And I flashback to being told, directly, by my AP Calculus teacher, that girls “aren’t wired for math” when I came in for extra help (that I needed as a result of bad teaching more than my femininity).

THAT.

That depends on what the moral fad of the day happens to be when we clone them. If we cloned them in the 19th century they would probably go straight to a zoo or a circus. If we cloned them in the 20th century we would probably experiment with them. And if we cloned them in the 21st century we would probably have to…

The South does not consider its Confederate military leaders to be the equivalents of Hitler or Goebbels. Rather, it sees them at worst as defenders of the heretofore accepted institution of slavery (which formed the economic backbone of the region and thus provided for the livelihood of its white inhabitants) from…

There is no need for a conspiracy. With mass action the result is identical:

It is fairly clear to me that humans are uniquely suited to being the supreme species on Earth. Take for example this human achievement, and think about what it required in an evolutionary context:

Empathy Challenge 101:

If you ever found yourself in a fight with him, your best course of action was to surrender, beg for mercy, and hope for a quick death.

The IPCC projects less than 1 meter of sea level rise by 2100 in its WORSE CASE SCENARIO (read: over 4C of warming by 2100):

There are really only three main factors that explain this map:

My views overlap with yours, but here is where I disagree:

The difference is that solar planes have very limited potential, unlike the ICE planes of the early 1900s.

That’s beyond delusional.

WIRED gives a good summary of the issues inherent to a solar-powered plane:

You clearly seem to think that these solar “jets” would need to need to be 100% replacements in 100% the identical configuration and size and the originals.

Spy planes have been made obsolete by satellites. And this is not improving either battery or solar tech.

Ummm ... it’s true.

The technology can only be pushed to the limits imposed by the laws of physics. And those laws dictate that a solar-powered commercial airliner is physically impossible. The only feasible zero emission commercial aircraft would be powered by cryogenic liquid hydrogen.