The thing is that the party conceding here actually trusts the election process. And Trump most definitely won the electoral college.
Even if he ends up losing the popular vote eventually, it doesn't really matter. The system is rigged and has always been rigged in favour of land over people.
Canadian observer. Two things, and I think they're related effects.
Harris is a minority and a woman. The Democrats were convinced they were the party that minorities would automatically vote for. But what they failed to realize was that those same minorities are misogynistic as hell. Like, have you ever been to a Baptist wedding? If you ask them what the role of a woman is...
The US is also the only first world country where the birthrate is above replacement. But if you look at who are having children, you'll find that it skews conservative. And they're passing those values along.
California is still counting. Not sure he won the popular vote.
Does it matter if they don't honour the patents of the rest of the world?
Fingers
Step one: soap and water. Step two, a mild acid -- you probably have a citric acid based bathroom tile cleaner already or similar. Wrap it in a sacrificial towel or similar and let it soak in that weak acid overnight.
The legal and administrative overhead to do all of that would incur significant additional costs. We shall see.
Technically getting one surface flat is easy. Hell, it's one of the first thing you learn in measurement science (three plates and perfect smoothness). However a mirror isn't just about being flat, it is also about light reflection. And that makes it more interesting. In a perfect vacuum, you could do a silver mirror without the glass and have it be perfectly flat and not worry about oxidation. But the reality of making that mirror stay perfectly reflective means that glass or similar is usually involved. And then you move away from the perfect flatness problem (relatively easy) to perfectly parallel planes (significantly harder).
Furthermore, keeping a plane or surface perfectly.flat after manufacture requires uniform temperatures, which are rarely present in amateur telescopes.
The end result is almost always the introduction of additional error.
I don't think I've ever seen it wild. Very cool
Personal anecdote. I run a small business with a business partner (co-owner) and we have no employees. We need an employee. I'm personally a huge fan of employee-owned companies.
But from a hiring perspective, it is mind bogglingly risky for us to hire someone and just automatically stake them. Like, what if it's the wrong person? How do we claw back control? Do we risk dilution sending the company in another direction?
It's just so much easier just to pay someone and not have to deal with the complexity. And therein lies the rub.
Probably should be launched with a trebuchet
The tops of the clouds on the night side of Venus are about -45°C. So it's not actually glowing like the image implies. But in infrared, you can reprocess the colours to make a delightful image like the above.
Well, I know you're implying the greenhouse gases will kill us all. And that might be true, but probably not in ten years.