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That's because no-one knows what it was? She claims she has not been told what egregious thing she said in a now deleted tweet. Somewhat Kafkaesque if true. (View Post)

FPT: @cyclefree @BatteryCorrectHorse - summary of the "What is a woman?" supreme court case: https://knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme-court-to-decide-what-is (View Post)

Until recently, given our ignorance of other planets, we has a sample of GOLDILOCKS_PLANETS=1, INTELLIGENT_LIFE=1. There was a theory in the 50s? that planets were rare, we've now disproved that. Ass… (View Post)

My personal solution to the fermi paradox is that even with a "Goldilocks" planet, significant tides are really rare. You need a huge moon and the principal planet not to become one-face to… (View Post)

A total eclipse of the sun. Insanely rare even on a galactic scale to have a moon that is almost exactly equal in angular radius to the sun. (Some SF author pointed this out - Adams? Banks?) (View Post)