Remember when we had the Posse Comitatus Act? The law that makes doing this unambiguously illegal?

Other exchanges? No idea, sorry. I never held much; I just sold everything and transferred it back to my regular bank account.

The moment I saw the banners on that stage, I started the process of closing my Coinbase account. Those corrupt fuckers can rot.

You’re saying that the rat in an icing bag meme is real!?

It’s basically gambling. Trump has lots of experience driving his casinos into bankruptcy.

There’s an easy way to settle this. Just bring him back to the United States and take some photos of his hands.

Make America Great Depression Again

Strictly speaking, you are correct. The key assumption for my statement above is that both objects are black-body radiators.

In practical terms, it still ain’t happening when the light source is a bunch of fireflies.

Aside: Lasers are a really weird case. The population inversion required for stimulated emission is basically the opposite of a classic thermal equilibrium. By some definitions, they are so hot their “temperature” wraps around to negative (i.e., less than zero Kelvin). That factoid took me a while to wrap my head around.

Unfortunately, this idea isn’t going to work.

Lenses and mirrors can’t focus a diffuse source to a sharp point. They are also reciprocal; any light that can move one way through an optical system can also move the other way. As a result, you can’t use a lens or mirror to heat something beyond the temperature of the light source. The net flow of energy is always from the hot thing to the cold thing.

For the sun, that limit is almost 6000K, so you can do some damage. For fireflies, not so much.

Hahaha no. Last time I went to the DMV for anything (CA), I had an “appointment” and it still took two hours waiting in line.