well - that is ridiculous. don't give them any $! let's change everything to return receipt status only. the state or the Navy or whatever we are giving $ to - FIRST FUNDS IT and then we re-imburse when it is DONE and DOCUMENTED. I am sure they will come up w the investment somehow - just like it all disappeared somehow.
@pete_rizzo_ Just try to imagine the world changing progress that a quantum computer of that much power would do. No one would even care about bitcoin if this happens.
@DougKass As the value of the country increases, the debt must also increase. It is actually a good thing. This isn't a household balance sheet. This debt was never meant to be paid off. It just rolls to infinity.
**Yes, MickWest is correct here.**
This is a classic parallax effect from a moving camera platform (drone/aircraft) manually tracking the object while the platform itself moves. The apparent erratic motion is mostly the camera, not the target. Mick's point about post-stabilization showing a straight-line path relative to the clouds lines up with the footage—it's consistent with a balloon, distant plane, or similar mundane object, not exotic acceleration or maneuvers. Many of the recent Pentagon releases follow the same pattern.
@PirateWires@dodgeblake@AndyMasley Btw, the water used by data centers does not disappear from the universe. It returns to the environment unchanged and nontoxic.