@shavixmir said
Until you realise that a united Ireland means having hard core protestant fanatics in your midsts.
The Ian Paisleys of this world.

England created a monster. Best let them deal with it.

Hm, I'm pretty sure Paisley's style of papist-hating has more to do with the Scots kirklets than with Cantaburgian catholicism.

@divegeester said
I also read in several places that it due to the moon having a thicker crust on the far side. Must have been in its early life though as it’s completely solid now isn’t it?

Wrong, wrong, and wrong.

@moonbus said
@sonhouse


Organic molecules have been detected in a distant galaxy:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/06/world/webb-telescope-distant-organic-molecules-scn/index.html

Woo-hoo.

Carbon in other galaxies also bonds with oxygen and hydrogen.

Big deal. Big surprise.

@metal-brain said
Musk said

Musk said a hero is a paedophile. What Musk said is worth as little as what you write.

@kevcvs57 said
I still maintain that a plant based food is better for you than a meat and dairy one

Well, you're factually and evolutionarily wrong, then. We're omnivores. We have both molars and canines. Get to grip with it.

@kevcvs57 said
Well we do eat way to much meat and dairy for own, and the planets health.

Not really.

The USA throws away too much maize-fed beef to be sustainable.

Other kinds of meat bred in other countries on more sustainable feed are rather more, well, sustainable; and most countries aren't as eager to dump food into the waste bin as the paranoid USA.

As with so many issues, it's not meat that's the problem - it's the USA.

@metal-brain said
It already happened in the Netherlands.

If I were you, I'd check right now that your trousers are not aflame.

@metal-brain said
simple website like DDOS

Don't use technical words you don't understand, boy.

@blood-on-the-tracks said
All obsessed with USA based series (generally)

I thought Life On Mars/Ashes To Ashes fabricated a very decent ending

Unlike it's USA based copy series

Well, if we're including English series, there's only one candidate for best, is there?

"Good luck, everyone. blows whistle"

@sh76 said
After 7 seasons of being a hero, Dany

Well, there's where you thirsty fanboys go wrong. She was never a hero. She always was just another psycho in a psychos' world. You just never saw it because unlike Tyrion, she was pretty and blonde.

Dany's story was the perfect end to the series. The only thing bad about season 7 was that they faked a "good" ending. They should've all died. Yes, her as well.

@moonbus said
@sonhouse


At the other end of the spectrum, life on earth, a previously unknown species found: a pre-human species which buried their dead, used tools, controlled fire, and carved symbols into cave walls. We aren't unique. We aren't special at all.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/05/world/homo-naledi-burials-carvings-scn/index.html

Well... except that Homo Naledi was already known, and if not an ancestor of H. Sap. is at least a close aunt or uncle.

@mihai said
On another aspect very interesting how feature rich the near side of the Moon is. The far side of the Moon looks very dull, with more uniform small craters all over.

Not a mystery at all. The moon is tidally locked to the earth but hasn't always been. Thus, the near side still bears the scars of the time when there were still relatively big asteroids in our orbit to make nice big craters there, while on the far side they have been obliterated over time by a continuous barrage of smaller but more common bodies.

@venda said
No,and you know that is true.
What I will say is that if not for the moon being big enough to steady the Earth higher life forms would not exist.

This is the fallacy known as the weak anthropic principle. If the moon hadn't been there, we'd have been asking the same question two hundred parsecs and ninety million years away.

Astrud Gilberto, original singer of Girl from Ipanema.

@mihai said
We may be 8 billion years away from the great rise of civilizations to galactic space and beyond. Politics of that may have stabilized all over the Universe in less than 1 billion years, which is really huge, Earth civilization grew exponentially in 10k years. We must be in a protected reserved area of the galaxy.

Or, maybe, none of that is remotely realistic and we really are alone except for some not very advanced microbes on 3764 Ceti J, and an unpromising primordial soup on Claxton 453.j996-7.