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Comment Re: Okay, this telescope is seriously cool (Score 1) 63

"White male capitalists and colonialists???" This is sarcastic joking. Right? RIGHT?.
OKAY. Speaking as someone (slightly more than) tangentially involved with the Hubble (and someone who considers himself an astronomer), yes, I am grateful for the support the JWST has gotten over the years/decades. And that's despite the delays and cost overruns. Even so, I can only hope (and cannot guarantee) that the science will be worth it. But thanks to the incredible views of the universe provided by the Hubble, I expect that it will.

Comment Re:Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score 1) 178

And the carbon in the food itself came from the environment *RECENTLY*. Food doesn't last very long. And even when the food is consumed, its carbon is still released into the environment. The only slowdown in this process would be humans putting on a spare tire, but that still gets released eventually.

Comment Maybe it's the fucking [virus] factory! (Score 1) 166

ObStewart: "Oh my god, there’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. That's just a little too weird, don't you think? And then they asked those scientists -- they're like 'how did this... so wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab. How did this happen?' and they're like 'mmmm -- a pangolin kissed a turtle?' and you're like 'no the name of your lab! If you look at the name! Can I let me see your business card. Show me your business card. Oh -- I work at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan. Oh, cause there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan. How did that happen?' 'Maybe a bat... flew into the cloaca of a turkey and... then it sneezed into my chili. And now we all have Coronavirus. ... Maybe it's the fucking [virus] factory!"

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