Which was sort of a great proof of concept that a Metroid movie could totally be viable.

Update: Outside experts have weighed in on this outlandish claim, and have said it is far more likely that dung beetles map the perfectly linear arrangement of cornfield rows to move in a straight line rather than any sort of grand celestial overlay.

Shit, understated those numbers. 78 square kilometers actually covers an area of roughly 19,274 acres...or, 30 square miles. Some upstanding commenter informed me on another article that “the average corn/soybean grower in the US is like 1,000-2,500 acres”...so, there’s that.

Thanks! That actually helps a lot (especially with average corn/soybean grower figure). According to the Canadian Space Agency (who worked with the kid), the site they “discovered”/marked out is 78 square kilometers...which covers an area of roughly 19,274 acres (i.e. 30 square miles...linked out to a comment of mine…

Well done.

Is 26 square miles a common and/or feasible size for marijuana grow ops (or remote cornfields, for that matter)? Genuinely curious, because I’m having trouble picturing the scope of that size. Feel free to use football fields or the Empire State Building as a reference point.

So then, 78 square kilometers (the purported size of the newly discovered site) covers an area of roughly 17,297 acres. Whereas, the site in the picture one of the purported experts provided is generously the size (judging from the photo) of 125 square meters (note the lack of the“kilo” prefix)...which is less than one…

Phenomenal job by the kid, but he wasn’t the first to think up the technique:

“Using an unprecedented technique of matching stars to the locations of temples on Earth... As reported in The Telegraph, no other scientist had ever discovered such a correlation.”

A must-read:

That was the singular word that immediately crossed my mind.

Will miss your voice, Charlie, and especially your passion for and deep analyses/insights into the writing process as such (sci-fi and beyond). Am deeply indebted to you for more than a few of those pieces (along with a quick response when I needed help with a comment of mine on here), not to mention establishing and…

It’s trophic cascades all the way down!

Another great read on that different type of fertilization, from Nautilus:

Could be a confluence of factors (loosely grouped): diet, decrease in physical activity, pesticides, lead in the water, pharmaceuticals, chemicals in plastics and packaging, “hygiene” hypothesis and overuse of antibotics (without replenishing the gut microbiome); budget-cutting and erosion of extracurricular, recess,…

Voltrant

Montezumasaur’s Revenge.

I think you started off with Zeno’s Arrow (and cover its central idea of motion not being “real”), but ended up conflating it with Achilles and the Tortoise (with the infinite halves). With Zeno’s Arrow (just copying from Wikipedia because I’m feeling exceptionally lazy), it states:

Makes a lot of sense (and easier to grasp/comprehend) if you broaden your view/frame and consider a forest/environment as one larger organism (made up of constituent “parts” like trees, underbrush, soil, wildlife, rivers, micro- and mesobiomes, etc...) - as opposed to our prevailing myopic, fragmented, reductionistic,…

New? Isn’t this sort of a play on/derivation of Zeno’s Arrow Paradox?