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To your first point, I think success at doing something that no human has done before is going to be more memorable to the masses than failure to do something that many people have…

You are right about that. My post was answering a poster about "how would Columbus feel that we went to the moon but not to Mars?" The 27 year timeframe is an analogy comparing the…

Doing something we've never done before is a lot more exciting to people than repeating our previous success. Think about it this way: who were the astronauts on the first lunar la…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones In Micronesia there was a practice of carving massive "coins" out of stone. These "Rai stones" were often too large to move. Yet individual…

Well it took Columbus 2 months and 9 days to get across the Atlantic. He never made it to India, which was his original goal. The first expedition from Europe to India via the ocea…

I agree with you that for the cost we can do more with robotics, and it's safer. However, we also need to factor in human psychology. It would inspire billions of people worldwide …

Ok, so basically anything that has any forces on it will end up with oscillations. On Earth it tends to not matter, because those oscillations travel from the object down into the …

You can't just make something free floating bigger and bigger without introducing new issues. In particular, as objects get larger in zero gravity, it becomes harder to dampen osci…

That's kind of a high fantasy trope. "Blood and ashes!" from Wheel of Time comes to mind. It's like how they like to use different measures of time and distance. "It took him a for…

Well we know that homo species have been using stone for millions of years because stone doesn't degrade easily. It's not that wild of a jump in logic to think they've been using w…

All things being equal, companies want to sell as little as possible for as much as possible. We all want to make the most amount of money with the least amount of work. You also n…

Regarding fruit, I believe that article is saying fruit can be eaten regularly with every meal. You can eat it during the meal or afterward as a "dessert." Foods with added sugars …

I fully agree with you but governments aren't exactly the ally on this one. Local and state governments in particular are losing out on tax revenue due to WFH. Lower attendance in …

Personally I'd remove it from the National Flood Insurance Program. If the buyer can get a private company to insure it then the sale can go through. If the buyer cannot get a priv…

A lot of these people are stuck in the situation. While they can get flood insurance to rebuild the property, they can't afford to abandon the property, and they can't find anyone …

So if Amazon employees have it worse, will it make working conditions better for the teachers and firefighters and contractors of America? By that metric, aren't those jobs pretty …

Get reusable silicone bags. Most sources say they don't release microplastics. I'm not sure how well studied that is but my hunch is they probably aren't as bad as using a ziplock …

Why do find it hard to believe that plastic in contact with water could result in microplastics contaminating the water?

Most importantly, if you make a lot of money doing it while not recording the results, then it is legitimized.

I think that film is just oils from the coffee beans. Acrylamide is soluble in water, so why would it float on top? Anyway, a single coffee bean is probably enough to kill someone …

Other than having leaves of three it looks nothing like poison ivy to me. My bonafides are I have poison ivy growing on my property and clear it out frequently. Poison ivy usually …

Setting aside the taxonomical debate about whether Homo sapiens sapiens is even a thing, if a subspecies exists, then the species exists. So Homo sapiens are definitely not extinct…

I would have liked to see the article address this. I think it is pretty easy for an osteologist to tell if a mammal is mature based on the fusion of the long bones, but I'd be int…

It's a lot less spooky when you consider that your desk can hold your coffee mug forever. It's exerting force on the mug, but not doing any work.

The US only had enough material for 3 bombs. It would have been a big gamble to drop one on empty land.