“Genetic bottleneck” is my new favorite description for such people, thank you!

If it stops Ajit from making another video, it’ll be a blessing in disguise.

travels slower than freeway traffic on the surface

Mars may gain a rocky ring when Phobos eventually gets pulled apart in another 50 million years or so. We may get our own ring of space junk.

Yeah, I like it when Woz makes an occasional appearance back in the day.

Are you someone very famous and well liked?

I saw this recently. Second from top on the right is where they’re filming the moon landing.

WMD or go home.

Taiwan: no data available?

I don’t think it’s dementia. It’s all about “how can I keep all the attention on me?”

I was responding to “Shouldn’t the trend be going upwards?” and it was to illustrate “no, not always”.

In 1968, NASA can send people to lunar orbit (and get them back safely). In 1981, NASA can send people to low earth orbit. In 2018, NASA cannot send anyone into space. Sometimes it’s like that.

There will be parts of the planet that’s still habitable. They’ll own it.

In case you haven’t heard the story of Hachiko the Akita that waited for over 9 years at a subway station for his master, who died of a heart attack, to return:

Thank you.

didn’t seem to phase CEO Elon Musk.

I think we’re hearing the birth cries of an artificial intelligence trained on input from Reddit.

Don’t worry. Cthulhu will rise again.

Why bother? Was his work that groundbreaking? The main difference in what he did is that he went ahead and had the embryos implanted and eventually the babies born.