Not intentionally, but a lot of things that I’m excited about are getting funded, and my personal job is going to get funded, which I’m obviously happy about. Obviously, I’d love it if NASA’s budget was 5 times this, but that’s unrealistic.

As a NASA contractor working on a 20 year old earth science mission I’m glad the budget is large. My job was in jeopardy but I think I’ll be safe now :)

Tough one for toast. You could easily increase the temperature in your toaster but all that would do is toast the top layer and by the time that toasted flavor penetrates deep enough to make good toast, the top layer would be burnt. Cook times and temperatures are a balancing act. You need to heat to penetrate the food without burning the outside layers. You could absolutely toast the top layer of bread in 5 seconds, but the rest of the bread will just be soft bread, which you don't want

The current grid could never support everyone having a 5 second boil kettles or a 10kW PC or what have you. It would cost billions to upgrade the grid to support that and doing such a massive infrastructure project would release millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.