It was dead before he knew it was rare. Why are you complaining about it being endangered; was he supposed to breed more hexapuses from its corpse or something? Read the story properly.

After he'd killed it thinking it was an octopus, some local chef told him it was a rare fish. That's not the same thing as a biologist telling you it's of scientific interest, doofus. That happened afterwards, and it made him upset.

He didn't know it was rare before he killed it. And a Greek chef telling you the food you've killed is rare isn't the same as a biologist telling you it's the second one ever discovered and of large scientific interest. And he was upset when he found out.

I heard that historians had consigned this entire thing to the rubbish heap of history?

Why would anybody give money to this?

The only awful article is this one.

The perils of pedantry. See, George can put it down to a slip of a tongue. You have no excuse.

The mass difference is really a result of the energy latent in atoms, not vice versa.

Thanks for your info, I don't think this article made total sense without it.

Thanks for that info, very interesting.

You sure showed me.

Fascinating.

What does ChR2 do, exactly..? How did it allow them to "effectively label" engrams?

So your comment made no sense, then.

Then please explain why you think somebody has to actively send a new probe to Earth whenever they want to make contact.

I don't think you understand the concept of a Von Neumann probe...

Why do you assume that it's an assumption?

There's a difference between mutating and evolving.

Not "meta".

You can see plenty of Caucasian pedestrians, and in the bars and strip club and so on.