Oh man, watch for pyros carrying any neon signs.

Saying “it comes down to y chromosome basically” is extremely reductive. The way minor genes are expressed can result in vast differences in biology.

That sounds like it would make for a great lawsuit.

If they were going fast enough for that to happen they would be launched toward the front of the ship anyway, and we don’t see that happening.

Space elevators need to have the majority of their mass higher than geostationary orbit to hold it up, which is 22000 miles above the earth. So I suppose it wouldn’t wrap around the planet more than once. And while true you can do more damage with an asteroid, it would be a far easier target for a terrorist group than something that far away.

Space elevators on a inhabited world seem like a terrible idea though. One terrorist attack and you have a giant rope that will wrap around the world twice, through lots of heavily populated areas. I can see one going from the moon towards the earth though.

Not really. It would require negative mass which as far as we know does not exist. And it would generate so much radiation in front of the warp bubble that it would decimate anything nearby when you stopped. There are tons of other major issues with it but those are just 2 I remember off the top of my head.

Do we charge car companies when their vehicles are used to run someone over?

RATATAT has been a favorite of mine for a long time. Love almost every single song of theirs.

And thus, climate change.

Because none of those (except hydro and geothermal, but those are both extremely location dependent) will deal with the baseload power generation we need. And don’t just say we will make more batteries, lithium is already getting more expensive, and there may be global shortages in the next few years.

Norway (iirc, or some country near it.) Has been making a large containment facility in a deep mountain cave that would be able to store a large amount of the waste. The waste is actually pretty much a non issue at this point. I would much rather we start making more reactors now while we still have a chance, than be paralyzed with fear that the nuclear waste is gonna be some major crisis. It won’t be, but the amount of pollution from NOT having the reactors will be.

Trees are some of the best carbon sinks there are. Far greater than any artificial ones we have so far. Trees last a long time, and when they die you can just plant more.

Are there any other kinds of historians? I feel like most historians can do their job perfectly well from an armchair.

And yet, the giant oil corporations lied about climate change and subverted efforts to develop renewable energy back in the 80s when it could have actually helped. They did that to line their pockets, fucked over the entire world, and have had no repercussions for it. Don’t act like it’s the people’s fault. A large large portion of the damage to the climate was done so executives could save an extra .1% of profit for themselves.

I feel like with what you’ve stated it is far too early to point to corn itself as the cause. Their are so many things that have grown in usage these past 30 years I’m not sure how they could confidently say it is corn itself doing it.

Yea you really don’t want it to be cheaper, because that gives an incentive for the government to execute people just to save some money. And in this society we know how that turns out.

Every breath you take has at least 1 atom that was in your mother’s brain when she gave birth to you.

We absolutely can use statistics like that because we already know that the variables for life to exist MUST exist because we do. There are 100 billion planets in our galaxy, and 200 billion galaxies out there. The chance that our planet is the ONLY one that had the conditions for life to form would be infinitesimally small.

We have explored an infinitesimally small portion of our galaxy, let alone the universe. We have barely even explored our the planets in our own solar system. What you’re saying is the same as looking in a drop of water and saying that fish don’t exist in the ocean. We have no real reason to believe that life ONLY exists here on one planet of the estimated 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Which is one of 200 billion galaxies.

The lack of evidence thus far only suggests that life might be more rare, or harder to detect, than previously thought. It implies nothing about us being truly alone in the universe.