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The land requirement for solar should not be so casually dismissed. To power the US energy needs, you need an area about the size of New Jersey. Also roughly equivalent to the area…

To be fair, the main reason instabilities are less of a concern is wrapped up in that B^4 scaling.

"But do the media..." Media is a plural noun. To use it incorrectly this way gives credence to conspiratorial thinking about the press.

I would think (and hope) that, when it comes to the possibility of millions of deaths, ideology would be sacrificed to some extent.

What if one pays $200/mo for the HIPAA-compliant plans?

So what? If AirBnB or the property owners are not held accountable, the law doesn't matter.

"Well, it's not a problem for me..."

It's far more petty than that. No one actually has to be inconvenienced. The average American is just plain resentful of unionized public employees.

It's been like that for at least 15 years.

The government has been in the business of basic research since science was a thing. Funding from taxes is a more fundamental component of the scientific process than peer review (…

I've always had an odd pleasure at standing at the edge of cliffs. Something meditative about trying to overcome the feeling of unbalance. Think about it, you can be perfectly bala…

"Call of the void". I seem to remember Sartre saying interesting things about this idea. Something about exercising your absolute freedom or something. As far as I know, it's perfe…

Isaac Newton was my favorite imaginary person to give "tours" to.

About 7000 m/s on the surface.

> (no single cell in your body will live as long as you) Unless you're a woman who dies before menopause...

And what protest movement since has had significant success? (I include Vietnam War protests as meeting the threshold).

Care to provide references that support this?

One can read that as "The minimum wage isn't doing its job anymore and needs to be increased."

Institutions can adapt, and I'm fairly confident they can handle this okay. I'm more worried about the damage that will be done to democracy from a political perspective and the cr…

"Travelling much slower" isn't really an option either. By the time a craft encounters Pluto, the problem is that it's going too slow. It then has to match the (higher) orbital spe…

Some views, yes. We're talking about concentration camps for children, not monetary policy.

> There is no inherent morality. Not inherent; we have to make it so. Capitalism dominates, what, 80% of our waking lives? The idea that morality should only be relegated to the ot…

If that's the case then there's no room whatsoever for capitalism to be anything other than an amoral system we should be ashamed of. Vote with your dollar. You're allowed to make …