Dan Lipka Web Log

If the country feels that border security is critical, then the Democrats either need to 1) clearly disprove that the current system doesn't contribute to illegal immigration or crime, or 2) create a detailed plan of their own to improve border security. There are no other reasonable options, yet they continue to do neither. If a wall isn't feasible, then come up with something that is. The cost doesn't matter, just take it from the military budget. The failure of the democrats has led to the inevitable crisis, which is that Trump will shut down the government (or hold the country hostage) until he gets what he wants. Shutting down the government will be very popular among his base that thinks the government is dysfunctional and should be diminished. I was shocked when he didn't do this last year. Of course if Trump was smart, he would say "I'm getting out troops out of countries we should have never been in. With the money I saved, we can fund the wall.  A

It is unfathomable, both how big the universe is and how small subatomic particles are. But how big am I? If there was a scale, with the known universe on one end (at 100) and the length to a theoretic quantum string on the other end (at 0), were would I fit? Turns out wikipedia already did all the work? 10 −35  Size of a "string " or 1  Planck length 10 26 Observable universe (100  yottametre s) Both exponents are normalized to be in meters. Although it may seem that we are somewhat in the middle, which would be somewhat accurate from the point of view of the string or the universe, but the actually middle is 4,500 times smaller than we are. Each additional number in the scientific notation represent a factor of 10. For example  10 −35  is 10X smaller than  10 −34 .  So, if I'm right, from our point of the view, the smallest thing is 10,000,000,000 times smaller than the entire universe is big.  Again, that is unfathomable.