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I really thought Evernote would scratch this itch nearly a decade ago (or so it feels). But it ended up being a WORN service (Write-Once, Read-Never). Would love something better t…

This is a ridiculous way of looking at things. Galileo was persecuted by The Church not other scientists who supported him. Fermi's paradox isn't what you've stated. Listen to the …

And when we had the evidence we changed our minds. Just like it should be. So the question should be why are so many people believing in aliens when there is so little evidence for…

Breaking Special Relativity is not some 15th century "oh, there's some lovely dirt down here" impressionable pleb. We have machines that can confirm SR to within ridiculous level.

What do you want people to do. I see lot of "close minded" people looking at the evidence and concluding that it's not enough evidence to conclude aliens are visiting us. It looks …

The people that believe that these UAP seem to think there is both a Fermi paradox and reverse Fermi Paradox at the same time.

A lot of things would be demonstratively broken if Special Relativity is wrong.

I want a whole group of scientists to investigate the evidence. I don't trust the military or Congress since they're happy to spend money on ESP or telekinesis studies and still no…

If scientists speak out they then get labelled as political. It's a lose-lose situation that scientists face. Misinformation is like junk food. It triggers people's endorphins whil…

Curiosity and not Smart: down the conspiracy rabbit hole you can go Smart and not curious: who knows? psychopath? Both: fun person to talk to at a party

I presume that it would more feasible to do a dipole antenna based radio telescope like LOFAR to take advantage of the radio silence.

My favourite how different the "home budget" and a national economy works is if you want to save some money for a trip you just stop spending a bit and keep the extra money in a sa…

In other words it's following a logistics curve. This is what every pandemic does: the problem is that we can't know when the inflection point is. Sometimes it's quite early on, an…

Absolutely worth it. You do need to book/reserve a tour.

One of the problems I see with CO2 sequestration is that it will be a nice way for companies to suck at the teat of taxpayers the world over. I'm sure Halliburton-like companies ha…

Pretty much anything by James Burke, either video or print.

You need infrastructure. You need petrol/oil to power the machines to build the roads so you can build the electricity to be able to build the internet connectivity that you need. …

They are inalienable rights first. It has nothing to do with citizenship. If I'm on US soil then I have (roughly) the same right as a US citizen. That's what so great about the Bil…

I get giddy with excitement whenever I see someone has rewritten/touched my code.

10 years ago?

One could say that particle physics is more a victim of its own success.

The opposite is happening. We're making the oceans more acidic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

Isn't that the whole point of the Senate?

It's the same logic as "If we don't use antibiotics in cattle they'll all die!". Totally ignoring the unintended consequences of antibiotic resistance in humans.

But the Dutch have it as well and no one goes on and on about it.