Shared this to SME as it fits in over there too with the focus. Great article!

Look at you with your facts & statistics, and a total lack of CAPS LOCK. Don't you know that informed & civil discourse has no place on teh intarwebz?

I'm not so much curious about the de-glaciation part, more the additional stress as the ocean rushes in and the glacier floating above, and how that would affect sub-surface magma pockets.

Obligatory (I mean, I'd cite DEVO's much better "Space Junk" but I already did that earlier this week.):

It's not stranded, think of it more as an unplanned permanent relocation to a sub ideal habitat.

It is so nice to know I'm not the only one with this ...minor... difficulty. Just means to be a good kerbalnaut, one must develop their coordination and leaping skillz, or be stranded forever on a distant planetoid.

Travelling north from there,you will eventually bump into the megalithic Gate of The Sun. Nobody knows exactly how or even why the Tiwanaku built this thing.

One of my jobs out in that mythical "real world" is to calculate the odds of death by various phenomena. The shortest possible version is that, globally, most societies agree that reducing odds of death by terrestrial natural catastrophe to 1:1 million per year (or, a few thousand deaths on the whole planet per year)…

Adultism (prejudice and discrimination against young people) is one of the few acceptable forms of oppression and discrimination left in our society and I'm seeing it rampant here. Knocking/mocking this person's experience ("it's only been two years, pah!"), 'oldsplaining' (like mansplaining, but when an older person…