It was a 72m mast for a 56m boat. Nowhere did I say it was the tallest mast, only that it was oversized for the boat.

Yes, and this is wrong. A mast to length ratio of ~1.3 is pretty typical for sloops. This one is a bit under that.

The max speed of the Bayesian was 12 knots.

The maximum speed of a pure displacement hull is pretty much set by the length of the boat. Better upwind characteristics can mean you get where you're going quite a bit faster. It's also a characteristic that's very desireable to sailors who enjoy sailing.

You seem to know very little about sailing.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

It is temperature in the usual sense. It's possible you think of temperature as a synonym for heat, or energy though, which it is not.

We do, in fact, have distinct units: Kelvin or Celsius for temperature, Joules for heat and energy.

Baryonic dark matter was the first thing that was considered, and every version of it you can imagine has been studied. The "arguments" that it's not baryonic are based on all those observations that exclude various possibilities.

You've got to land propulsively on the moon, and Starship's redundancy is an advantage there. Earth is a different matter though. I hope you're wrong, since propulsive landing is probably necessary for cheap human access to space via rocket, but it's going to be a long slog to achieve, then demonstrate the required reliability.

The mast wasn't "ridiculously oversized." Despite the media hype it's not even particularly tall, being 70 m to the 90 m record.

The builder made several similar boats but this one was made as a sloop instead of a ketch at the buyer's request. There are reasons to prefer a sloop to a ketch rig, the main one being better upwind performance.

The buyer, Eric Jelgersma, was paralyzed in a sailing accident in 2005 so he seems not to have been the type to just sip drinks on the yacht. It's quite possible he wanted the sloop for the sailing characteristics.

The salvage isn't really part of the investigation. It's cleanup. The same as if you crash your car into a ditch someone comes and hauls it away. The insurance company pays.

Governments genearally pay for investigations. People generally think they're important, especially when people die.

I hope that you either find peace, or that otherwise that your inevitable suicide is painless.

Remember back in the early days when they were pretending that they weren't an illegal taxi service, but rather were just normal people "sharing a ride" to where they wanted to go anyway, and so called it "rideshare" to avoid prosecution?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

If we went back in time to the 1980s would you be saying even a non-singular black hole is just too far outside the Overton Window for most physicists?

No.

How do you know the limits you set now, which have moved so far, won't move towards zero size and infinite densities in another few decades?

Because infinities in a physical theory aren't "oh, that's very extreme, I don't know," they signify a breakdown in the predictive capability of a theory: i.e. the one thing it's supposed to do.

My level of pessimism about things like regrowing limbs has declined a lot in recent years. I mean, there's literally a treatment to regrow whole teeth in human clinical trials right now in Japan, after having past clinical trials with mice and ferrets.

In the past, "medicine" was primarily small molecules, or at best preexisting proteins. But we've entered an era where we can create arbitrary proteins to target other proteins, or to control gene expression, or all sorts of other things; the level of complexity open to us today is vastly higher than it used to be. And at the same time, our level of understanding about the machinery of bodily development has also been taking off. So it will no longer come across as such a huge shock to me if we get to the point where we can regrow body parts lost to accidents, to cancer, etc etc.

Whether someone is "curable" or not doesn't affect the GP's point. A friend of mine has ALS. He faced nonstop pressure from doctors to choose to kill himself. Believe it or not, just because you've been diagnosed with an incurable disease doesn't make you suddenly wish to not be alive. He kept pushing back (often withholding what he wanted to say, which is "If I was YOU, I'd want to die too."), and also fighting doctors on his treatment (for example, their resistance to cough machines, which have basically stopped him from drowning in his own mucus), implementing extreme backup systems for his life support equipment (he's a nuclear safety engineer), and the nonstop struggle to get his nurses to do their jobs right and to pay attention to the warning sirens (he has a life-threatening experience once every couple months thanks to them, sometimes to the point of him passing out from lack of air).

But he's gotten to see his daughter grow up, and she's grown up with a father. He's been alive for something like 12 years since his diagnosis, a decade fully paralyzed, and is hoping to outlive the doctor who told him he was going to die within a year and kept pushing him to die. He's basically online 24/7 thanks to an eye tracker, recently resumed work as an advisor to a nuclear startup, and is constantly designing (in CAD**) and "building" things (his father and paid labour function as his hands; he views the world outside his room through security cameras).

He misses food and getting to build things himself, and has drifted apart from old friends due to not being able to "meet up", but compared to not being alive, there was just no choice. Yet so many people pressured him over the years to kill himself. And he finds it maddening how many ALS patients give in to this pressure from their doctors, believing that it's impossible to live a decent life with ALS, and choose to die even though they don't really want to.

And - this must be stressed - medical institutions have an incentive to encourage ALS patients to die. Because long-term care for ALS patients is very expensive; there must be someone on-call 24/7. So while they present it as "just looking after your best interests", it's really their interest for patients to choose to die.

(1 in every 400 people will develop ALS during their lifetime, so this is not some sort of rare occurrence) (as a side note, for a disease this common, it's surprising how little funding goes into finding a cure)

** Precision mouse control is difficult for him, so he often designs shapes in text, sometimes with python scripts if I remember correctly

We "created" artificial intelligence in the 50s. You're taking your definition of the term from science fiction. Emphasis on the last word in that sentence.

The booster has had at least one failed relight on every landing, improving to just a single one on the last launch. That's probably okay for cargo, but not for people.

Very few physicists really believe that a black hole has a singularity. Things like infinite density and zero size usually indicate you've pushed your theory too far. And from the outside everything looks like its piled up on the horizon, so it would be pretty strange to observe it whipping around at faster than the speed of light.

The singularity comes from an interpretation of an infalling observer's point of view, and Roy Kerr, the guy who came up with the solution for a rotating black hole, pretty vehemently disagrees that even that POV implies a singularity. Also, rotating black holes wouldn't have a point singularity anyway, but a ring. Also also, if a black hole spun too fast the event horizon would disappear.