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I think this is the practical view, where we are talking the art of the possible AKA politics. We are stuck with the deranged bully, his adoring and fact-immune base, and his indelible impression that he is strong, authoritative, and gets things done, no matter what a monstrous fraud that all is. Whatever Trump's cognitive decline, it has not alas affected his grifter powers. Calling for Joe to step down seems like a viable course precisely because Biden is not Trump, but rather a decent and reasonable man. Trump lied his head off. It got less coverage because news outlets cover news, and Trump's bullying and lies are "Dog bites Man." Or "Water is Wet." I agree that Democrats stink at the whole party machine thing, where wise veterans gather in the proverbial smoke filled room and hash out the nuts and bolts of candidate selection. It's a shame given all the potential great pairings out there....Gretchen Whitmer and Ralph Warnock, Newsom and Gina Raimondo, Harris and Sherrod Brown, Andy Beshear and Cory Booker...hell, you could throw the top dozen into a basket and hold a random drawing and get a duo that would reenergize the Dems and leaning Independents.

Why is there so many failures occurring at launch presently if that was the case? All that elementary launch stuff would be nailed down pat by now if there had been continuity and recorded. SpaceX et al wouldn't be doing the mistakes that they are.

I thought "birth control stunts progress" was the winner, hands-down, in the Stupidest Comment on a Forum contest. But the PlayStation thing was a strong runner-up! I see a future writing speeches for Trump, for this young man.

The earth is not a living being, so it has no problems. These problems are created by humans to other humans, living now or to future generations. I disagree. Aluminium has pretty good recycling rate.. https://www.google.com/search?q=aluminium+recycling+rate "The global Recycling Efficiency Rate (RER) of aluminium is currently 76%. The RER defines how efficiently aluminium is recycled throughout the value chain." https://www.google.com/search?q=lead+recycling+rate "A Sustainability Star: Lead Batteries Maintain Impressive 99% Recycling Rate. As we celebrate America Recycles Day 2023 on November 15, it's important to highlight the remarkable sustainability achievements of the lead battery industry." Charts with various elements: https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+recycling+rate e.g. Lead used in ammunition, etc. is the margin of its use. It is highlighted in yellow on this chart: Of course, the higher the recycling rate, the better. But it is still impossible to achieve 100.0%. One can only try.

I guess Edison’s lab should have given up on finding a viable filament for the incandescent light bulb after a thousand tries. People worked on inventing a telephone for decades before success. They should have quit, though. And cellphones - the basic technology existed in the 1950’s. They couldn’t do a decent job of it in a few decades, so they should have moved on.

When is the operative word here, there is no realistic prospect of a 'when'; it's akin to a perpetual motion machine, if a respected physicist said "there's no law in physics to say it can't work.". If the private sector want to chase the rainbow, then all power to their elbow, I just think my taxation is better spent...

Let me break down the question bit by bit so you can google check again (which seems to be the only thing anyone does on here). We have the bar magnet in between two other components. Given the link I gave about orbital magnetism, is it possible to have the North magnet magnetized to ions running one direction as current, and for the South magnet to be magnetized to ions running the opposite direction as current? The two components in question are identical in nature. They have three parts, two batteries and one conductive wire connecting them. These objects are parallel to the bar magnet, on opposite sides. 1. If the batteries are simply a material that undergoes photoionization, is it possible that the conductive wire will carry the current if only one battery is illuminated? 2. If so, will this process either leave behind positive ions, or create negative ions as the electrons flow into the second battery?

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Stop making such a huge deal about the magnet being in the mechanism. You're too busy, collectively, trying to sound right instead of adressing the question I've brought up.