It is a good time for Ron DeSantis to run in the GOP primary for president because if he does not make it, he can fall back to being Florida's governor. It's fairly common for losing presidential primary contestants to become a party's candidate in a subsequent election cycle. Reagan…

You say the SMR-160 reactor produces 160 Megawatts of power. By way of comparison, the new A1B reactor, 2 of which are present in each of the new Ford-class aircraft carriers, each produces 385 MW of power. The earlier Nimitz-class aircraft carriers each had 2 A4B nuclear reactors. Those reactors each produced 305 MW of power. The military reactors referenced above need to have their fuel swapped out after 25 years. After 50 years or so, the aircraft carrier itself is scrapped.

It is worth noting that without their navy Great Britain could not have fought and defeated Argentina in the Falklands War. That was the highlight of the spring of 1982. It is the British military presence, and that navy, that keeps Argentina out of the Falklands to this day.

Well, if the Republicans adopted more Democratic positions, they would disappoint many people. Those people would denounce those Republicans as RINOs - Republicans in name only. We see that already. Next, we would probably see the strengthening of the Libertarian Party by disaffected Republicans. Remember, Republicans defected to and created…

That's what Martin Luther King did. He escalated. Segregated busses and lunch counters and drinking fountains resulted in protests. MLK paid for those protests with his life, so maybe you have a point that he paid more than expected for his protests. But do you really think that MLK shouldn't have dragged America through the civil rights movement?

So beyond the craziness, what accomplishments do we remember Donald Trump for? Well, under his administration, the Tax Cuts and Jobs act was passed in 2017. The Federalist Society placed 3 new Supreme Court Justices: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. He fired FBI director James Comey and DOJ Secretary Jeff Sessions. He appointed lots of lower court judges, and eventually filled lots of executive office positions in the various departments. That's important, because personnel is policy.

"Being tens of times more massive than the Sun, these early stars had lived for only a few million years and are not around anymore." Then again, "Stars much more massive than the sun (around 20 to 30 solar masses) might not explode as a supernova, astronomers think. Instead they collapse to form black holes." Source: https://www.space.com/6638-supernova.html Is there a descrepancy here? If that first genertation of stars were truly so much more massive than the sun, then at the end of their lives they should have become black holes, instead of generating a multitude of supernova explosions.

"Does this remind you of anyone?" Yes, it reminds me of the summer of 1989 episode where the late Rush Limbaugh promised to send 15 bus loads of the homeless to Malibu, California, because its then Honorary Mayor Martin Sheen declared Malibu to be a sanctuary for the homeless. Sheen apparently figured that the empty rhetoric would come at no cost. Limbaugh showed him otherwise. In the stunt's aftermath, and Limbaugh never actually rolled busses into Malibu, I never heard another municipality declare themselves to be a Sanctuary for the Homeless.

Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human…