It's a way to spur private space investment. The RIAA has already shown that they are willing to go to the ends of the Earth to collect their winnings. NASA is banking on them going to the ends of the universe to make sure that the 0.004 cents per stream is paid. While they are out there, they can carry a few probes.

It's all down hill, it's using regenerative braking.

From the article - The [PDO cheese] market is worth almost €80 billion annually, equivalent to $87 billion, according to an EU study published in 2020.

Remember this when you hear the phrase, "That aged like fine milk".

Since the word 'planet' comes from the Greek word for 'wanderer', these are the most planety of planets.

To have this EA standard business procedure joke explained to you will cost $15.

And the bugs that buzz around the restaurant are McFlies.

This sounds interesting. What should I Google to learn more about this?

Then you're responding to the wrong guy. Or you're not the same AC. Because I saw someone say, "Hey I'm not against masks. I have looked for something to back up your assertion but found nothing please help me out." The response was, "I won't waste my time because you're not going to listen." The only evidence for that is in your head, because that post held nothing but willingness to learn. I'm not against wearing masks. I wear one when I know I won't be able to maintain distance. And I encourage others to do so as well. And I have not seen evidence to back up that claim. Assuming you're the same AC, please let me know where I can find such evidence. I have seen evidence that it will noticeably lower the infection rate, but not that it will dramatically.... And there I see that this discussion is doomed because "dramatically" is meaningless, even if there weren't Anonymous Cowards invovled.

This is the least encouraging thing I've read all day. I would now bet money that you have no such evidence, but are only parroting.

That half a billion dollars constitutes 15% of the WHO's funding. I think this is an attempt to appease Trump.

Scientists will be directed to study things by those with less competence than they. I see no way around this. But this isn't really a direct response to what you've said, because you specified "zero competence" which is different than what I have just said. Thank you for your response.

I'd like an explanation of how it's unscientific to ask a scientist to study something. I imagine that it's not what you really meant, but an accident of the way the sentence was constructed.

I'm not looking forward to it at all. The whole thing smells like a political party trying to get rid of the guy they don't like. Also, like someone is selecting the target first, then picking the best way to take him down. The fact that I didn't (and still don't) want Trump to be my president doesn't really make me feel that much better about it. But you are right that it isn't a criminal trial, which actually makes me feel a lot better about the Senate's preemptive decision to acquit.

Makes me wonder why he was not impeached for either of those.

Definitely! I try to watch it around New Years every year.