The F-15s M61 cannon sprays 20mm shells at 4000-6000 rounds per minute and they travel at high velocity for miles. You'd have to be extremely careful about picking an unpopulated area to do this over. I doubt any air-to-air missiles would lock onto this thing (I'm certainly no expert). And as you pointed out, this thing is beyond an F-15s service ceiling, so it would be risky. A U2 or other recon aircraft could easily reach that altitude, but they have no weapons.

Maybe they're planning to get more aggressive/creative when it's over the Atlantic.

It's likely humans have been helping each other give birth since we were human.

> If humanity really put their mind to it, went all out and built an Orion type spacecraft, we could probably get it there within 3000 years or so.

What are the chances that this spacecraft could travel at relativistic speed through space for 3000 years without encountering a speck of dust and detonating with the energy of a hydrogen bomb?

Yeah there's a 90 degree phase shift as things continue to cool off, like the ocean. But that's also why id didn't start getting immediately cooler after June 21. If you remember, it actually keeps getting hotter and hotter for awhile. The ocean stores it up and starts dumping the heat back into the system in the fall.

The best thing you can do is get vaccinated. You're not going to lift or vitamin your way past this. There's a lot of Joe Rogen fans out there who can still listen to him at the gym, but they can't smell anything anymore. Womp, womp.

They can also be exacerbated by your genes, no matter your physical conditioning. I'm overweight and 58 but I'm vaxxed and boosted, and I've had it according to tests but showed absolutely no symptoms, and I work with a guy who is in peak physical condition and is a search and rescue and water rescue member of the local responders (mountainous terrain in North Carolina - they teach their techniques all over the world) and he's had Covid twice, and can't smell anymore. He was out of work for two weeks the second time he had it. He refuses to get vaxxed because, you know.

Motorcyclists need to hold up their end as well, instead of attempting to recreate scenes out of Mad Max on absurdly overpowered crotch rockets.

I'm not buying these "distracted driver" or "bikes are hard to see" excuses anymore until the percentage of bikers I see on the highway driving recklessly falls back below 50%.

In some states riders don't have to wear helmets at all, and many don't!

Motorcycles don't have seatbelts, airbags, or any kind of physical protection for the passenger(s). An accident that would be a minor annoyance in a car can be instantly fatal to a motorcyclist.

Add to this that some motorcycles have an extremely high horsepower to weight ratio and are favored by young thrill-seeking riders with little experience, and you have a recipe for disaster. Increasing the number of headlights isn't going to address these inherent problems.

I've got an angel fish that comes to the front of the tank when I get home every evening and literally stares directly at me until I feed them.