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If we 're talking about sci fi level civilizations, chances are that they know how to deal with microgravity. What you 'd need is to somehow trick the body to adapt to all those symptoms, rather than try to fight them with the usual countermeasures. But, usually, sci fi skips all this by using...

Well, you obviously need them. Where I live, we have scores of Brits fleeing the UK cause they can't afford the prices. As for your defense, maybe get the money from the Sovereign Grant? No? Yeah... priorities. Buying, transporting, storing and distributing 40,000 sensitive vaccines and other...

Suicide by Egyptian Cobras is certainly a very painful way to die, so it's probably a rumour or another product of Plutarch's vivid imagination. The Ancient Greeks (Cleopatra was a Ptolemean) and Egyptians had perfect knowledge of multitudes of poisons, so chances are it wasn't a Cobra. Also...

What? FUCKIN WHAT? The measles vaccine, specifically, has been targeted by your beloved maga nazis and related sickos for ages. This is THE model target when it comes to the anti vaxx stupidity. As for the covid vaccine, if you can a shred of knowledge on the subject, you 'd immediately realize...

US Steel relies on subsidies. US Oil and Coal rely on subsidies. Silicon Valley relies on subsidies. US Space (old and new) relies on subsidies. US Agriculture relies on subsidies. US auto industries rely on subsidies. MIC is no more than subsidies. Damn those Europeans with their...

Anecdotal and off topic but... just to cheer you up a bit: Me and spouce were having a coffee when I spotted a couple with MAGA hats on passing by. First time I saw shit like this in the small Greek island I live in, so I was very badly surprised. While considering what to do about it, two local...

+1 He even describes Wagner's later music as "barbaric", tearing down its pompous elements and expressing his utter disdain for the blatant use of German mythology for the pangermanic propaganda of his days. The man was a romantic. He lamented the ethics of the industrial age and, contrary to...

China, Europe, Japan, India... wherever they 're respected and there 's no gestapo threatening to throw them in camps cause of their color or language.

Can't be otherwise since we don't have real evidence. It's still the most familiar of all the words in the solar system, so the debate is charged. I, among many others here, believe that one day people will go there for good and even that we will try to terraform it. And I know that the reason I...

Why "madness"? Colonization is an essential part of human history even before the appearance of Homo Sapiens. We simply don't have the tech. Also, the idea of "saving Earth" is a bit weird cause Earth's biosphere has endured much worse than humanity. Earth's gonna be just fine. We humans are...

SpaceX isn't the only game in town. They 're alone in reusability and highly competitive at commercial launches but they 're not alone in space. The Chinese are coming in fast in reusability and the rest of the space club has sufficient capabilities for their national needs. IF the Starship was...

I beg to differ. From the federal and state health institutions down to the nurses and janitors in those clinics, everyone is breaking their back just to keep the lights on. They constantly have to beg for funds and personel, while literally trillions are pocketed by a swarm of healthcare...

1. There's no "healthcare system" in the US. There's a thriving healthcare business sector and its victims. 2. The fact that "almost nobody" dies from measles is because people are vaccinated. Also, what long term consequences? The particular vaccine is being used like forever by, literally...

It is. It was very refreshing after all the dystopian tirades of modern sci fi.

Methinks you got to read the book again :alien:

My old man had esophageal varices. Never life threatening but severe enough to make his life miserable. He dealt with it by radically changing his diet and it's been some 10 years now without severe symptoms. Next time you visit your doc ask him if you can put yoghurt + honey in your diet. It...

I got about a dozen chains of emails from people who wanna move to Europe, just in the last three months. About half are either retired or about to and they are mostly interested in Southern Europe. All the younger ones (~30 - 45) asked me specifically about Ireland and The Netherlands but most...

Watching the recent failures, I was thinking the exact same thing. It seems that somehow these failures don't distill to improvements and this may have to do with the quality of the people working there. I won't pretend to know what's happening in SpaceX but even the vibe in their own videos...

Maybe it was even more mundane. We know that Neanderthals had, on average, bigger brains than us. We also know that human babies are born very premature compared to other apes, cause there are mechanical limits to how wide female hip bones can get. Any Modern Human / Neanderthal hybrid that...

If they were separate, they would have difficulty producing fertile offsprings. They were certainly morphologically different but the genetic distance shouldn't have been great. In this sense, one may say that we never "unmerged". Maybe the best definition is the simplest one: We 're just...