If you want to participate in society, follow the social contract. If you don't want to follow the social contract, you don't get to participate as fully in society. This applies as much to actively violating the social contract via theft and violence as it does in negligence. You have no right to risk my kids' health for the sake of your beliefs.
GreyEyedGhost
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Measles cases were on a steady rise before COVID. They just got a bump from the anti-vax crowd being given further ammunition, coupled with one group deciding public health during a pandemic should be made into a political football. In fact, the year with the highest number of cases in recent times was 2019, the year before COVID was on most people's radar. It also saw a major drop the next year, likely due to all the physical distancing.
There is a definite chicken and egg issue here. Until you've established a firm foothold in space, bringing resources back from space just isn't economical. Likewise, until we have a truly cheap way to get materials from earth into space, it just isn't worth it, either. Starship or similar will help, but there are long-term problems with using rockets to get stuff into (or back out of) space. But, once we have that foothold, there is a vast amount of resources on the moon and elsewhere that is pretty cheap to get into the neighborhood of earth. There are even ways to do this that don't use rockets, although we need to do more research to get these right.
Once we have that foothold, and either start colonizing space or make it even cheaper to access than starship hopes to achieve, a decades-long mining operation to free up highly valuable resources to ship back to earth while also freeing up large amounts of resources that would cost too much to ship from earth to build infrastructure in space, could become viable.
I wish I believed that would happen in my lifetime, but I hope it happens in my children's.
I was going to go off on you about pitching about a show you don't like and telling everyone they're objectively wrong if they disagree, but then I noticed this is unpopular opinion. So, this is the right place. Carry on.
While all that may be true, this isn't Putin's first reelection. And he already dealt with Navalny, so the point was already made. I'm not saying he's subtle, but he has a lot of experience on this front, and I don't think he would waste the effort for the election when he has a war that needs to be supported.
I personally think this was done by IS but Putin isn't one to not take advantage of a disaster for his personal gain, even if he didn't orchestrate it.
Probably what that viking said the night before.
Cosmic radiation is pretty easy to stop. 100 miles of atmosphere, about 10 feet of water, or a few feet of rock will do just fine. There is a lot of rock on the moon.
Nothing in space will really help with the climate crisis, imo. It will help humanity a lot if we get past it, tho.
I was going to say near misses are usually classified as passing withing the orbital distance of the moon, about 225k miles, or 250k miles for convenience.
Single best reason to buy parmesan flakes or chunks.
Also important to know if you have a wood/smoke allergy.
Upvoting in solidarity.
I can agree with everything you said here, but read most of the posts and comments in atheist communities and tell me most of them aren't at least somewhat anti-theist.