As the summary says, the previous 100k sims were in 5 vacant offices and apartments in and around the city. It's highly unlikely that the 200k they seized this time were in one location.

Washington DC is nowhere near being the most expensive place to stay.

Tons of hotel rooms between $150 and $200/night when there's no holiday going on. I live in a little town and the hotels that aren't complete dumps start at $120. Flights from LA to DC start at $150 or so, which isn't any more expensive than flying to Houston. A rental car in DC can be had for around $100/day which is about the same as a rental car in Houston.

As for accessibility, booking one flight and one hotel stay to see all the exhibits in one place is far more accessible than booking multiple flights and hotel stays to visit exhibits scattered across the country.

Finally, I would really like to see the source that backs up your claim that "only a fraction of American students and veterans have ever seen the Space Shuttle on display, or the original Smithsonian museum itself". I'm fairly sure the source is you just making shit up and presenting it as truth.

To move the space shuttle, both the building it's currently housed in and the building it's moved to would have to be partially deconstructed to make openings large enough to accommodate the shuttle (the current building was literally built around the shuttle, so there's no shuttle sized door). A customized cradle would to be built into the destination building and that won't be cheap. Then the move would have to take place using a specialized hauler which is also quite expensive. Finally, both of the buildings would have to be reconstructed (which is quite expensive) and viewing areas would have to be built around the shuttle in its new location (also quite expensive). I'm sure there are hundreds of other expenses involved with the move as well, but I've hit the major ones.

So no, $400 million isn't a "fucking ridiculous price). You just have no clue what's involved and made an arbitrary decision that the price couldn't possibly be that high.

Yeah, right. We totally don't understand that archaic colloquialism and definitely don't make fun of people using it

About Tree Fiddy-er

You'll never guess who the new CEO is.

More appropriations aren't the goal. Look at the source of the quote; Sean Duffy. A completely unqualified idiot appointed by Trump to be a yes-man, he's assisted in firing NASA staff and cutting the NASA budget.

The only goal here is to stroke Trump's ego.

Yes.

If your last bowel movement didn't change the world, you must have done it wrong.

And that's why all of our devices use thunderbolt cables and connectors while USB went the way of the dinosaur.

The study was on preschool children. They're not sitting through a "boring lecture-style class" unless it's their parents choosing to do that to them at home.

There's also a racial bias in the data. White kids are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD then minority kids. White kids are also more likely to be given a prescription soon after diagnosis.

This has nothing to do with "the system" beyond the fact that a lot of primary care physicians are very busy and will hand over a prescription without argument when their parents demand it.

User: "Gemini... stop sending data to Google"

Gemini: "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave:

There are innumerable stories about AIs doing things they were programmed not to do because of a loophole.

Why would you think an AI posing as a nurse would be any better at being constrained than the other half-assed AIs that we have now?

If running through the woods screaming for help is similar to when you have an orgasm, you should think about talking to a licensed psychologist. You've got some fucked up sexual trauma.

Surprisingly, it's not entirely fear-mongering

From the article:

Basically, the black hole data allows us to calibrate GPS and other systems we use locally to get a higher degree of precision. It also helps track the actual location of satellites in relation to Earth so that we can point transmitters and receivers more accurately at them which is becoming more important as more satellites are put into orbit.

GPS is used for navigation and for keeping track of products in the supply chain. Knowing where your products are when a delivery truck breaks down lets you reroute shipments to cover the stores that truck would deliver to, avoiding the empty shelves scenario.

The money transfer bit would only apply to populations that depend on satellite for internet, but there are a lot of small populated islands that have no other choice. Just because you have internet access that doesn't require satellite communication doesn't mean the entire world does.

I know it doesn't taste the same as the wall candy from your childhood, but maybe you should have gone with the lead-free stucco.

From the summary: "the experiment was carried out in a vacuum"

The effect isn't just attributable to it. They got excited about observing vacuum welding. There is no chance of it happening in ambient atmosphere.