To start with, interstellar flight doesn’t exist yet. So we have no way to talk about the limits of the technology. So complaining about the parameters of the problem is to miss the point. We can tak… (View Post)

And vaccines meant an end to lockdowns… (View Post)

Yes None of the tests and procedures was “rushed” or “omitted” This is another anti-vax fairy tale. I wonder when we will get to the dead BA pilots? (View Post)

Some people find scientific truth scary, and feel it dis-empowers them. Staging a performance of the story The Cold Equations, as a play at university was fascinating in this respect. (View Post)

According to the oil company* I worked for, petrol is - Toxic - Inflammable - Explosive - Carcinogenic - Suspected of being a mutagen It was a common joke that if petrol was invented today, there was… (View Post)