I think very few people like the taste of coffee the first time they taste it in their life, and they have to "get used" to the taste and/or add a lot of milk/sugar in the beginning. I really dislike the taste and never really felt any reason to force myself to like/drink coffee, I drink energy drink or take a caffeine pill if I am really tired and really need to wake up. I hope this effect is a correlation and not a causation, and that I'm not loosing out on too much health benefits.

Urectum

The name for millipedes in Scandinavian languages: Danish: "tusindben" (thousandlegs) Norwegian: "tusindbein" (thousandlegs) Swedish: "tusindfoting" (thousandfeet)

You cannot multiply a unit of "CO2 per person per year" by 1 billion people and then still call the resulting unit "CO2 per person per year". I guess what they are trying to say that 1 billion people emits less than 1 ton "CO2 per year", so in a lifetime of ~75 years 1 billion people will emit less than 75 tons of CO2 which is what an 11 minute space flight emits per person. That figure seems very low, are they talking about the amount of CO2 people exhale from their bodies during their lifetime?

I wonder if we know the trajectory of Oumuamua precisely enough, so that we can find it again, when we in 100+ years hopefully have the propulsion technology to catch up to it. It was only leaving the Solar system at about 70,000 mph or about 0.01% of light speed, so even with 100+ years of head start, we would only need a few percent of light speed to catch up quickly.

When shipping a $10 billion telescope you should not be worried about piracy, because you should have a small to medium sized army with you...

Yo' momma's so fat, she has to use Conway chained arrow notation to describe her weight.

Maybe fusion is only 19 years away now!

So let us guess how many years until they show quantum supremacy on a USEFUL calculation. Some result that can be used in math or physics or any other field. My guess is: 8 years.

I guess this might make sense in some places if they cannot make electric powered furnace that are hot enough? But using this in a power plant instead of coal seems stupid: Burn iron powder for energy, and then use renewable energy to turn it back into iron powder. Why not just use the renewable energy directly?? There must be a loss in this iron powder process.

"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..." But I really hope this breaks that rule.

Yes a bit over half a million square meters (640000 square yards) which is about 53 ha (132 acres), and they say it is smaller than Armillaria gallica, but that is "only" 15 ha (37 acres): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Big Pasta" made me instantly imagine Jabba the Hutt but made out of pasta :-)

Quick Australia make a law saying that the Riemann hypothesis, P vs NP and the other math Millennium Prize Problems are solved. Then we will at least get some answers out of this crazy law system.