The portable nuclear generators in the Voyager Space probes have clocked up nearly 47 years of service with zero maintenance. You wouldn't even need an engineer visit. (View Post)

Interesting. I sometimes find myself using "they" as a singular even when I do know the gender of the person I'm talking about and it feels perfectly natural to me, and it happens with… (View Post)

I read it more humourously, as a passage that works with every future and past Prime Minister, regardless of gender. (View Post)

Some sort of temporary camera trap and sufficient enforcement action instead? All too often innocent people are being made to suffer due to poorly thought through attempts to deal with a troublesome … (View Post)

I'd imagine that managing a classroom of teenagers was hard enough, but managing a classroom of hungry teenagers must be impossible. (View Post)