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Maybe they're out of practice?

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Teletubby pro wrestling circuit.

Today's solutions become tomorrow's problems. At least it keeps people employed.

Hurray for us! I mean, US. Thanks. May freedom endure all the travails.

Err... whut? You're expecting the "aliens" to apologize? Because I won't be.

People probably invented houses so they could ignore other people.

The Fox crowd has spent years conditioning its audience into disbelieving the mainstream media. Once that happens, what do you have left to believe in other than conspiracy theories? Here's a conspiracy theory: he was fed a line about the NSA by the Russians in order to stoke the fires of government distrust and paranoia in his audience. Putin would love nothing more than to see the USA intelligence agencies dismantled. Heh.

There was a time when the educated elite estimated the age of the Sun was 9 million years. However, this conflicted with geological findings. *shrug* https://www.christopherlovell.co.uk/blog/2015/12/13/The-age-of-the-earth.html

It's been a wee bit warm in the Seattle area. I just made it through the afternoon peak. Tomorrow it's supposed to cool down... to 95 F (35 C). We're not used to this up in the rainy northwest.

For now I'm just going to suspect it's some type of unexplained physical phenomenon. We didn't even know about sprites until 1994 or dark energy until 1999. We don't know anything about dark matter other than what it isn't, and we haven't fully explained baryon asymmetry yet. There are things we just don't know.

I like to think that liberty is a love of freedom balanced by a dose of mature responsibility. Just because one was vaccinated and has been careful to follow quarantine procedures does not mean one hates freedom.

Q. Reddit scientists?

When did the first COVID-19 case arise? No mention of Italy though. Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, study shows I haven't heard much about that since last year.

Well the issue isn't that the number is small. It's that it exists at all. Conceivably it was done just to muddy the waters. But then why? I'm merely curious.

Claim that Chinese team hid early SARS-CoV-2 sequences to stymie origin hunt sparks furor I haven't quite bought into the lab leak conspiracy yet, but this deletion does seem just a tad odd. I don't think Hanlon's razor applies here. Or does it?

Growing food with air and solar power: More efficient than planting crops It occurs to me that this could have some useful applications for long duration interplanetary travel. Maybe they should team up with NASA and see if it can be improved?