“the visionary mind of Rob Zombie”

I’m a technical writer. Being pedantic is my JOB. :)

Grammatically speaking, the two clauses are separate. What it’s essentially saying is “a mammal has been declared extinct for the first time ever, and incidentally, it was killed off by climate change.”

Significantly, it marks the first time that a mammal has been declared extinct anywhere in the world

Yeah, the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger. To be fair, it’s a marsupial, so somewhat different from a baseline mammal, but it’s still a mammal, and more a mammal than a monotreme is.

Ryan Reynolds *as* Deadpool will be the new companion .

Well, crashing down and/or up. Depending on where the break was, most or all of the cable might go flying off into space with the counterweight.

Quite honestly this headline sounds like the premise of some sci-fi horror film.

So does this mean the next movie will be all about Pandarens or something to pander to their biggest market?

Because clicks! Duh.

How exactly would a planet form so close to it’s sun that it can’t survive? Or do we imagine that it formed further out and migrated in?

They work to better themselves and the rest of Humanity.

No, Mr. Andrew, I expect you to die.

For pete’s sake man, you don’t gotta be like that.

Even just, like, a train going around the cylinder fast enough counter to the rotation would let people experience microgravity. Pretty neat stuff.

A laughable claim, Mister All Motor Is Best Motor, perpetuated by overzealous teachers of science. Simply construct Newton’s laws in a rotating system and you will see a centrifugal force term appear as plain as day. (Source)

A laughable claim, Mister All Motor Is Best Motor, perpetuated by overzealous teachers of science. Simply construct Newton’s laws in a rotating system and you will see a centrifugal force term appear as plain as day.

That’s why scrith! Tensile strength on par with nuclear strong force. Fictional, of course, because that’s INSANE.

Sure. If you fall from high enough, the ring will be moving much faster than you “horizontally” when you land. With rings the size we’re talking about, that’ll never really matter because of how high up you’d have to be. On a normal human scale, the centrifugal force in a ringworld acts enough like gravity that it…

To make a long story short, yes, you were missing something, and that something was the WHY behind centrifugal force.