>>2150587 Consider the possibility that there was an unseen battle of energy fields between FLOTUS & Queenie, with Ol' Lizzie being unable to stand the heat, so she moved away. Improbable but also possible.
I have done similar thought-experiments to deduce whether or not it is/was feasible, with known existing technology, to record and process and permanently archive all telephone conversations, all internet communications, all audible conversations (presumably intercepted by satellite or bugged electronic devices), all video streams, all real-time video monitoring by satellite, etc. One can calculate how much data is involved and how much storage and CPU capacity would be needed. When I first did this maybe 15-20 years ago, I concluded it was not possible, and that only a fraction could actually be captured and then only in condensed form for archiving/searching.
However hindsight is a wonderful thing. There are bucketfuls of evidence that this vast amount of data is in fact being captured and processed and archived, and can be reasoned about or queried.
So my assumptions about technical capabilities were erroneous (even though I was employed in an ad-tech capacity in a high tech field where I had awareness of the latest PUBLICLY available technologies).
It has long been rumored that much more highly advanced tech exists.
I take the evident data capture as evidence this is true.
So if far greater technology exists than you assumed to be available during your course on turbulent flow and weather simulation/prediction, perhaps all bets are off and straight-line extrapolations that reasonable people (like you and me) make, will no longer lead us to estimate the truth of these matters?
I have to sort of climb down a mental black hole to guess what new technology might be involved. Supercomputing, quantum computing, holographic data storage, possibly the use of other dimensions where the "number of atoms in the known universe" is no longer an upper-bound constraint on the amount of possible data storage….
I do not know.
But now I know that I do not know.