Since when does the numerical solution to an obscure algorithm have ANY commodity value? This is why crypto exchange rates are so volatile. One day it is worth this; another day it is worth that. Very vexing in international exchange. (Try to balance dollars, pounds, kwacha, and rand all at the same time.)
Anybody can make electronic Monopoly Money. And if you want to believe it has value (because you paid for it) you are welcome to that delusion.
You can have electronic money transfers without sending a courier with a pouch of gold coins. I don't know where you've been for the past century. The stock markets are able to make frighteningly rapid transfers made on the basis of equally rapid transfers of information.
A rapid transfer of something that has no commodity value is like a signal bounced off the Moon. Impressive...but insubstantial. I don't see that rapid international monetary exchange solves many problems of ordinary people, who are more concerned about the stability and permanence of their funds.
Oh, yeah. "Global corruption" has hidden away vast reserves of electricity. It is all out in the open. There is no secret cache of electricity. It requires the construction of powerplants. When the blockchain computational requirements ramp up to the power demands of a small country, the cost of running that power will have to be paid somehow. i have read that crypto mining centers are commissioning their own powerplants to sustain the mining. When you require geometric consumption of a resource to sustain a linear increase in product, the collapse is built into the mathematics. It is a more technological form of Ponzi scheme, built on the premise that the ultimate future accounting will not happen...or will happen so far in the future that we can rape the present as much as we want. Kind of like Keynesian economics. If you are fond of this sort of thing, you won't have much of a future.
Who do you think is going to pay for this power usage? A bitcoin does not represent an asset. It represents a sunk cost. And you are paying for it by tendering assets.
A "far superior" system that can do down the drain? And is doomed by the inexorable geometric demand for power to sustain the mining? That sounds like fantasy land. As we used to say in systems engineering: "It works...until it doesn't." All of systems engineering is centered on preventing "it doesn't."
So, what happens if the data banks go down?
And Tesla had no flying machine. Nothing easier than to talk about than dreams. Tesla was a great inventor, and his inventions are firmly within the laws of physics, but he was also a grandiose self-promoter. Many of his prophecies came to nothing.