Useless fact of the day - from yesterday’s astronomy lecture on the ship: If it were possible for an airliner to fly continuously above the surface of the largest known star, it would take 1,100 year… (View Post)

A banner has appeared saying they are having some data problems Meanwhile, the October ‘74 election - the first I remember, and the start of my interest and involvement in politics - was fifty years … (View Post)

That’s my feeling, too, based on little more than political instinct having experienced a fair few elections in all capacities during my lifetime. The many Americans on the ship are much more willing… (View Post)

You don’t need to invent a Santa in the sky to understand that killing other people is bad. (View Post)

And there’s the answer, of course, to yesterday’s question about why so many more Dems are sending papers back early, if they can. They tend to be the ones living in the larger, urban counties. (View Post)