Yeah, but that by itself doesn't tell as that much. A lot of high temp superconductors were first synthesized in very tiny quantities and people later figured out how to synthesize them more efficiently, to the point where a lot them now can even be made in a decent quantity in a high school chem lab. And if this does turn out to be useful as an explosive (which requires it to not just be able to make a big boom but also to not want to go boom too easily) then my naive guess is that a fair bit of research into efficient synthesis will happen. It probably is going to turn out to be too unstable for military use though.

Sigh. You brought up SpaceX in a thread about the Australian company and said:

The point that you appear whether or not Musk or SpaceX existed, it is highly reasonable to for a first rocket launch attempt to be considered pretty successful if all engines ignite and you get off the pad. That was true before Musk and SpaceX even existed, and is still the case independent of whatever SpaceX is doing.

People have been trying to synthesize N6 for about a hundred years. In that regard it is similar to trying to synthesize tetrahedrane https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTetrahedrane. But people also synthesized cubane a while ago https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCubane and attempts to make it large enough quantities for rockets were not successful. In the 1960s through the 1980s there was a general tendency to want to have really extreme substances and use them either as rocket fuels or rocket oxidizers. FOOF https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDioxygen_difluoride and ClF3 https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FChlorine_trifluoride are the two most infamous ones, and both of those are really easy to synthesize, but just insanely dangerous.

However, one of the major insights in rocket development in the last 25 years has been that even if you can get a few percentage points more of energy out of a rocket fuel, if the fuel or oxidizer is really hard to make or really hard to safely use, then the difficulties involved just aren't worth it. Thus, the cheaper, more reusable rockets were now seeing like SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Rocket Lab's Electron use fuels like kerosene and methane. N6 seems like it would not fit in this paradigm unless someone comes up with a really efficient synthesis method.

That's all the more the case because twice as energetic as TNT isn't that energetic. Methane has a specific energy about 10 times that as TNT. TNT is really good as an explosive not as much because of its high energy but because it easily releases it all at once. So if N6 does get a use, it might be for making missiles and bombs.

There are now Amish who use motorized farm equipment with a diesel engine with an electric starter, but pull it around the field with animals. Those have not maintained their way of life, they just have some typically quaint excuses about why and when they are allowed to go around their stated belief system and still claim to believe it at the same time.

No problem, they will just pull themselves up by their respective bootstraps.

If it doesn't have the original style of guts then it isn't the same thing.

The feel is what's important, not the look. And, BTW "The Vortex M eschews the normal eye candy we expect on modern keyboards" is bullshit. I expect that I can buy a modern (in production, recently designed) keyboard as plain or as fancy as I want, and in fact I can.

Remember the story we just discussed here where the LLM apologized for completely failing the user? That was simulated guilt. What did it do for the user?

Which most people DO

The one thing is the other, because many if not most laws are now written by corporate lawyers and then handed to congresspeople for introduction and sponsorship. You cannot separate capital and politics under capitalism.

Papers make money with ads. You can't sell ad space if you don't have readers. You don't have readers if you don't have worthwhile articles.

So yes, paying journalists requires making money, but making money also requires paying journalists. They seem to have forgotten that part.

Apparently the customers know, because Nintendo raised the price on the Switch 1, but not the 2. The die hardest fans are claiming it's due to tariffs, but then it would have affected both consoles.

A mess is what we have now. It would be worse than a mess. That won't stop TPTB from employing robot police to beat human protesters, instead of employing humans to do the same job.

The problem with your laughable excuse for thinking is found in the word "willing" in the text I quoted.

Whether people are willing doesn't matter if, as you say, they are forced.

I should not be having to explain English to you.

Unimaginative and boring bot complains about being called bot and calls others uinimaginative and boring. Yawn. I've known teenagers who were more effective trolls.

You've got two free rental units in your head? No wonder there's no room for anything else.