The Great Filter could be one of many things: 1 - Very rare abiogenesis (the precise circumstances by which self-replicating organisms can come about are rare and/or subject to extreme chance. For ex… (View Post)

Possibly due to a significant national emergency. After all, not everyone trusted the double-rat Churchill, but they voted to give him massive powers as well. It turns out to be somewhat correlated w… (View Post)

Misread that at first, glossing over the letter “h” in the penultimate word of your first sentence. My eyebrows did rise rather precipitously. (View Post)

It does bring forth the question of what is one’s “hometown team?” I mean, for me, outside Abingdon, it would mean the joys of the Hellenic League Division One East (which is a bit weaker than it was… (View Post)

The drawing of boundaries is always going to be fraught, because they aim to optimise three different things, when you can realistically get only two: - Close to equal numbers of constituents per MP … (View Post)