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Shame about Evans, but hopefully Jack will carry the flag further.

Same with the patent for the polio vaccine. Sometimes, a great discovery is (at least initially) altruistically used.

Perhaps the UK can find something in between what it has now and the Chinese solution. Perhaps the Korean KTX model?

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-plastics-threaten-ecosystems-human-health.html Western figures of a particular type.... https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tracking-planet-real-china-high.html ... and China. Which, exactly, is the better bet towards guaranteeing the future of the biosphere going into the future?

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-heatstroke-issued-japan-temperatures-surge.html https://phys.org/news/2025-06-extreme-hot-weather-episodes-today.html The usual.

Queens when the weather is good is a lovely watch. Hopefully the Danimal can turn this one around.

See also: a variety of different scientific matters.

Good bowling attack v good batting lineup and shaky bowling attack v shaky batting lineup. Think home advantage will tell for England, but the only guarantee I would think is that as long as every Test is more than three days long, there will be results.

It's fvcking amazing what autocorrect will come up with, isn't it? That was supposed to be "before" - now corrected.

I think a lot of the world has caught onto the pattern and isn't interested in offering any kind of support for it now, either. NB. I would add as a point of order before anyone nitpicks your post that the US hasn't killed many, if any more than a handful, of Iranian nationals in this latest round of foolhardiness - yet.

No, they've just, on several occasions, used their overwhelming conventional firepower to attempt to achieve the same end - they call it "regime change". They're doers rather than talkers, apparently.

I don't know, I think 100 million Kelvin is rather temperate...

I remember someone saying something along the lines of "the whole point of a nuclear weapon lies in deterrence. The moment one is used, anywhere, it and in all likelihood all the others, become useless".

It's good communication based on logical throughput, but the intent that comes with it is, as is almost always with that man and his superior, negative.

On quite a few critical future matters, certainly. When death is on the table for a species, every single other option is better.

Is it not an established truth that stocks in certain companies with certain amoral backers get a fillip when weaponry starts being used, then? Of course it isn't good for everyone in the market, but it certainly looks like when it happens it's good for some.

Who would have thought the perpetuation of death and suffering would be profitable to those in particular positions? Shocking, I agree.

And agree with the general sentiment about seeking help where needed here, but it's true that it can be difficult to get seen in anywhere near a timely fashion right now.

Congratulations to the Saffers. Can only be good for the format.

You would think so, wouldn't you? But it seems that people are erring on the side of caution with respect to a few topics in Gen right now.

I think that's because recently such discussion have tended to result in a closed thread and sanctions for contributors.

"If it's Boeing, I'm not going", clearly.

A few of us rather jumped the gun, it would seem. Excellent from the Saffers here.

Yeah, 281 really should be enough for Oz to defend here.

And there's a stewardess that had a plane break up at 33000 feet and somehow survived the fall. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović Sometimes the god of death just says, "not today".