Agent641

"Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?"

They purposely try to spread it around as much as they can to avoid unbalancing the economic and academic equilibrium of the states.

They would save a lot of money by just building everything in one place, say, Texas or New Mexico, but the cost of running NASA, and the academic expertise required to do so would pull so much economic activity, companies, jobs, taxes, and all the knock on effects to that state that local businesses, residents, land values would all spin out of balance, and the states who missed out would have a noticeable dip in business and income tax revenue. They didn't need to build the Saturn 5 first stage in... Wherever, and then ship it all the way down to the Panama canal and back up to Port Canaveral, but they did it to share the load and the economic stimulus.

In Australia the spiders don't eat bugs, they mostly eat low flying birds and posties

"What sick man sent BABIES to fight me?!"

I guess you go to trade school, then you apply for jobs.

I just sort of stumbled into it at 17 though after my brother got me a job sweeping up in a machine shop, then I learned machining, then welding.

I was 23 and a welder and the elderly welders looked so bodily fucked that I pivoted to IT so that I would only be mind-fucked.

They are mostly quite spongy so they can collapse to a fairly small volume.

Coffee enemas?

Fetus deletus!

You could not pay me to go to the US. Id sooner visit Syria.

Nonsense, there would be a sternly worded letter to the ambassador, a UN resolution vote to denounce Russia (Russia would veto), and possibly some sanctions on luxury croc exports.

Photons exist at the edge of our dimension, not really a part of it, but skimming the borderlands between dimensions. Like a bug on the surface of a lake, it influences the lake and the atmosphere simultaneously, can be inferred by its effect on the lake, but it cannot be observed (eaten) by a fish without also fully entering the lake dimension. In this borderland state the photon has the theoretical potential to influence many dimensions, but doesn't belong to any one of them. Measuring, or touching the photon turns that potential into causative certainty where the photon is now part of our dimensions' event chain, pulling it fully into our dimension to the exclusion of all others and converting it from a probabilistic multidimensional potential into a deterministic unidimensional particle.

I just made all that up but it sounds pretty good IMO.