Hell yeah!  I’m on board for that take.

The sun’s inevitable expansion will start adversely impacting Earth’s habitability long before it reaches maximum expansion (which is the 5 billion figure). The planet will be hot enough that the oceans boil off within a billion years by some estimates and obviously it will stop being habitable well before that point.

eh, surviving 1 through 4, and 6 on Earth will be easier than maintaining a sustainable colony elsewhere.

I’m in favor of more Antarctic and deep underwater/underground bases too! I never said we should exclusively focus on space colonization as the sole human survival strategy.

Stone’s statement was that space colonization “will never be[] the key to saving our species.” (Emphasis added.) What is necessary for survival over multi-million or billion year timeframes are completely relevant when that’s the position.

(giant molecular clouds? WTF?)

I had to watch it in grade school

To me, her use of the qualifier “and will never be” suggests she didn’t just mean “short-term.”

What space is not, and will never be, is the key to saving our species.

That’s not the actual Dr Emilio Lizardo. It’s a troll who impersonates him (note that the actual user name there is “dremililolizardo”).  I flag the troll’s posts as harassment, but who knows if that does anything?

I suspect there are a few tens of millions of Netflix subscribers (including probably several million inside the U.S.) who care about Spanish, Indian, and Asian films, which is why Netflix is acquiring rights to those titles. If you’re not getting a better selection of films you like, try adding the disk subscription o…

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I suspect that in most instances it’s pretty easy to establish probable cause for an arrest if someone drives away during a traffic stop.

Yeah, the number of occasions I’m in the vicinity of a driftwood-based campfire is probably an average of once every three or four years, and I know to stand upwind of it, so I’m skeptical that my health is really being seriously affected by this.

the Challenger II’s barrel is rifled for accuracy

+1 for the immediate recognition. I’ve never seen it actually used before, but one time in early spring, when there was still snow on the ground, I went past it and there was a large churned path going about 2/3's of the way up the ramp, so I presume that a truck had been forced to use it in the previous few days or so…

Because it’s a really dramatic looking between the sheer slope of the ramp and the surrounding scenery?

Thanks!

Right, you wouldn’t want to swim in it or drink it, but I’m not seeing anything saying that it’s so toxic that you can’t safely ride in a boat on it for an hour or something to go out, gaffe the box with a line attached to it, and drag it back to shore.

I’m not tulleytwo, but there is fairly extensive body of research by actual academics showing that greater ethnic/racial diversity in a country reduces popular support for social welfare programs: https://www.google.com/search?q=diversity+support+for+social+welfare&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS757US757&oq=diversity+support+for+soci…