I think it would be pretty cool if we could urbanize food production. Turning farm land back into wilderness would go a long way to reducing our impact on the environment.
I don't know how you MDs/DOs do it. You give a dude medication knowing that it has a small chance to turn his stomach into goo because it will stop his brain arteries from popping like a stress ball in a hydraulic press. Sometimes without knowing how the medication does either thing.
Unfortunately there is much more to the story than a number on a line. Just because you increase spending doesn't mean that the spending isn't earmarked for items like digital projectors and virtual textbooks that have minimal impact on learning outcomes.
So theoretically if your spending was hiring more and better teachers and better HVAC and more/smaller classes then spending would and has experimentally been verified to have an impact. Especially if you also paired it with getting rid of teacher who don't meet the bar.
But as a practical matter that is not what happens when a campaign to increase funding for a school happens. The problem is not insufficient money, the problem is not enough skill and political will in how you spend the money.
Beware of the false equivalence. AI is not just a calculator that is automating a tedious and repetitive task. It is also automating away things like creativity, research and critical thinking. In addition, we are seeing more and more people use ChatGPT as a source of truth instead of academic literature.
No matter what way you run a math problem, the answer will be the same whether you use a calculator or work it out by hand. This is not the case with AI and the tasks it replaces.
You are providing confirmation of a hit to the enemy as well as the state of the area after the explosion. This is valuable intelligence used for target lists on future strikes. Such information is also used for determining air defense coverage and estimating hit rates.
Open source intelligence is a very high priority in modern war. Social media provides massive amounts of free intelligence. For instance, a few secret US bases in Afghanistan were mapped using Strava data from runners.
That kind of makes me wonder if quantum mechanics is necessary for gravity to work properly. Like, without tunneling, photons wouldn't be able to escape the gravity of the particles that they originated from resulting in a dead theoretical universe.
In all seriousness, I believe that the resolution of the diameter of the electron would shed a lot of light on the fundamental mysteries of physics and the architecture of reality:
Like, how far below the Planck Length can things go in practice?
What "New Physics" can describe interactions on those scales?
Is space fundamentally granular or continuous?
Is it possible that the electron is a composite of smaller particles, just as the proton is a bag of quarks?
And related to your own musings, what role does quantum foam play?
It's all extremely mysterious and tantalizingly out of the reach of the best conceivable instruments.
It has very little to do with Japan's geography. It's actually because Japan was too poor after World War 2 to implement a road system. The rail companies were also the land developers so the train service operated at a loss and were essentially a value add to the real estate development projects.
This type of development is called TOD (Transit Oriented Development)
Cattle agriculture is not cows. It's human beings farming cattle. Also, they are only regenerative under certain conditions. Cows are especially bad in wet soil areas and they can damage the area reducing plant growth through pugging. This can cause soil runoff and flooding. In addition, cattle will displace native flora and fauna.
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