Shakes cane, "when I was a boy", etc....

In Dutch, this has become the thing people do now as well. Being a Germanic sister language of German, Dutch also does/should not use the apostrophe in this sense, but people do it anyway. Then again, a language is a living thing, and in the end, it is what people speak and write. I can live with this.

Stolen directly from Reddit, but very true.

Yes, and no. Yes, if you work off the model where there is a universal "now", and light just happens to travel at some high speed. In that model, the explosion happened, and we are now just waiting for the light to finally arrive. However, the problem with that model is that there is no universal "now".

So no: The speed of light is not related to light. Light travels at that speed, but there is nothing about the properties of light that somehow determines that speed; other things, such as gravitational interactions, travel at that speed as well. That speed is not just some arbitrary speed limit, but rather the speed of causality, full stop. There is nothing at point A that can even influence point B in less time. This is what determines our past light cone, or rather, our past causality cone.

And to be clear: this star's bright light-up is not in our past light cone, and so, for us, it did not yet happen.

The fact that we nowadays have these launches and first-stage landings as a matter of course, with little mention outside of technically-minded news sources, is in fact a great achievement. This is exactly what space travel should become.

So what causes the red shift in distant objects?

All those entry level jobs gone. Why not $75/hr?

Are they personality prototypes too?

We don’t need to wear masks. No wait, now we do. Hold up now we need to wear two masks. We can stop wearing masks now. Surprise, we need to wear masks again. Actually it turns out masks aren’t as effective as we thought.

We just need 15 days to slow the spread. Now we need a month. Maybe a year. Never mind, we didn’t need to lock down at all and it caused more harm than good.

Don’t take any vaccine that Donald Trump rushed to market. You didn’t get the vaccine, are you nuts? The vaccine is highly effective. Oops it looks like highly vaccinated Israel is having a major outbreak. Get the vaccine or lose your job.

Maybe. Robots like this tend to get tested in New Zealand first, before being deployed in the US. Sort of a scale model test.

Pretty easy for them to re-use a remote controlled car. They probably just didn't think of it.

A classic one with sensors is to detect no signal at all and mark the sensor as non-functional. I wonder if the miners in this case found a way to simulate normal demand?

The stolen energy is a small part of the overall consumption for an area. Probably losses due to poor insulation are greater than losses from theft. The heat emitted by growers and crypto miners can be detected by helicopter mounted infrared cameras and often leads the police to the offender.

Now, how to hide waste heat...

Almost a tonne.

Whats that in electron-volts?

They were stealing electricity, probably by bypassing the power meter, though the next step is probably to root the power company billing system.

You mean, and working in quarantine? They all get tested before they start work so I don't see how they could be carriers.