Agreed. We will go. But the effort in building a colony on another planet. When that planet is not habitable. Is equal to that of building habits in centrifugal space stations. Using astroidbelt resources. Minus 1/2 the planatry landing and lift of costs.

It gives us all the plan b advantages of civilizations outside of one planet. At much lower costs.

No just an exaggerated tittle.

The article makes it clear. The experiment just suggest free will is more mentally taxing and calculated then random will.

LOL yep pretty sure anyone with brains called that.

Now let’s see what happens when NATO members try to go through. I expect him to make aoint of nations that refused to follow his offers.

And he will Def pick on all smaller non NATO members ships.

He depends on his Maga supporters believing universal healthcare is a failure.

Actually needing US aid has less importance then convincing his voters of the need.

Let’s face it. Nearly all left wing hosts and talk shows. Have made a point that Greenland will not give up universal healthcare to join the US.

So it’s important he has some indication that the US needed to provide services to Greenland to continue to counter that political argument.

Just like bombing Venezuela and kidnapping it’s leader. It’s nothing to do with drugs. But is instead about making the lies about drugs more believable to the idiots that vote for him.

Will be pretty pissed. If they do not do some serious looking into his motives while collecting evidence.

Those motive likely being convincing sex traffickers to provide for him.

Trump a dumpa.

Nods considering it really was not long ago (within my gen x lifetime). Tool use was assumed to be unique to humans. It really is starting to get harder for humanity to consider itself unique in any way.

To rest of the world the US has started a war.

In the US congress is to embarrassed to admit they allowed him to do so. Rather then impeaching and hanging the little fucker.

Was still typing. Sorry

USA Citizens have no process to throw him out. Only Congress or the senate can.

As for raising up and revolting. That will be as effective as errm. Let’s say “using a tiny navy to support oil tankers against the worlds biggest navy” IE it just looks like a protest. Note his move to send red state national guards into blue state cities. Dispite their violence crime being lower then red states. And his call to call any protesters terrorist’s.

It could be argued Civil war is just a matter of a change of words.

The difference is minor but significant.

Venus shows a potential with a need for answers as to how life would be possible. iE the hint is their but at levels of a compound that is more possible as non life then life. In an environment we have no idea how life could form. We do not even have much in the way of an hypothesis that allows life to have formed.

where’s as Enceladus is very the opposite. Compounds exist that we have never seen produced another way but life. Theories exist on how it might be possible. But the questions are from the opposite direction. iE Venus we do not understand how life can exist and need more answers. Enceladus we do not know how life can not exist. But have hypothesis with 0 evidence yet on how the effect can happen without life.

OK I see. Yes some questions were asked. But it was more about a possibility then any evidence of life existing.

Historically life on Venus has been considered impossible due to very high pressure and heat on the surface. But low (very low)amount of oxygen have been seen by some German scientists in the upper atmosphere. Due to this Some scientists have proposed that some life could exist in the upper atmosphere. As life is needed on earth to produce oxygen.

But the amount is so low. That it is possible for natural non life processes especially under high pressure to generate oxygen.

Where as we currently have 0 idea how any form of known life could develop in that environment.

So yes it’s seen as unlikely. But not impossible.

Wasn’t there something similar on Venus

No. Venus has no real moons. Just one captured astroid. And that has no history of suspected life.

Jupiter Def has some maybe life questions on a moon. But no organic evidence. So that is the most likely you remember. Also Saturn’s moon titan has been considered a likely candidate in the past. But no hints of actual organics.

This while still a long way from proof. Is the closest we have ever come to potential evidence of life in our Solar system.

Just in case you are way off. Extra solar has had some organic evidence. K2-18b has been seen by James web to have molecules possibly formed by life. But other option are possible. Just never seen on earth.

In general now is the time to be following such interests. Lots planned to analyse these sources closer.

divers are basically invisible at night.

In James bond movies yes. But most are written well before drones and very cheap thermal cameras.

It is pretty easy with modern equipment to monitor body heat in water. With the addition of AI very easy to ID human Vs fish both by shape and differing body temps.

But I’m no more a real general then yourself. So back to the armchair.

More to the point. Making a cheap phone is not an affordable endeavour.

Linux phone makers such as pine have discovered this in the past. As your first products are going to be low demand. Running a business on the profit margins of lower priced phones becomes hard. It seriously limits your ability to gain investments. Making competition with similar priced products insanely complex.

arrested on suspicion” in the UK does not evoke the same horror

It dose now it is clearly being used as a act to silence political protest.

Suspicious of malicious communication. When it is very clear the intent was to protest gov actions. And not to threaten or offend.

Is entirely about silencing gov opposition and in no way acceptable or democratic.

No. They claimed it was malicious communication. iE sent to offend or threaten.

Utter bollocks and a clear sign the police see censorship on behalf of the gov as a job role now.

Yep but are still applicable to the UK. As those laws have not (yet) been recinded.

Unlike the US. Parliament is entirely sovereign and has no legal limit on laws it can create. But we do have a history of supporting freedom of speech way older then 1998.

Post social media equivalent of Chariots of the Gods.

The whole article is about competitive hypotheses. No actual evidence either way. The press calling Loeb’s ideas a theory is bull.

Loeb"s hypothesis is based on a few odd behaviours and pure coincidence. IE it is heading close to planets humanity finds interesting.

Given how out there his idea is. Of course such an idea takes way way more evidence then the more obvious ones.

NASA lead scientist has not even bothered to attach a name to his comment. That comment basically boiling down to Occam’s Razor.

And being exactly what anyone with any understanding assumed of the articles raising this idea.

3 interstellar object since we have had the tech to see them. All 3 resulting is dumb journalists finding some scientist proposing a possibility and over playing it.