Yes. Unlike ground war, two entire metro full of people were killed and countless more suffered long term damages. Whatever the strategic value, this isn’t a decision that I find ethical in any way.

I would rather go with it is illegal to leave a home unoccupied unless you stay there for more than X days an year, say 100.

Glad to meet other people interested in stem :) I’m a physicist who used to work in quantum chemistry (not anymore though sadly).

It is impossible to reproduce the wavefunction of a molecule in another molecule. Even the addition of a single hydrogen or electron changes the wavefunction. What you call molecular orbitals of benzene are the approximate solutions of stationary state Schrodinger equation that have somewhat fixed energy. They even change during the course of a reaction.

It is impossible to recreate that without the exact same molecule. Instead what the authors have done is to reproduce something that has similar shape and symmetry as the homo/lumo of benzene. It will never react like benzene. Instead what it will do is to let us study how an electron would behave on benzene using all the awesome tools you have available for surfaces which is pretty amazing.

I skimmed through the linked science article. It seems like authors arranged cesium atoms on a metal surface to create localised molecular orbitals on the surface that were similar to orbitals in benzene.

It seems you can essentially simulate what an electron would do in a benzene like system. I don’t think it will be a strict 1 to 1 correspondence though, but rather a sort of abstract equivalent in terms of structure and symmetry.

The thought that Debian will continue into the future feels comforting. How cool it would be if in 5000AD kids on Mars or Europa are running Debian 100?