Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 by the Inquisition, having been found guilty of:

1. holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith and speaking against it and its ministers;
2. holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith about the Trinity, divinity of Christ, and Incarnation;
3. holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith pertaining to Jesus as Christ;
4. holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith regarding the virginity of Mary, mother of Jesus;
5. holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith about both Transubstantiation and Mass;
6. claiming the existence of a plurality of worlds and their eternity;
7. believing in metempsychosis and in the transmigration of the human soul into brutes;
8. dealing in magicks and divination.

Note the wording.
It was not so much his claims that the church had a problem with.
It was the fact that he was a Dominican Friar, and as such, was expected to toe the party line, even if that meant maintaining absurd positions.
And unlike Galileo, no posthumous pardon, exoneration, apology or rehabilitation has ever been offered.

On the plus side, we know that Bruno kept his copy of Erasmus in his privy, and so we can conclude that, while nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, he was probably expecting the Italian Inquisition.

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I wonder if SpaceX are looking at Waverider designs for BFR re-entry.
With a strongly negative dihedral, you can contain the shock wave under the "wings" and use it as a lifting surface - "compression lift".
To change your lift direction you roll the vehicle around the inside of the shock cone.

Since the purpose of such "wings" is to contain the shock rather than generate lift directly, they don't need much thickness, just (a lot of) heat resistance - maybe even something as flimsy as a woven mesh. ...which means they could be folded and stowed for other phases of flight to reduce drag, you could easily swap out the wings for different planetary atmospheres, and by having your payload/CG on a sliding sled you need fewer control surfaces - like a hang glider.

(Citation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2015...)

TLDR / WAG: Replacing those huge leg-stablizer-thngs on the "Tintin BFR" with something resembling fold-away mosquito netting would add a lot of lightness....could this be Elon's "delightfully counter-intuitive" new BFR design?

I thought the power of these things were measured in TeV...

Serious question to any engineers who know how to build these devices: is the diameter/length of the accelerator relevant to the performance or just to the cost?

"hot" is a euphemism for someone or something having a high degree of radioactivity.

That is not a euphemism. It is a colloquialism.

"That woman is hot" is a colloquialism for "I desire sexual congress with that woman".

Both of these phrases are euphemisms for "I'd fuck her".

A euphemism is the substitution of an offensive word or phrase with a genteel or inoffensive one.

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a low railing. From any hexagon one can see the floors above and below-one after another, endlessly. The arrangement of the galleries is always the same: Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon's six sides; the height of the bookshelves, floor to ceiling, is hardly greater than the height of a normal librarian. One of the hexagon's free sides opens onto a narrow sort of vestibule, which in turn opens onto another gallery, identical to the first - identical in fact to all. To the left and right of the vestibule are two tiny compartments. One is for sleeping, upright; the other, for satisfying one's physical necessities. Through this space, too, there passes a spiral staircase, which winds upward and downward into the remotest distance. In the vestibule there is a mirror, which faithfully duplicates appearances. Men often infer from this mirror that the Library is not infinite - if it were, what need would there be for that illusory replication? I prefer to dream that burnished surfaces are a figuration and promise of the infiniteLight is provided by certain spherical fruits that bear the name "bulbs." There are two of these bulbs in each hexagon, set crosswise. The light they give is insufficient, and unceasing."

- The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges

From TFA:

This experiment will test whether plants can survive radiation, flourish in partial gravity, and thrive in a small, controlled environment.

We can (and have) test all those things here on Earth. IIRC, NASA successfully grew lettuce in zero-g on a shuttle mission.
The moon is a terrible place to grow plants:

- 13-day/night cycle
- 275 Kelvin temperature variation
- 25 rem/yr radiation with no solar flare protection
- no water
- lunar regolith useless as soil

In other words you have to take the whole environment with you. Growing plants on a scale sufficient to be considered food on the moon is a long way off.

It makes for a good kids public outreach program, but let's be realistic: the moon is basically good for 2 things - a huge radio telescope on the far side, and the 1-50 ppb He-3 in the lunar regolith. By the time we're ready to do those things, robots will be good enough to do it all for us.

You're very clever young man, very clever. But I'm afraid it's rugs all the way down.