Every human being on the planet has been inadvertently (and sometimes intentionally) eating insects and insect parts since weaning. We’ve been doing this since Olduvai Gorge, and in a science fiction future where all we eat are pills, I’m sure will occasionally ingest the eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of the Variega…

I can’t imagine what in Friedman’s column might have possessed the blogger to expend what must have been significant time and effort to craft this response. Friedman says our digital interconnection through social media will bring a whole new aspect to this European war. Yep. The Selena Gomez bit, in context, simply…

I don’t understand the point being made here. Unless I’m missing something, this comes off as a self-own by Jez. Friedman’s piece may not be the most insightful op-ed about the war in Ukraine, but (unlike the critique published here) it is cogent and fairly well argued.

If you have a critique of Friedman’s piece,…

Huh.  I spent about 2 years working oilfield support in Oklahoma during the 80s.  Every rig I went to used water based.  I wonder who’s tipping the scales?

However, that’s the big reason that such a low operating orbit is such a benefit, in removing orbital dead weight so soon after it can no longer do its own station keeping. The number of satellites could be 300,000 and the physics of deorbiting from that low operating orbit remain in force, and prevent a Kessler…

The Kessler Syndrome, as best as I understand, refers to geosynchronous and other “high Earth orbits” — in low earth orbits space debris tends to enter atmosphere quite quickly in a matter of months or a short number of years, whereas GEO orbits can stay in up for decades or longer.

How is it not sustainable? The satellites are low-cost, the launches themselves are low-cost, as what SpaceX charges itself is unlikely to be what it charges outside clients, which pay a very low price still.

DNRTA but I think you should feed horses hay and, like, grains...not pickup trucks.

*smacks A.V. Club*

To this day, humans use bloodsucking leeches to clean up wounds...

Spotify didn’t lose $2 billion dollars. It’s market value declined by $2 billion based on future forecasts of slower (not even negative) user growth going into next year, a pattern that also follows for Netflix and other big streamers coming out of the pandemic and has sort of been a part of the discussion for all of…

The biohackers create the movements that eventually become science.

I’m glad that they published photographs so that we can recognize these monkeys on sight.

A snowboarder copying what a skier did years ago? Lame!

Yeah, why didn’t they show off the choir voice or anything else?

Cheap on site batteries are not yet a thing. 

Another problem besides load bearing limits of roofs- utility companies. The way solar works is a customer produces electricity, uses what they need at that exact instant, and then sells the surplus to their utility company. There’s often no storage of surplus energy. If the utility company doesn’t offer a…

For anywhere in the southwest or plains states covered parking is like freaking gold since it prevents your vehicle from being a big ol’ oven all day.  Why not build covered parking in all those giant lots and put panels up all over them? Generate some angry pixies to power the grid and provide a value-added service…

Solar Panels are heavy, and big box stores are the kind of places that do things cheap. I’d wager most of them were not built to support all that extra junk on the roof. So you would have to shell out to reinforce or rebuild the roof.