So now we're automating that whole "person surrounds themselves with sycophantic yes-men until their grip on reality finally slips" thing.

Sure, if you want to kick photosynthesis (and like, farming) in the nuts.

Not so much being absorbed and re-emitted (that would be scattering) but a weird thing where the light's electromagnetic fields get tangled up in the material's electrons' electromagnetic fields, leading to quasiparticles that have an effective mass (and thus a speed c). Shit's weird.

Yeah but what has science done for me lately?

The magnetic field (or lack thereof) isn't really relevant to atmospheric mass loss (IIRC Earth's magnetic field overall increases its atmospheric loss rate slightly). The lower gravity is the big problem.

> Is it evil, or merely Grade-A Capitalism? "It's the same picture."

Any impact big enough to break the Moon up would blow Earth's atmosphere off as an immediate byproduct of the collision, so we wouldn't really have to worry about "what happens next". XD

Charmingly, our "universal" healthcare doesn't cover prescription drugs. If it happens to you at the hospital, or your doctor's office, you're covered. Prescriptions, nope.

I wish I had mod points because this needs "Insightful".

It can never be absolutely proven that the photon has zero rest mass, but physicists can by experiment place constraints on its mass. IIRC it must be less than 10^-17 eV. None of the follow-on consequences of a massive photon have ever been observed.

They've always been exactly identical.

The only person gatekeeping your skill is you. Go learn how to do the thing you want to do.

Anyone who threatens capital must be demonized, you know this.

Yeah, the internet will shit itself for a while but a lesson needs to be taught.

If you don't have peons to step on, can you really call yourself "wealthy"?