EdgarAllenPorn
EdgarAllenPorn t1_jad24zo wrote
Reply to TIL that when epidemiologist Tamara Safonova and virologist Alexandra Sheboldaeva discovered Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in 1937, they were accused of spreading the virus themselves and sentenced to 18 years in Soviet labor camps. by SecretAgentIceBat
Great way to keep all your people from dying of disease is to imprison any who research diseases
EdgarAllenPorn t1_iye6pea wrote
Reply to comment by i_stole_your_swole in Extragalactic SETI looks for life beyond the Milky Way. But where? In game theory one solution is a Schelling point — a single event that draws different group's attention. A binary neutron star merger could act as one, because observers across the universe will all be looking in the same direction. by EricFromOuterSpace
I always wonder about some of the assumptions built in to this. Like the idea that we'll just continue to grow in numbers forever. I mean human history shows a decrease in birth rates as living standards improve; maybe most species just find a stasis point of how many of them exist and it's less than "the whole galaxy". If that's true, then it's really not surprising we don't see any. If there were 100 individual stars with civilization around them in our galaxy, even if they'd been there a billion years there's basically zero chance we'd have seen them
EdgarAllenPorn t1_iuffwvy wrote
Reply to comment by davewave3283 in Times are tough by Eye_Juice
Best possible rating for this establishment
EdgarAllenPorn t1_je7sxsv wrote
Reply to comment by Vladi_Sanovavich in TIL: The outflow from Amazon River could fill 83 Olympic sized swimming pools per second. by the_ballmer_peak
That's a lotta nuts!