Your claim sounds rather specious to me. Can you back it with evidence? Those moisture particles are it's support environment. To separate the two would be like removing the oxygen from the room. You're not going to last long.

Given the fact that you can be asymptomatic yet contagious, and Japan, China, et al having very high population densities I'd say they're doing pretty well at this point. Infection rates are still measured in the 10's of thousands, yet Wuhan has a population of 11 million for example.

Sort of like how vaccines protect others, especially vulnerable populations. But, just as with vaccines, voluntary compliance of sick people wearing face masks--in the US at least--just doesn't happen.

Of what helium? Near-zero (Kelvin) perhaps...?

While I cannot discount Microsoft donating to campaigns. Trump is very well known for his hatred of Jeff Bezos. Trump is very well known for being petty and vindictive. It's pretty easy to imagine less than rational factors are in play.

Congress has decided that it gets to tell NASA what to do with monies allocated. Increasing one pot of money doesn't change the fact that it's emptying out another one. Earth sciences are one of this administrations favorite targets (presumably since it challenges the party line about the environment), robotic operations are less glorious than throwing bags of meat into orbit so, we need to de-prioritize that a well despite being substantially more cost effective.

I'm sure there are shenanigans involved, but it was my understanding that fundamentally increases are principally inflation adjustments. So much like middle income wages, a 2% annual wage increase would in actual be a 1% wage reduction against an inflation rate of 3%.

That sounds good, but it's a bit more concerning in light of Congress abrogating their responsibility as a check against the executive. The Senate in particular has quickly become a de factor rubber stamp to any and all executive orders and back room dealings.

Sounds great, except why the boost defense spending well in excess of the "cuts?" Want to balance the budget, perhaps the MIC would be a better location given that with the exception of old people social supports, all the other programs amount to rounding errors.

Ultimately it'll be rectified against the Millennials after the Boomers bankrupt us with their social supports that are strangely not socialistic except when applied to anyone not them. But as long as they keep us distracted with their wars maybe we won't notice until they're gone.

I suspect global food, and water security would cost substantially less than the military hardware to exterminate those fighting for lack of the former.

Wouldn't that cut into Trump's base?

From what I understand, in an effort to reduce cost and time to market Boeing gamed the system. Specifically they attempted to navigate FAA regulations in such a way as to avoid entering any regulatory gates that would have caused the 737 Max to be classified as a new type of plane rather than a revision. To admit simulator training was a good idea or even necessary would have weakened their case; possibly drawn additional scrutiny.

That someone is an absolute friggin genius!

Of course the lawyers will want to expand the size of the pie...