You’re not wrong, but something like this is well within the capabilities of private companies like ArianeSpace or SpaceX. Also, the stakes are just a city-killer asteroid, failure is entirely an option when there’s plenty of time to evacuate the impact zone.

In short, we already have a plan. DART proved that we can do it, and off-the-shelf rockets like the Falcon 9 have plenty of performance. All that remains is to wait until early 2028 when we get a proper fix on the asteroid, then we’ve got 7 or 8 months to prep and launch a mission before the window of opportunity closes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5IXX4p2d0

Well, yeah. Deflecting an impact that’s scheduled 4 years in the future wouldn’t take much force and the DART mission proved that it’s achievable. We can just do that again in the months between when the asteroid comes back around and when it flies past us.

We’ll get a better idea of whether it’ll hit or not in 2028 the next time it passes close to earth, which will give us plenty of time to respond before it might hit in 2032.

Americans are the most domesticated and propagandized culture on the planet. I gave up on the ideal of mass consciousness after Occupy, because the billionaires who own this country have spent generations dumbing it down to the point that almost nobody cares. We’re not seeing mass protests of the kind you describe untill things get very bad for a lot of people.

Yep, can’t imagine it any other way, though. Furries and drama go together like… well, furries and other furries. XD

As best as we can figure it, anyway! =3

Mine.

I’m polyamorous and currently live with three of my boyfriends. I’m also a partner to a married couple that lives halfway across the country.

Neither group likes the other.

I’m also casually involved with two people I met online (but never in person) and an old high school / college fling that passes through town every few months on the way to visit his family.

Things are especially complicated because I’m 19 months into hormone therapy as an enby, which some of my partners are ecstatic about for me while one disapproves because he’s not “into” trans people.

Note: this is also just a surface detail. There’s personal stuff about more than one of my partners that amplifies the complicatedness, but those aren’t my stories to tell.

Seems to me that the most generous interpretation would be the preponderance of Oracle’s DBs in the government, and Musk being pedantic since they aren’t literally called “SQL” like MySQL, MSSQL, or PostgreSQL (even though most Oracle DBs still fall into that category).

Yes.

That’s what I said…

Your figures are reversed.

Not unless the data associated with that SSN is itself inconsistent.

For example, when multiple people are fraudulently using the same SSN, the fraud monitoring DB would neccessarily need to record several entries with the same SSN.

Indeed, that’s a possibility, but I’m not privy to the structure of the social security administration’s databases so I couldn’t say if it was indeed the case.

The deeper point being, if the government has any databases at all, then some form of Structured Query Language is being used to read and write it.

To oversimplify, there are two basic kinds of databases: SQL (Structured Query Language, usually pronounced like “sequel” or spelled aloud) and noSQL (“Not Only SQL”).

SQL databases work as you’d imagine, with tables of rows and columns like a spreadsheet that are structured according to a fixed schema.

NoSQL includes all other forms of databases, document-based, graph-based, key-value pairs, etc.

The former are highly consistent and efficient at processing complicated queries or recording transactions, while the latter are more flexible and can be very fast at reads/writes but are harder to keep in sync as a result.

All large orgs will have both types in use for different purposes; SQL is better for banking needs where provable consistency is paramount, NoSQL better for real-time web apps and big data processing that need minimal response times and scalable capacity.

That Musk would claim the government doesn’t use SQL immediately betrays him as someone who is entirely unfamiliar with database administration, because SQL is everywhere.

Look at the bright side, the Evil Empire is over! America is done. Cooked. The next few years are gonna suck a lot but the deteriorating conditions will finally push Americans into a second revolution.

Eh, builds do take a while but the performance has been sufficient for my needs until very recently. I’ll probably upgrade soon.

Heck, my current desktop is still an old third-gen i-series, lol~

If Trump gets to redefine reality as he sees fit then we do too.

See you on the other side, friendo.