Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Sun, 5/18/2025 8:44 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 18 May 2025 16:03:50 -0400, Paul wrote:
 

Physicists tend to disagree on things, as that's where job security
comes from

 
And each new generation has to disagree with the previous one or they
might as well apply for a job at Starbucks. Sometimes that disagreement
means digging up old bones and thinking they have a nice, fresh, meaty
meal.
 
 

Well, some things are "decided". Like Muons and Quarks and Color and Flavor.
But Dark Matter was a bit of a stretch. And we'll need some sort of
cohesive new idea to pave over that with.

Only fifty years until we have a Warp Drive. First, create an entry in
Wikipedia. Then... wait. Profit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive

   "In 2021, DARPA-funded researcher Harold White, of the Limitless Space Institute,
    claimed that he had succeeded in creating a real warp bubble, saying
    "our detailed numerical analysis of our custom Casimir cavities helped us
    identify a real and manufacturable nano/microstructure that is predicted
    to generate a negative vacuum energy density such that it would manifest
    a real nanoscale warp bubble, not an analog, but the real thing."[17]
   "

Now, we need a tiny crew, to pilot the nanoscale warp bubble.
The pilots name will be Stubby McWilliams.

And to think it was all done with cardboard boxes from the Appliance Store,
in moms basement. One of the kids in my school did that. Made a scale model
of the Shuttle Craft, in the basement. Roy, if you're still out there,
you must be at Alpha Centauri by now. When you make them out of cardboard boxes,
they're "really easy on gas".

   Paul