The Luna atmosphere is not 0.6% of Earth’s. It’s more like 3×10⁻¹⁵ of Earth’s. It’s negligible. See for example NASA. Where-as Mars has enough atmosphere to stop much of the radiation, making it comparable to ISS.

Crazy low or crazy high? Depending on the model, there are some going for around that price on eBay.

It might be the bad guy in this one, too. At least, it seems whatever she does, he anticipates it and kills her anyway. And she’s not in control of it. It reminded me of Triangle. It also made me wonder if she is a simulated person in a virtual world run by someone who hates her so much that killing her once isn’t…

The Moon has no atmosphere, so is even worse for radiation. In general the Moon is worse in every way except distance. Even there, it costs more to get to; it’s just the journey time that’s shorter.

How would the link be sustained if she travelled across the universe and to a different time?

I’m the opposite. It takes me a long time to get to sleep at the best of times. If I were hungry, not only am I sure it would take longer, but I’d hate lying there for an over hour feeling hungry with nothing to distract me.

It is the job of the electoral college to reject candidates that are not qualified to be President. They should do this even if the general people voted for that candidate. This part of their role is one of the checks and balances built into the constitution to prevent demagogues gain power. It’s exactly what you…

They didn’t say Bill represented the masses. They said she represented the Doctor, and the Doctor counted as a power in his own right. How she represented the Doctor when she didn’t do what the Doctor wanted was unclear.

In the first film, the chap who inspects the egg doesn’t have any reason to think he’s in a danger that his suit won’t protect him from. I doubt an Earth snake would have got through his face plate, for example. He suffered because the face-hugger had magical abilities he could not have predicted.

Falcon 1 was mothballed mainly because there wasn’t enough demand for launches in that category, and it remains to be seen whether Electron will change that. A bigger rocket gives more economies of scale, so Electron is very expensive per kg. It hopes to offer flexibility and control. We don’t know how much people…

It sounds to me like fidget spinners are a benefit to a specific group of people, namely those on the spectrum, and a distraction for everyone else. If, as is common, a class has no-one who will benefit, then it’s reasonable to exclude the spinners.

There’s an in-game explanation. Spoiler: It involves quantum mechanics and a parallel universe.

They might be religious, and their religion might see us as heretical vermin, or souless abominations, and mandate our destruction. The notion that if they were still aggressive they’d have destroyed themselves is wishful thinking. Until we know more, METI should be considered an existential threat and not pursued.…

As I understand it, the second and later games were made by different people.

It’s still quite fun to play, but it no longer has the feel of being on holiday.

For me it was Far Cry, about 6 months earlier. It had good physics, too - I would shoot telegraph poles to watch how they swung about on the wires. One of the (many) reasons I disliked Half Life 2 was that the graphics and physics seemed over-hyped given what had gone before.

Wait - so Ivanka is gay?

Your argument seems to be that because it has never happened, it will never happen. If you look around, you’ll see why that argument fails in general. If you look at what is happening with New Space and reusable rockets, you see why it fails in this particular case. If it doesn’t happen, it’ll because Mars is hard,…

A run will shake things up and make you want to poop for mechanical reasons, even without the excitement.

Musk has been talking about sending a Crew Dragon around the Moon in 2018. That journey will take a week or two, so some kind of provision will need to be made. (It will probably be later than 2018, of course, but hopefully not too much later.)