That's not particularly relevant to an analysis of humanity's clear *current* success, as is evidenced by our unchallenged presence on most of the land area of the planet (albeit at varying population densities).

Manufacturing at scale is a big problem

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The stuff is still monumentally more expensive than its competition, even with the price dropping fast, because it's new and we haven't figured out how to scale it yet. The stuff coming out of your dvd burner is not the high quality stuff, and low quality graphene is worse than non-graphene alternatives at most things.

Its use in electronics is also inhibited by the lack of bandgap, which people are looking into: http://physicsworld.com/cws/ar.... It's just another material, and pricing will dictate its use vs. less effective but still perfectly viable alternatives. While its new, this has an odd chicken-and-egg supply-and-demand relationship.

Why wouldn't you count them? I don't think this UK study had 13 year olds making AAA blockbuster games.

No, that's way too strong. Anyone thinking the Voyage would be on sale would be deluding themselves. Anybody thinking that "all Kindles" would include the Voyage is an entirely reasonable human being with an appropriate level of reading comprehension.

So?

Yes, he can. The only sense in which we can travel 28000 light years away in 1000 years requires that we invent time travel, at which point the phrase "in 1000 years" no longer makes sense.

It's a well-known result: FTL travel implies time travel.

Right, he pays for it too...so he gets to play by the same shared rules.

Which, right now and for the foreseeable future, allows you to ride a motorcycle, but not always at 154mph.

The idea is to increase generation from renewables and nuclear so that you don't nead fossils.

There is a massive gap between "not 1st in absolutely everything" and "worse than everywhere else".

Your first "fact", that there are only two biological sentences, is not actually true. Intersex is a real biological thing and is entirely separate from political movements and debates about essentialism vs. culturally-defined roles. It's relatively rare, but that's not really the point.

Interestingly, the AC's political movement may be in part responsible for changing the language to prefer the plural over just using male pronouns. But I agree it's unlikely to "fix" English's grammar to fit anything but a strict binary mapping of genders.

Oh right, and nobody ever does anything that's illegal so there's no point in taking action against it.

Also stealing cars is illegal so why bother with keys?

I think some people severely underestimate and downplay the importance of wind power inconveniences like this (and the bright blinking lights into people's windows), but there is absolutely some BS about low-frequency noise causing cancer. I've seen that distributed and it is ridiculous.

The question was:

People have given very standard definitions for which a photon has no mass. Asked and answered.

The fact that relativistic mass is a thing is completely irrelevant to this discussion.

The article has a bit more info.

Spoiler alert: the shock is calibrated to each person to be "painful but not intolerable", and it's about 30 cents a shock for yourself or 60 cents a shock to others.

There may be an initial threshold -- my understanding is that the question would be something like:

"Would you rather be shocked 10 times and get $7 or shocked 20 times and get $9", or "Would you rather be shocked 5 times for $5 or have this chick get shocked 3 times for $4", not necessarily giving a 0 shocks = $0 option.

Well that's an irrelevant aside.

You know that it's religions that claim knowledge worth knowing that humanity that non-members do not accept as knowable.