In addition to the problem of sending back data, at 10% lightspeed it's more a shot-by than a fly-by.
Well, on the other hand that would mean very few data to send back, which may help...

That's no star!

The purpose of this subsidy is also to compensate for the car value -- the money one could instead get from selling the car.
If all the subsidy goes in the bike purchase, that would mean asking people to trade their car for a bike with nothing more: that wouldn't work.

Who is attacking Russia?

Europe has better pro-worker laws than US, thanks to unions.
And unions are still useful to keep these laws, and to obtain pro-workers laws on new subject (e.g. teleworking).

There is no such thing as "tidal waves". The title is nonsense, as usual with BeauHD.
Waves are driven by winds, but not necessarily local wind.
Tides are driven by the moon, and in some places they cause strong currents that can be used to generate power, but this is not the case here: these platforms use waves.

The Rance Tidal Power Station is still producing power...

... or consider it as a kind of encryption: as easy to decrypt as to encrypt when one has the key, not at all when one hasn't.

Of course, and that is the reason for these manoeuvres.
I was just explaining the rationnal of the press release and that ESA did not contradict itself.

These weekly moves are because of space debris. This was the first time ESA had to do this to avoid another satellite.

Helicopters and other rotary-wing aircrafts do not takeoff and fly by "pushing air down". Vertical takeoff jets like the Harrier do.

This is precisely why the Ottawa Treaty (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FOttawa_Treaty) bans landmines. Of course this is not sufficient, because of rogue states like USA which didn't sign it, but this is better than if landmines where broadly produced, exported and used in every conflict.

Being Slashdot, "Japanese space tentacle" would be clear for everyone.

Maybe using SI units rather than neolithic ones would be more important than the number of digits of pi for NASA.

France's oldest nuclear plant is Brennilis. It ran from 1967 to 1985. It is still not fully decommissioned, this work being more complex and more expensive than foreseen...
And there is also Superphénix, running from 1986 to 1996 and far more complex to dismantle, because of plutonium and sodium.