Are all these satellites going to sit there forever when obsolete? They will cause increasing reflection effects; some may be blackened but that will probably degrade slowly. Unless they fall into the atmosphere but has anyone evaluated what the end effects of these things falling are?

In the same way that we have been filling the land and oceans with our own junk, this is increasingly spreading into space. Now this has moved on from nations launching their own limited numbers of comparitively large satellites to competing swarms of small satellites.

Precursor - copper needles for the military - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Bullets are designed to kill enemy soldiers. They won't harm you.

If it was not a critical control system, then it was a critical fault. In either case it was deliberately added.

If Boeing is still in possession of important information, then it needs to be made public for further evaluation before further flights take place.

Quite a rant, but there are some valid points there. Now, if you had stopped to think and kept it short and sweet, it might have been useful.

It's not codified; some people know it explicitly, most learn it from usage. I sometimes type in the wrong order accidentally and then something about it makes me uncomfortable. Usually then I start to search for a spelling mistake first before looking at the grammar!

I think the general tenor of most comments above is that it would be like hiring that same Blackwater - https://www.brookings.edu/arti... , and I'd agree. I'm guessing you see them as competent and heroic.

Yes, sample bias needs to be eliminated. Even '... of European descent' begs some questions. Europeans are not a homegenous people and regional diversity is sometimes visible in face and body shape, even within Britain and Ireland. If the early ones were say mostly from England, and the later ones includes some Germans, Russian and French, then it is two distinct population samples.

Yes, that would be reasonable, given the nature of what was alleged.

Just to make it clearer what the other replies are referring to, no one is saying that it is a coincidence that Gulf Stream slowing comes along with climate change. It is a result of it. Some of the other things you mention are possibly coincidence (e.g. pole shift). Some things may be connected with other human over-activity (e.g. the pandemic), and thus correctly linked to this event but not contributing to it. The remainder of your suggestions are, as far as I know anyway, not credibly associated with this. Why you brought them up is something for you to explain

As I'm sure there are many people wanting to tell you, that's capitalism 'working as designed'. The trouble is that the design is pretty crap for many things, intellectual property being one of them. Profiteering occurs through the big cracks in the design.

Some loss of some sovereignty comes with every international agreement.

- 4004 - 2020 = - 6024 (or 6k years ago)

Agreed. IT makes a perfect screen for distancing the actor from the consequences. 'The software was buggy' (not we made a mistake in programming). That excuses everything, make a promise to look into it and it is accepted.

Distancing is the key. If there is a structure or method to separate the actor from the consequences, then that can be exploited. It is the parallel of what happens when the military kills civilians. A soldier shoots civilians that he can see in front of him, that's a war crime. A drone pilot or a pilot drops a bomb, he does not see the civilians and does it from far away, that's collateral damage blamed on faulty information or whatever.

Nowhere in that clip does Fauci say that. The headline says it, but that is the journalist, i.e. the Guardian. It's a provocative headline and you are provoked.

I think it was a success in providing a suitable subject to explain the phrase 'What a plonker!'