Convergent evolution is a thing, but I wouldn’t expect them to look anymore like us than, say, a bipedal bird or dinosaur would. 

This. An alien probe could have easily passed through the Solar System just 100 years ago and we’d never be the wiser. We might not even be the wiser now if the probe was pretty small, as you’d expect them to be due to the realities of mass constraints. There’s huge numbers of asteroids below 100 meters across we…

They found that an Earth-size planet needs to have between 0.007% and 0.027% of its mass in water for both continents and oceans to exist. Stern and Gerya then compared this to the overall possible range of water that planets can have, which is between 0% and 3.8% or even between 0% and 55%, depending on how they…

What a wonder drug. What can’t it do?

I hope so. I love the idea of the chopsticks - “Legs add another 10% mass to the rocket because they have to be so sturdy? Let’s just catch it mid-landing using the already existing grid fins!”

Can’t edit my original comment anymore, but there’s a really interesting discussion of the heat shield and tile issues with Starship over on one of the SpaceX sub-reddits (including an actual Shuttle tile engineer):

Would have been interesting if they’d thrown in something weird like “Oh yeah, everybody in the 32nd century Federation on a relatively advanced, safe planet is medically immortal now, because back in 2652 they repealed the restrictions on genetic engineering, etc”.

I’ll give it a watch. I sort of fizzled out on Discovery in Season 3, but this sounds a bit more fun. And it is not a prequel, which automatically makes me like it a bit more as an idea. 

I do wish they were also doing a flyback test of Super-Heavy instead of ditching it in the Gulf, but I can understand why that’s on the back-burner. It’s much more important that they successfully get Starship fully tested, since if need be they can use it in an expendable configuration - and the last thing they need…

Which would introduce further delays, the whole point of my comment. 

It’s good they’re paring down storylines and characters. That first season had a fair number of issues, but a big one is that they didn’t really handle the huge number of storylines that well. It can be done (the fact that Game of Thrones actually pulled off something like 5-6 different character storylines in three…

I doubt he’ll lose this because of the cult of retail Tesla shareholder cultists, but it’d be funny to see him angrily rage-quit Tesla over this and stomp on over to his fourth-rate AI company. 

It’s very satisfying that he got convicted of at least one of these, even if we won’t even find out if he’s drawing any jail time until July 11, and there’s always the possibility of delays through appealing it.

This is a deep cut, but I’m really hoping they show the Cannibal at some point - the gigantic, possibly ancient feral black dragon that nobody has ever tamed (and who may or may not have even come from the dragons the Targaryens brought with them, although that would make him ancient for a dragon). 

That’s the fun of it. He’s the obvious choice for who did it - so obvious that it seems too obvious both to us and Blanc, like there should be a twist there. I found it pretty entertaining.

I successfully managed to see both Knives Out and Glass Onion in theaters, and I hope I can do the same for this one as well during its limited theatrical run. 

The defense I’ve hard is that it summarizes results, and some of those prominent results are reddit joke posts. But that just means it’s too dumb to tell when a search result is a joke and should be excluded.

I’m glad they got him back - his star has risen a lot in acting terms in recent years since he was one of the leads in Westworld, which hopefully means that he thought the role was worth his time in addition to the money being good.

Aside from Tesla’s Chinese sales in general, the Tesla supply chain depends pretty heavily on processed Lithium from a Chinese company for its batteries. 

It’s the former. Pornhub used to have the latter.