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An absence of correlation is a pretty strong hint for an absence of causation.
Well, we already have plenty of evidence that a very large comet full of ice airbursted over Earth several thousands of years ago, so I am not surprised of the article's findings. I've never heard of comets gathering ice over time, rather the opposite (gassing out over time, fragmenting and finally becoming dark/inactive).
The gist of the paper is to claim black holes, as we observe them, cannot form by collapse of a massive star.
Can't wait for nuclear-powered giant octopus submarines. Beats a laser-sporting shark anyday !
Weird. I'm on a sodium-rich and potassium-low diet, my resting heart rate is all over the place between 60 and 80, and no matter the amount of extra sodium I eat, my blood pressure never goes beyond 70-120 (it's usually around 70-110).
African grey parrots in captivity can reach, and have reached, 80 years of lifespan. That should be in the vicinity of 10 billion heartbeats.
Very bad examples here. In both cases of pharma and music, the up-front costs are vastly inflated because of the existence of "intellectual property" laws. This is a basic mechanism: your costs adjust up by the amount of guaranteed income, in the absence of any additional marginal wealth production. Or to put it another way: actual value you produce eventually adjusts down to the amount of value you need to convince other people to pay you. The amount you do not need to convince them to pay, trades for nothing. That's why monopoly rents even exist in the first place: laziness.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz