Precisely this. You don't want to land astride a branch.

As my parachuting instructor told us, if a tree landing is inevitable, cross one foot behind the other ankle and, for god's sake, keep it there.

Exactly. You'd think nobody had ever heard of a false flag.

Rule of Acquisition, er, Espionage #37: Always leave evidence pointing to somebody else.

On general principles, all my media devices (consoles, blu-ray player, TV, etc) are on a separate, firewalled, subnet. There may be ways around that, but why make it easy?

One advantage solar power satellites have over ground-based solar power is that they work at night. Atmospheric loss is nothing compared to the losses through eight thousand miles of rock.

Academic: We need to maintain strict layers people!
Microsoft: Meh
Google: Meh
Apple: Meh
Oracle: uh wha?
Dana: there is no layer there is only XUL

Shrek: Onions have layers. Ogres have layers.
Donkey: Cake! Cake has layers.

I wonder what the Federal Election Commission thinks of this. The value of those emails should be considered a campaign contribution, no?

>"Unlike in a real casino, there is no way to win money back or earn a payout on coins."

If you can't actually win, I guess it isn't really gambling ... it's just throwing your money away. It only feels like gambling. But even dumber than paying real money for in-game lootboxes.

But first you need a microscope.

On the scale we need to look at, we probably haven't invented the equivalent yet.

Liu Cixin was hardly the first to come up with that premise.

According to the Pellegrino, Powell and Asimov's Three Laws of Alien Behavior:

1. Their survival will be more important [to them] than our survival. If an alien species has to chose between them and us, they won't choose us. It is difficult to imagine a contrary case; species don't survive by being self-sacrificing.

2. Wimps don't become top dogs. No species makes it to the top by being passive. The species in charge of any given planet will be highly intelligent, alert, aggressive, and ruthless when necessary.

3. They will assume that the first two laws apply to us.

The Dark Forest hypothesis simply flows from these three laws.

In novel form, see Pellegrino's Flying to Valhalla.

I wonder if this troll, or someone like him, is behind the illogical anti-mask "but my freedom!" sentiment. What better way to reduce your opposition than to encourage them not to protect themselves against Covid?

Masks may not be perfect, but even a 10% reduction in the chance of getting a disease is better than a 0% reduction. (And the numbers may actually be better than that, see elsewhere on Slashdot today.)

You do know what that first A in NASA stands for, don't you?

(Aeronautics, in case you didn't.)

In tic-tac-toe, do you call the marks "x's and o's" (North American) or "noughts and crosses" (British)? ;)

So would that be lime, lemon, or orange?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Starship/