Contact was lost long before they reached the bottom. So most likely they did not.

Who ever says that “most stars you see are dead”?

This story has a weird 1980's vibe. I hope Larry Niven is still lucid enough to say something about it.

You took my words in the spirit they were intended

I am still hoping for this live remake of “Bambi”:

Unfortunately, two-party system is an unavoidable (even if unintended) outcome of the “winner takes all” voting system. Lobby your state legislation to switch to ranked choice voting. Maybe they will listen.

Then what is ChatGPT for? Just hobby uses, such as writing D&D adventures?

How many people have 6 cats?

Regarding Nordstream pipeline, this is pretty much what I had suspected for a long time. As for the dam...

On one hand, chimpanzees and gorillas have been observed kissing, so you are probably right — kissing is older than Homo sapiens. On the other hand, there are quite a few human cultures, most of them completely unrelated to each other, which had no concept of kissing until Western expansion mixed everyone together:

She seems to be wearing a weight belt, but no mask. Obviously, water-adapted eyes.

As usual, that it is all part of the “globe Earth hoax”

The novel Saturn’s Children (and a couple sequels) by Charles Stross takes place several centuries after human extinction — not from genocide, disease or starvation, but from hedonistic apathy. Why go through the trouble of raising children, when every human is effectively an aristocrat, their every whim indulged by…

Does Gizmodo no longer allow you to reply to the posts which are in grey? I tried to respond to the person who said that “something like this already happened in Libya” (no, even if the Libya story is true, it is very different), but “Reply” button appears to be disabled.

To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malevolence

I think the point is that dirty old men retain excellent memory

And so far it had worked for him

As things stand now, it is effectively illegal. Any civil space cooperation between NASA and Chinese National Space Agency is sharply restricted by what is known as the Wolf Amendment, first placed in an appropriations bill in 2011 by then-US Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), and restored every year since.

EV owners do not pay the gas tax and gas tax pays for the roads, so in theory EV owners should pay some kind of extra tax. The honest way to do it is to eliminate gas tax and to tax every vehicle for the number of miles driven (adjusted for vehicle’s weight), during annual safety inspection.

“I am not saying it is true, but it explains a lot... and definitely should be investigated”