Ill be darned. I knew they had calculated that the strike initiation energy was pretty damn close to cosmic ray energies. What I didnt know is that they never proved it experimentally.

Back in college we were playing around with it in astrophysics. A couple of things we toyed with were a relativistic charged particle (well a bunch of them really) penetrating deeper into the atmosphere - particle cross section is a probablistic interaction, not a certainty.

If a high enough energy particle (or group of particles) enters the static field in a cloud, the particle will occasionally travel a distance before being absorbed. Most of the time, this would result in cloud to cloud lighting (which is much more frequent), because of simply creating a lower path of resistance and the spike electrelectric field.

That would mean that cloud to ground strikes would require even higher energies to traverse the much longer distance. Problem with relativistic particles is that they only get so fast. So you’d really need a heavier particle. Much heavier charged particle. Traveling at relativistic speeds. It turns out that proton ions fit well into it. But you would have to have a particle accelerator to really send a beam of these ions to the atmosphere to do it. And solar flares don’t get them fast enough.

BUT it turns out there are plenty of sources of such beams in space. Black holes and neutron stars namely. Throw in the gamma radiation background interacting with the atmosphere? And you are cooking with enough energy sources to reliably produce lightning.

Its not reallt ransomware at that point is it? More like a data terrorist.

I always hear terrifying stories that like this ends up being aorta dissection and they learn that they have vascular EDS and almost die.

Its intentional. Don’t think for a second the powers that be couldn’t stop it.

Thank goodness its politicians trying to make this rule. And there is no way in hell we would ever create a way to circumvent it in a completely legal way by default.

Open to suggestions.

I don’t think any of y’all know how well protected this asshole is

265,000,000 removed from America is their goal.

Hey, thanks for being so considerate. Except it was Friday about 5 hours ago for me.

The West?

You mean the GOP? The rest of us used it mockingly.

Did anyone really believe that though? It’s been wide knowledge that attacking Iran would have been a stupid move given the amount of power the theocracy has. They regularly massacre protestors and don’t give a fuck. Theocracies don’t have the same limitations of other forms of authoritarians with a central head. Everything is laid out in doctrine, which is seen as higher than law.

The real reason I hate using LLMs is because I have to “think” like a social human non software engineer.

For whatever fucking reason, I just can’t get these things to be useful. And then I see idiots connecting an LLM to production like this.

Is that the problem? I literally can’t turn my brain off. The only other nearly universal group of people that seems opposed to LLMs are psychologists and social workers who seem to be universally concerned about its negative effects on mental health and it’s encouragement of abandoning critical thinking.

Like I can’t NOT think through a problem. I already know more about my software than the AI could actually figure out. Anytime I go into GitHub Copilot and say “I want this feature” I get some code and the option to apply it. But the generated code is usually duplicate of something and doesn’t usually pick up or update existing models. The security flaws are rampant, and the generated tests don’t do much of any real testing.

Tbh I think the billionaires are betting that if AI happens they’ll be able to be immortal because the AI will be able to transfer their brains into Cymeks

What is PUA?

Yeah that checks out. My Gen z girlfriend has said as much. She’s into women and “men who are at least old enough to remember 9/11 clearly.”

The Gen Z men she has dated were “rude, cruel, and more interested in controlling me(her).”

Hehehe thems fighting words

Ground zero please

Instant annihilation sounds pleasant

I don’t think we were talking about that?

It’s sort of why I’m vocal when I see those comments pop up. Remind them that it’s a stupid position to have to start with, anyone actually planning to do something knows what OPSEC is, and they know any action has to be extraordinarily precise, not just shooting at feds.

Idk where this idea came from that he has any legal basis in postponing elections.

Even if Congress gave authorization to declare war, and Trump enacted martial law, the worst he could do is use law enforcement to intimidate voters. Which he’s already attempting to do.

Monkey paw finger curls

Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945