Semantics? It is science. Forests can not only withstand frequent, smaller fires, but those fires are actually beneficial to the flora and fauna. With somewhat regular fires (regular being relative, obviously), the underbrush is burnt up and only the outer layer of trees is burnt (which we see in tree rings). If those…

Actually, we’ve started to learn recently how important forest fires are to the long term being of both the forest, the species that call it home, and the ecosphere at large. By preventing fires over the years, we’ve actually been making them much worse and much more catastrophic. Regular forest fires are part of the…

Exactly. One wonders if we will ever learn from our past mistakes and stop trying to outsmart nature. It almost always backfires in unforeseen ways.

Right, cause every time we tinker with nature, it goes exactly as planned and never has any unintended consequences.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but even if every scientist on Earth tried to cure cancer, it will never, ever happen. It isn’t some infectious disease we can vaccinate again, it is our own bodies mutating - something we’ve been doing for our entire existence as a species. We may get better at mitigating its…

I’d recommend not swimming in any body of water that is stagnant enough to have earned the name “Lily Lake”.

Doesn’t happen often, but this is also part of my morning routine. :)

You can tell this short is fake because they use full sentences in their ticker, instead of the usual Tarzanesque news grunts that actual cable news gives us. A real news ticker would read:

I’m so into this. I hope it picks up some steam.

As another noted, there is no other way to measure something than from the observer’s point of view. To be clear, when I say ‘relative to us’, that includes any satellites and explorers we send out into the solar system - so not necessarily Earth-bound, but definitely system bound.

It really isn’t wind in any sense of the word as we know it. Even more so than the sink analogy, it is like dust behind a fighter jet engine - sure the jet has some gravity to it, but the amount of energy pouring out of it is going to vastly overpower that. (and yes, this is also a bad analogy given that the dust…

Binary stars aren’t necessarily that close together to begin with, but even if they were, it would take an insane amount of energy to blow up a star. It is also important to realize that neither star was stationary before one imploded. Both were floating through space, one went boom and the force created (as well as…

Relative to us, as is everything we measure in space.

Booster Gold! I loved that era of Justice League.

It is likely not Google at all, but the advertiser. Google is a publisher that provides you tools to reach your audience. As an advertiser, you have a tremendous capability to finesse that in a way that gets you the response you’re looking for. Without knowing who was paying for the ads, it is impossible to know…

There is a big difference in what Joe said vs the SillyMan and actually Joe’s is more accurate. Google only uses the data it can collect to form audiences and doesn’t add in subjective human reasoning. A large part of what Google thinks it knows about you is based on your search history and not some societal bias.

Advertisers can specifically target men or women, and when you are trying to get a good ROAS (Return on Ad Spend), this is often a wise choice. I frequently target women and exclude men because women respond at a much better rate to the products being advertised than men do. No company is going to throw money on…

You’re all missing the point. It was an origin movie, showing how Superman came to be. In this timeframe, he has just started coming to terms with his powers and how to use them. You keep saying Supe never harms innocent people, but he surely screwed up a bit as he was getting a feel for this whole superhero gig. I…

Thank you for putting Primer up top. Best I’ve ever seen (though there are a lot more good films on here than I expected).

I don’t at all disagree that it is the most likely scenario, but no scientist would claim it as “fact”.