Yeah, it's going to be hard to establish a plausible positive ROI for interstellar travel. I think even public funding for probes will be problematic, since it will take years just to get flyby photos. Probably the first flyby will be funded by some rich guy.
If the Feds want to protect children from sex, why don't thy start by telling the DoJ to prosecute the Epstein bros instead of protecting them?
At this point, I've stopped giving politicians the benefit of the doubt.
Born yesterday, I presume?
We should pass around a hat for all those rich people who didn't richer as fast as they expected to.
I'm a cognitive zenith graybeard who felt alive JUST THIS MORNING, you insensitive clod!
Then what happened?
It's fucking alien bees!
And their honeycomb really attracts the Martian bears!
because you don't have any idea where it got its "facts" from.
With a link you can (roughly) judge the credibility of the source. I.e., did the "facts" come from published research or some nobody on social media. Or some known propaganda outlet.
Sounds like a good strategy for a studio that expects their big movie to be a box office flop.
The biggest shock of all is finding Ted Cruz on the right side. I wonder if it's just "a stopped clock is right twice a day" in action.
and most of that was put in place by Democrats.
They also invented salmonella and body odor.
Fortunately God decided it was necessary to intervene and created his own political party to protect us from drag queens and people who take that "liberty and justice for all" kind of crap seriously.
This would be a good time to point out that every political argument has two sides and two points of view.
You mean, like, a good one and a bad one?
Anyone want to buy a $100,000,000,000 data center at fire-sale prices?
I'm anticipating the first time I see the word roboticide in the news.
All the hunters and fisherman who voted for this are going to blame Hillary/Obama/Binden.
And B.Clinton, Carter, Johnson, J.F.Kennedy, Truman, Roosevelt...
Russia has assassinated former Russian citizens outside of Russia before, it would be unsurprising if they did it again.
I suppose they could do that, but I don't know what it would accomplish. Telegram is already written and functional; murdering Durov wouldn't uninstall it anywhere. I suppose it might intimidate the next guy who is considering writing a secure messaging app, but I don't think Russia is playing that kind of decades-long game anymore. Their main goal now is short-term: figure out how survive the Ukraine debacle without getting strung up by their own citizenry.
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