They don’t reject the right to read books. They want to keep certain books away from their kids. They are not asking to have them made illegal by the government to own or read or study academically.

Everybody has SOME books they wouldn’t want their kids reading until they’re old enough. We just draw the line different.

Caveat that these are generalizations and there are always SOME people out there that actually advocate for truly insane things. Pick the worst idea imaginable, someone out there is a proponent of it. But that’s beside the point.

There was a recent paper suggesting black holes contribute to dark energy, but there is dark energy even in the deepest voids of space hundreds of millions of light years from any black hole. It’s not the primary cause.

Because that’s not one of the available options?

Is this surprising?

Sure but there probably aren’t any planets that close to it. It’s more likely to happen around stellar black holes not galactic black holes.

You could in theory, but you wouldn’t want to. First you are entirely at the mercy of its random trajectory, sure you could nudge it around, but it’s generally going to be headed into deep space, away from any solar energy source. If you had fusion power you could be okay for energy. But if you wanted to turn it drastically, it would require more energy than it would take to just accelerate a space ship in that direction at the same speed.

The main problem is that even if it happens to be pointed exactly where you want to go, it’s not necessarily going to get you you there faster or more efficiently than just building your own starship.

If the asteroid is going really fast, you’d have to build a ship that catch catch up to it and match its speed. If you have that, you don’t really need the asteroid apart from resourcing mining.

If it’s going as fast as modern rockets currently allows, then riding on it wont get you there faster than just staying in the ship.

It wouldn’t solve any problem except providing a far greater reservoir of resources, and not a very good one. What you really want from fusion energy is hydrogen. It’s not efficient to extract hydrogen from rock.

Incorrect. In English the phrase for this is “piloting a helicopter.”

The eject is, they have to account for it when calculating long distances.

You don’t have to be a scientist you can be a project manager or something. Most NASA employees are not doing orbital mechanics calculations all day.

I’m curious what your opinion is on how CA is possibly going to meet its goals. We want all cars to be electric within a short time window yet our power grid is so outdated that we can’t even handle a heat wave without brownouts when 90% of the cars are still non-electric, meanwhile PG&E is bankrupt and unable to perform the duties expected of it even if this were just the 1990s, let alone some green futuristic scenario…

How can our currently terrible system even meet todays capacity requirement let alone science fiction level ones? Battery technology for off hour storage just isn’t up to snuff right now. There are a lot of interesting solutions but few are actually being implemented.

What do you mean by “believe in aliens.”

“Believe in aliens” is generally shorthand for believing that aliens routinely visit Earth and possibly intervene to teach humans fire and how to build pyramids and occasionally probe the rectums of farmhands.

I think you mean, “believe life exists elsewhere in the universe.” That’s the scientific view that statistically there ought to be life elsewhere if only single celled life, but no contact has even been made nor probably ever will.

Makes sense in context of the lettters

Oh wow so late for the Mongols? Guns were starting to show up on the battlefield around this time weren’t they?

I didn’t realize 14th century Twitter allowed so many characters.

Imagine being someone who watches parades…

Did you seriously just say Saddam Hussein is one of the obstacles to Kurdish independence??

Try Erdogan.

I wonder how many people who find this to be an outrage are the same people that also say about America, “I’m all for free speech and everything, but maybe we should ban speech that I don’t agree with or find offensive. I mean, people could get hurt ya know!”

Romans didn’t force everyone in their territories to speak Latin. Plus it takes centuries for a whole region to change languages and the Romans had only been holding the Levant for a short period at the time.

Either the ideas have a common source or independent sources. There’s not a third way around it.

It is a such a cool concept. But it’s really no different than how you know when it’s time to go to the bathroom. It’s all just feelings.

“Who could think of spinning silk number 5 at a time like this? Clearly this calls for a number 3.”