To say nothing about the hundreds of millions of people living in cities that are unable to plant a single tree. You should probably plant a lot more, to try to partially make up for what city dwellers can't plant.

Yeah, we do. And you know what else we do all the time? Come up with new words when we're tired of being pointlessly confused with ambiguous words. Otherwise, we'd spend all day saying pass me the thingy thing, you know the thing by other thing, no the other thing.

Yeah, it would obviously make much more sense to just send every tool imaginable and spare parts for every possible thing that could ever break instead of one small 3D printer. You're so smart! If only NASA had consulted with you first.

Why the fuck does everyone assume that cyber attack automatically means internet connection? Stuxnet hit the airgapped Iranian nuclear facilities via USB drives.

Unlike making your own money, it is perfectly legal (in the US anyway) to make your own gun, 3d printed or otherwise. Selling it may be illegal, but it's not like there's gangs toting 3d printed guns roaming the streets just yet.

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"Clear proof" it is not. Try again.

The point is that the sun and moon, especially the moon, are both their names and the generic name for its type (gp didn't say planet, btw). It's like Big Bird. It's fine as a name, when there's only one of him. When you go to his home town, and everyone is a big bird, you may want to find a better name. Yes, context will help. But if you're talking to a martian explorer, and he talks about sending something "to the moon", his context and your context are two different things and there is bound to be confusion.

Great advice. What's the secure url for Slashdot again?

Nice strawman. He doesn't mention or even allude to methodology.

And how many great ideas did not get to see further publication? This is selection bias, as well as absence of evidence bias, among other things.

He DID modify it, as you noted. What's the problem?

Cyber != internet. Stuxnet hit Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities through USB drives. Being airgapped is not sufficient.

That didn't stop stuxnet. If you mandate an airgap, then employees will airgap their files, and music, and cat videos, and everything else they were using the internet for, and USB drives become the vector. Ban USB drives, and there is no airgap and no work. Data needs to go in and out of the network, one way or another. Airgap is no replacement for proper security measures and training.

Here's a clue for you, boxcars and shipping containers are not the same size. Try reading.