They can also just fly lower. Cruising at 30000 ft instead of 40000 ft is a 50% to 75% radiation reduction.

Until now, the only generation who could have done anything about CO2 emissions are Boomers. The Silent Generation didn't know what the threat was and they didn't have the technology to do anything about it.

Most politicians today are extremely old and are only in those seats because equally old voters have disproportionate voting power. They are still predominantly Republican, which is a party that tries its best to deny and block any attempt at fixing or even adapting to climate change.

Time is running out for them though, so I think we will see if Gen X is any better when they're the ones in charge.

I know by the time we get to millennials (2040 onwards), there will be enough consensus to take some action. Though it might be too late by then.

You're right, but how it was written never mattered in the first place. Complaining about the process of creating the article is ad hominem. If someone disagrees with the points she raised, then they need to argue directly against those points.

That said, maybe it's not surprising that people who want to remove standardized testing from the admission process would also fail basic logic themselves.

Japan has a very conformist culture. Even if it's not a law, you're still expected to follow it.

That said, foreign companies and open source projects are unlikely to comply, and Japan has nothing near the frontier to replace them. It'll only be able to push its weight around when there's a Japanese alternative they can switch to.

If they were precious enough to preserve, maybe they should've been in a museum instead of being on sale.

It's the store's responsibility to make sure their employees know how to use the information provided and not simply trust everything they're told by the software.

This is the same cause of failure as when SWAT teams go on shooting sprees in random people's houses without even checking the veracity of the tip that they received.

You're supposed to leave heavy items on the bottom of the cart. If it's not a self-checkout, then the cashier needs to tally everything. It really doesn't take that much time for them to glance at an otherwise empty cart.

And it has zero enforcement mechanisms. If they're the only ones there, they have ownership.

There is a simple anthropocentric argument for colonizing the moon (or any habitat separate from Earth), which is if the Earth is destroyed, humanity will continue to exist.

Even if you don't care about humans, protecting complex life in general is still a worthy goal.

Ok, please explain how an attacking force will reache close enough to US shores in a way that cannot be caught by the other surveillance methods I mentioned, but would be caught by coastal radar.

The birds that can dodge the blades either have better aerobatic ability, better vision or better situational awareness. Any one of the 3 would work so there's plenty of chances to get it right.

Well, I wouldn't say they are that smart. But natural selection will fix the problem regardless.

When was the last time the US was attacked by something that a radar could see?

Oh that's right, 9/11. Well, those coastal radar installations are facing the wrong way. And frankly even if they were facing the right way, it wouldn't have helped because it takes too long for a fighter jets to intercept them and for a decision to be made to shoot them down.

And the time before that was Pearl Harbor (80 years ago), where the radar worked perfectly fine but people just ignored it. Well, we have satellites, submarines and ships with radar now and we would see the attack coming from 5000 miles away from multiple sources.

Presumably somebody told them hiking is a thing. That person did not tell them how to do prepare for longer hikes.

However, I don't think this points to a systemic failure. There are thousands of teens hiking in the woods at any time and most of them have no trouble.

Just looking at the map is deceiving too. The trails are not always drawn with the right level of detail to see how long it is. If you look at a diagram of the small intestines you wouldn't guess that it's three times longer than your entire body.