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While scientists in Europe working on EU-funded projects are forced to waste their time on useless paperwork and "deliverables" (i.e. reports) such as "Dissemination & Communication", "Data Management Plan", "Ethics and Gender Equality", etc., Russian researchers invent new materials that can sustain temperatures close to that of the sun...

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Yes, it’s really very amazing what’s happening scientifically within Russia and China. It’s instructive to note Putin want 2% of GDP to go toward basic R&D while Trump demands NATO use 5% of GDP for weapons purchases. The great difference in priorities will be very evident by 2100, or even sooner by 2050.

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Man and Matter

Out of dust

and steel, sound.


Tone. Ton.


Color upon color.


Paint splashes,

stone hacked.


Canvas full,

constructive.
Composition hammers,

thud,
thud, thud—

splits the air.
Sigh.

Soft.
Wait.

Steel, concrete.

Baked.
In clay. Pot.

Spin.
Chemistry flames,

spirit sparks.


Hydrogen hums.

Diamond.
Nitrogen stomps.


Carbon pressed—black,


hard, unyielding.


Charcoal, graphite,

graphene—
one atom, thinner than wire.

Sunken.


Dimension 2.


Thermal towers,

blaring loud.


Nuclear power

glows.

Power might.


Waste billows.

Billows away.
80% wasted.

The rest burned.


Man grows.


Forged hot.


With soot in hand.

Biosensors

touch,
thin and sharp,


veins of time, tracing fall.


The clock booms.

Heavy as lead.


Time.


Heat-resistant metal—
glowing,

wide,


warm as the sun.


Broken.

Shattered.


Cracked, break.

Out of the mold.


Out of the mind.


Brutal creator,

builder,


fire in hand.


Hammer strikes.


Concrete cracks,


breaks,

idea melts.


Steel springs.

Glass shatters.


Shards.


Dust.

Thank you Karl, a poem for you. Inspired by the text. If you like it copy it, if you hate it throw it away. I’ll remove it later.

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Please let it stand for others to see. It resonates in its own material way!

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Russia discusses two dimensional entities that are one or two atoms in size while our country has spent the last four years trying to make us believe that there are more than two genders. It's no wonder why we have lost the technology race. That doesn't even begin to address how much further advanced that China is than what we are. https://www.unz.com/bhua/revisiting-made-in-china-2025-mic25/

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Thanks for the link to the informative article about China’s remarkable scientific and industrial progress, which is relevant to Karl’s post today.

However—and I don’t want to start an off-topic debate here—you might want to think about why you felt it necessary to interject the gender topic, which is completely irrelevant to your main point, is not relevant to the topic, and, moreover, reduces a complicated biological topic to an over-simplification. So if you actually want to begin understand the biological realities behind just one “common” [1 in 80,000 births] gender anomaly, see here: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/swyer-syndrome/#causes

and here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22246/#:~:text=SRY%20(which%20stands%20for%20sex,genes%2C%20leading%20to%20testis%20formation.

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At one point Putin rather skeptically comments on the feasibility of travel to Mars and correctly points out the radiation protection requirements for any life form and that these would make the vessel too heavy for the trip. The man is NO fool, which is more than can be said about Mr. Musk vis-a-vis this topic.

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Thank you

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Wow

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Well you can love Putin or hate him, but this is pretty impressive.

In the West our leaders struggle to articulate a properly formed sentence without the aid of a teleprompter…

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