Yes. But I’m not paid continuously for the work I’ve done in the past, and I’m not paid the actual value of my work.

Should we still be paying Homer for his incredible work on the Iliad, do you think?

I work for a living, so I’m used to my work being exploited as a matter of course.

Nah mate. Information is free the second it leaves its source. Any attempt to curtail it after then is just a cunt’s trick.

I prefer my mechanical stress calculations in millidynes per square kiloparsec thank you very much.

Everything is about Israel. They are destroying our species. Ignore what they are doing at your own peril, friend.

They are talking about mathematical proofs here. Once the mathematical proof is complete, we can look at the application, i.e. using it to make predictions and seeing how well they do.

The one you’re too lazy to search?

You’re saying that social media is not the real cause of the youth mental health crisis? Do you propose a different cause? Because I know of a good few, very well-qualified people (of varying ages) that might explicitly disagree with you…

Yes, the material the streams are made of is magnetic, and there is a strong and unusual magnetic field around the sun. So those streams are trapped by magnetism.

Even cooler: solar flares and mass ejections come about when one of the lines snaps like a whip and hurls billions of tonnes of plasma into space. Search: solar magnetic reconnection.

Plasma is electrically charged, so it interacts with magnetic lines.
The sun has magnetic field lines just as the earth does. It also rotates. But- since it’s not solid, it doesn’t have to rotate all at the same speed. The plasma in fast-rotating regions drags the field lines further than the plasma in slow rotating areas, creating weird loops, breaks and reconnections in the field lines. I’m almost certain that what we’re seeing in this lovely bit of photography is a cloud of plasma travelling across, or trapped by one of those rogue field lines which has been pushed upwards from the surface by differential rotation.

There’s also the fact that they are too explosive to conform to flight safety standards.

Another nail in the coffin of the Geneva Conventions.
Growing up I always thought the highest laws in the world would be the hardest to break. I felt protected. But these last ten years or so I’ve seen how toothless they really are, and I feel exposed. Universal Human Rights aren’t worth the paper they were written on.

I wish more people realised this. Well said comrade.

The Celtic languages are closely related to European languages such as Breton, the ancestor languages having been developed and spoken widely in Europe pre-Roman conquest.
I’m only being picky because it adds even more support to your (already very fine) argument. You don’t even need that caveat.

Oxygen is not hydrogen. Therefore metal.
In fact hydrogen is a metal as long as it’s not undergoing fusion.
Lithium - metal.
Helium, believe it or not - metal. It’s pretty much just lithium anyway.
Look, can’t we fight back by shooting starlink down instead of sending up more and more until the sky is just a cloud of (actual) metal?

Dear everyone,

Please stop accelerating an arms race which puts thousands of objects into low earth orbit.

Sincerely, Astronomers

That’s why they stopped at three. The fourth bridge always takes forever to paint.

I think it’s just an assumption based on the mode of society at that time in history. If it was built in the 12th century it was built by what we would now consider slaves. In the 1100s the land was divided into fiefs and the lord of that land considered the people who lived and worked on the land as part of that land: serfs. Unless this bridge was an exception to the rule, then serfs would have undertaken all the labour that got it built.

“That Thou Art Mindful of Him” is the robot story of Asimov’s that scared me the most, because of this exact reasoning happening. I remember closing the book, staring into space and thinking ‘shit…we are all gonna die’