No ambiguity here. No, sir.

Why the $%#&@*! does this even rate a /. story? The rates are so minuscule that they matter not at all in the Earth's geologic story.

Is it fair to stereotype Republican goals in space as being prestige-based, whereas Democrats are more often aimed at pragmatic applications (with Kennedy being the obvious exception)? Not that there is anything wrong with either approach; they just tend to be at odds in a tight budgetary environment.

OTOH, too many contributors post ill-considered, unsourced trash that just increases the general information entropy. Bravo to those who clean out the rubbish and focus on improving quality.

Correct. Iron cores are associated with Type Ib/Ic & Type II core-collapse supernovae. Type Ia supernovae typically originate with carbon-oxygen white dwarfs that have only their primordial iron abundance.

It would be so bad if opinionated knobs keep showing up with a point-of-view agenda to push, which requires a so-called "cabals" of editors to form and keep a watch for repeated bias. As an example: creationist editors seeking to espouse their non-scientific, minority views on everybody regarding the age of the Earth and evolution. The minute the edit is removed because of non-compliance with Wikipedia policy on such matters, up come the arguments about "edit warring", "ownership", and so forth. It's a load of bull crap. You might think a little differently if the shoe were on the other foot.

Oh come on, we can make the conspiracy bigger than that. China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter and the Republican Party wants to kill NASA's Earth monitoring program. Their motto: "What we don't know, can't hurt them."