Exactly one human being is known to have been alive for both the Wright Flyer's first flight and Ingenuity's.

Kane Takana was 11 months old when Orville first took off; and 118 years old when Ingenuity first took off. She passed away on the first anniversary of its maiden flight.

So up to 12,000 beavers have made a small change to a stream, and that's exacerbating climate change?

The 8 billion large primates (mostly) further south have nothing to do with it?

With a few more impurities added, you get a human.

...perhaps don't say lo and behold in your interview.

Whilst I'm not for moment denying man-made global warming, the article implies that the zero-degree line has been steadily getting higher.

The table in the article, however, shows the second-highest year as 1995. There's clearly a lot of variability in this level.

Ecclesiastes 1:9: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Words written by a wise man, or perhaps a Wyse man in this case.

I'm astonished, and very sceptical, of their ability to distinguish orbital decay of 1ms per year versus predictions of 0.02ms per year, at a distance of over 3,000 light years.

That's just where they laid out all the equipment after removing it from the crawl space.

How long do you think the Neptune pics took to get? I'd imagine they're also really useful for calibration and understanding of the telescope's capabilities.

If we found (non-communicating) alien life on a planet 50ly away, it'd be in the news for a couple of weeks then everything would be back to normal.

Ah, got it (also reading the article helps). We're looking at a cross-section of the pressure waves rather than waiting for them to pass us by.

OK, so if they raised the sound 57 octaves, a multiplier of 144 quadrillion, and they got a sound out of that which humans can hear, so at least 20Hz, that means the period of the original sound would have been at least (1/20 Ã-- 144 quadrillion) = 7 quadrillion seconds, which is about 230 million years for just a single wavelength.

I doubt we've been measuring it for that long.

Your post suggests to me that accuracy isn't something into which you put too much value.

Everyone downvoting or disagreeing with this one â" it's intended (I believe) as an additional list item to the "typical replies" list in the GP post, not the parent's actual opinion.

Here's another one for the list:

If you get caught in a snowstorm in an EV, you're doomed because they don't have heaters and the battery will die.

Nintendo lawyers must have been struggling not to make the most of that opportunity.