Similar situation here, the only people I know in my department who’ve discussed feeling classic imposter syndrome are women. So if the guys do feel the same way, they don’t seem to be as vocal about it, even when it comes up in conversation.

That was kind of my point. It’s stupid to ban something because it’s difficult.

Harder, but far from impossible.

Agree on the boundary issue, but “the royal houses of Europe” experienced hundreds of years of intermarriage and inbreeding. There’s little to no evidence that a single instance like this relationship would produce any genetic problems in their theoretical offspring.

“I don’t think I’m a special snowflake, but I’m definitely in the top 90% of genes.”

When an astronomer says something is more massive than Earth, they mean that it has more mass, i.e., it “weighs” more. White dwarfs are tremendously dense, being a collapsed stellar core.

Well, it was very hot and very dense.

We do have Gemini North and Gemini South.

The mountain-desert environments in Chile provide less atmospheric distortion, less moisture to mess up your equipment, and negligible light pollution. The explanation is the same for the abundance of telescopes in Hawaii.