1. Agree. It would be deep.

Yeah, the atmosphere is a big issue (I had completely forgotten that tiny, tiny detail), but then even listening to the rover’s noises would be fantastic. A sound coming from another planet! As for the drones, they could be sort of balloon-like devices with helices. The lift would come from the balloon and the…

Maybe someone has already suggested it. So, if I’m stating the obvious, please disregard my comment.

I’m very curious, but I’ve never had a chance to try it. I’ve got a serious question to anyone who has ever eaten insects for real: what’s the day after like for someone who’s not used to eating bugs?

I fully disagree. By which criterion The Great Gatsby is deemed a classic, but A Farewell to Arms is not?

And I don’t even live in an English-speaking country. At least among well-educated Brazilians with some knowledge of literature, Hemingway’s books are widely known. If not through the book itself, A Farewell to Arms is known by the 1932 movie adaptation with Gary Cooper as the leading man:

Since when one of Hemingway’s most famous books - A Farewell to Arms - is considered “obscure”? Or was it a joke? I’d understand if you said something like At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien, but A Farewell to Arms?

I drink tea, so I’m kind of indifferent about coffee-related issues. In any case, I’ll make a prediction: there’s a 100% chance that everyone here will die at least once in their lifetime. Now carry on doing what you’re doing. Drink all coffee you want. I’ll keep drinking all tea that I want. We all are gonna die…

Thanks for the reply. I got what you say now. I was a bit thrown off by the sentence itself, as I didn’t stop to make all the calculations involved. 16,000 AUs is about 89 light days (each AU being about 8 light minutes). In other words, Gliese 710 will be about three light months away from us in 1.3 million years.

Oh, boy! I guess I’ve been in front of the computer for too long now...

I’m coming late to this discussion.

I love your mother!

“But knowing that a star is so close that the light you seen in August was from May?”

Sorry, I’m trying to understand your sentence. What do you mean by that?

I came here to make a beer joke, but you were a few parsecs ahead of me. Then, all that is left for me is to make a vow of silence.

Hippos are everyone’s enemies.

Senna was a brilliant driver - one of the best ones - but nothing other than that. He was a driver, not a hero. Piquet - another exceptional racer - came from a similar background (a very wealthy family). However, I don’t recall Piquet ever being a hypocrite. He never ever pretended he was defending anything other…

Thanks for the offer! Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t sell tea to Brazil. I do have some people coming down in November and I’m checking ways of having it shipped at a reasonable price in the meantime. So far, it’s more expensive to ship than to buy it. I just checked with USPS and it would cost $21.38 to ship up to 4…

You probably know because you seem to be a fan of YG, but imagine if Patrick Stewart were allowed to say “Tea. Yorkshire Gold. Hot.” instead of having to follow the script.

For crying out loud! Senna was a talented driver. Period. He was neither a hero nor did he do anything at all for mankind. He did it for his huge ego and his pockets. Nothing more, nothing less. And, in addition, he was a fucking “filhinho de papai” (spoiled brat) who always had everything he wanted. If not, he’d…