... to assert that clearly, China builds the world's best glass-floor bridges, the only ones that provide a real thrill: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/a...

Is it "tasteless" to depict reality? People complain often about the "filter bubbles" that so many live in, but when reality is not to their taste, they suddenly want everyone to live in one. LiveLeak provided a much more truthful picture of reality than the millions of wanna-be-Internet-stars do on their Instagram, TikTok or Youtube channels.

Please re-insert the "mu"-characters that are missing before the "ops" in two places.

Please notice that of course in front of "op-caches" there was a "mu"-character, also in front of the "ops" in the first sentence.

If the Slashdot software cannot be fixed to support other than ASCII characters, you may want to work-around by using "micro" instead of the "mu"-characters.

Now the court will need to decide who gets the control over the 5G-powered mind-control chips :-)

... even the "Fyre" festival managed to do that part just fine. It's newsworthy when they actually begin to shoot tourists into space.

Corona viruses keep the second position in the list of the "most common cold" viruses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Only ~40% of the recently sequenced samples in India were B.1.167 (which you probably meant), so even if that (not so new, first found in Oct 2020) variant was absent from India, the 60% remaining infections would constitute a very large recent growth.

Who gives a "Startup" company 2,000,000,000 USD to start with?

But that still does not mean a sun-lit roof stays "below ambient temperature" during the day. Radiation cooling can work at night, this has been subject to research before - https://www.sciencedirect.com/... - but during the day it is still much more efficient to insulate your building from the hot surface of the root if you want to keep the building cool.

Barium Sulphate is routinely used as a contrast enhancer for colon x-rays. So I would assume it is reasonably safe when ingested.

You have failed to do the math: The inventors claim their paint could keep 10kW of heat energy away from a 92 m^2 roof in bright noon daylight. But at the same time, that daylight would will deliver ~ 82 kW heat energy to the same roof. Their ultra-white roof will be colder only compared to the temperature of a conventional roof irradiated the same, not colder than some ambient-average-temperature block of concrete sitting in the shadow.
So no, insulating a hot roof from a cooler building is still the much better idea.

Putting photo-voltaic cells on both huge objects would certainly be a much more efficient way to harvest usable energy from the sunlight.

With so many more people bored out at home, no wonder the new consoles sell great.

I guess Sony is already scheduling the PS6 release for shortly before Sars-Cov-3.