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"Much as I like hard and realistic science fiction I feel the most impactful science fiction is one that is a lens with which to examine humanity." This might be a controversial vi…

Heat water to produce steam, use steam to turn turbine. :P

We're looking at the best of the best. These athletes - even the ones that finished last - have probably won countless events in their lives and will probably win a lot more. They …

I would generally agree, but i guess the point is, extrapolating about production/growth/pollution when fossil oil was introduced probably failed to account for technological chang…

It's not that silly to model as historically that has also happened. To use the "peak oil" example this work also influenced, the technology of fossil oil reserves was a response i…

I guess if you keep saying the same thing will happen repeatability eventually you'll look like you predicted something. Even a broken (analogue) clock tells the right time twice a…

They are all, to some extent, a retelling of Pandora's Box

Its not the US but the date of the last well known duel always blows my mind (from Wikipedia): 21 April 1967: The last official duel in the history of France happened between Gasto…

I don't think you can "remove" information from A probability problem in this way. And even if you could there's no reason to assume it would zero-sum with the later information ga…

When I did a university security course a few years ago that involved a contest to factor primes those of us who wanted to be competitive had to buy AWS processing time...