Naked and Afraid isn’t a dating show. It’s supposed to be about primitive survival. Being naked makes them more exposed to the elements, insects, thorns etc.

The Governor wasn’t especially paranoid. He welcomed Andrea and Michonne, and Tyreese’s group. He was less paranoid than Rick, who had just cast Tyreese out. When Michonne decided to leave, she became a threat, and the Governor’s decision to have her killed matched Rick’s decision to murder Randy in season 2. In both…

Bricken missed the cookie. That’s why he doesn’t understand the scene. He thinks she just happened to be standing next to it and then glanced at it. In fact, she probably baked the cookies specifically to put one on the grave, because of the dealings she and Sam had had over cookies.

The Saviors did hit Rick’s group first. Specifically, they accosted Daryl and tried to take him and everything he owned. Saying Daryl was the aggressor because he defended himself with the rocket launcher seems perverse to me.

I might agree that if nude pictures of her got online by any route, it might cost her her job - if the school had not already said, “subject of the photograph is not the problem”. So that’s a red herring. Your analogy about medicinal marijuana is also a red herring: if the school bans it on school grounds, then she…

That is a separate argument and you are shifting the goalposts.

They could try encouraging more anonymous forms of payment, such as Bitcoin.

I think you’ll find Following was first. It’s definitely worth watching. (I agree about The Prestige, though.)

I’m currently more optimistic than previously, since I started following Space X and similar projects. In fiction, Seveneves isn’t a great book, but it is fairly optimistic about future in space (at least as opposed to our future on the ground).

“2. When students were using it, with her permission, it had pornographic material on it. That could have been accessible” - That’s not something stated, or even claimed, in the article. It was claimed she’d let them use her phone in the past, but no-one claimed it had the nude photo on it at that time. Except you,…

On the other hand, since they had just delivered 50% to Negan, given a second 50% to Rick leaves them with nothing. Maybe Rick actually gets 50% of the 50% they have left. It still doesn’t leave them with much. And you’d think they’d want to nail down the details before making the deal.

He’s going to have to deal with Negan sooner or later, and he might as well get paid for doing it. That said, I thought he was wrong to promise he would return the hostage alive. There’s no way he can be sure of that. No matter how weak Negan might be, he could have someone guarding the hostage and prepared to murder…

And I gather this higher delivery orbit is to compensate the client for previous delays. Normally it takes the satellite a few months to get into working position by its own steam. SpaceX is giving it a boost so it can get into operation earlier, and thus closer to the original schedule.

Their goal is not to need to refurbish the rockets. No shipping to and from the factory, and no month in the factory. Just an inspection to verify that it is fit to reuse as is. Days rather than weeks.

Why are bacteria able to develop resistence to anti-bacterial drugs, but not to honey? Won’t encouraging people to drink mead lead to honey-resistent bacteria sooner rather than later?

Not the last. The most recent. “Last” implies no-one else ever will again, a premise I reject.

Me too (the first bit, not the on-going bit). It really bothers me that they reused the name “Orion” for such a similar project. It’s confusing, and makes it harder to talk about the earlier Orion, which is still relevant as a viable way to build starcraft.

Are you sure it’s cubic? I’d have expected an inverse square law, as for gravity itself and many other things, because it is expanding over the surface of a sphere and that grows as the square of the radius.

No Joan Allen, though. I’ll miss Pam. She really makes the second two films for me.

If it helps, it probably won’t happen. At least not with research like this. It’s relatively easy to make mice live longer because they are short-lived. It’s much harder with humans because we are already optimised for long life so it’s harder to find improvements.