grant hutchison
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Yes, if Earth had no atmosphere and was equipped with some sort of frictionless racetrack around the equator, you could theoretically set down a...

Well, the fact these vaccines hijack cellular machinery at a genetic level was a legitimate cause for concern, a decade ago. It certainly seemed...

The mRNA doesn't directly induce an immune response. It codes for a SARS-CoV-2 protein, and uses your cells' ribosomes to make the cells churn out...

The problem in the specific setting I encountered (though it was far from unique at that time in Scottish culture) was that Scouting did all that...

That's a failure mode of jet engines, called compressor surge. I think it was a common problem with early jet engines, but I haven't checked. In a...

I had eight years of bullying by my noxious little peers as a child, but in that particular setting the adult supervisors were pretty much the entire...

Confined to a small, urban Local Authority Area by current lockdown restrictions, I've had to get creative to motivate myself to keep taking my usual...

Well, I described the "best case" I imagined from DaCaptain's description of the asteroid eventually "touching" the Earth--some undisclosed energy...

If your co-orbital satellite gets close to the Earth, it's going to be effectively in an orbit around the Earth, under the influence of Earth's...

Yes, relativistic length contraction doesn't work at right angles to the velocity vector. (I don't know what "slipstream" means in this context, but...

Yes, the relevant Horizons issues for the Collier's "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" series are July/August 2012 to September/October 2013. They're all...

We now know that coinfection with Covid and flu doubles your risk of dying, compared to Covid alone, but that there also appears to be a protective...

Yes, that's what I was attempting to convey by the phrase "ill-advised rant". These things should never be addressed in public, or when emotions are...

Yes, that's what I was joking about. Grant Hutchison

You could try dressing up as each other. What could go wrong? Grant Hutchison

Antapex. Yes, Aquarius. Grant Hutchison

Ah-ha. I was imagining that the student was looking at some sort of speech-to-text device. But now that you've posted this, a quick search tells me...

Cosmic microwave dipole gave me the answer on the first hit: Grant Hutchison

The asteroid is going to be orbiting faster than the Earth rotates. So--sonic boom in the atmosphere, friction with the surface of the Earth,...

It'll be interesting to see what happens in the European Union now, given that these early results from Scotland show the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine...

We're now far enough into the Covid vaccination roll-out that we're beginning to see real-world vaccine effectiveness data. (Effectiveness is almost...

There were minor contributions from the space setting--the "emotionally repressed astronaut" was already a trope, so the nature of Pitt's character...

Well, the idea is that she's not actually sociopathic, but acting out self-destructive impulses as a way of punishing herself for a certain event in...

Oops. If that's your take after two episodes, give up now--it's very much not going to get better for you. She's a tragically self-destructive...

I see people saying stuff like this, but I'm not clear on how that works. I have plenty of friends and relatives who use Facebook, WhatsApp and...

More of an expansion than an explanation on this occasion, I guess. It's difficult to actually explain why we use pluralia tantum in English,...

It's called plurale tantum (more than one example being pluralia tantum). What they have in common is that the unit is made up of symmetrical halves....

"Appeal to celebrity" seems to be a thing, but a bit of searching suggests no-one has translated into Latin. Accusative case of celebritas, though, I...

The other problem, as Caulfield points out, is that so many people assign importance to the opinion of celebrities, apparently without questioning...

I feel you guys really need to tighten up on your filter bubble. I can't remember the last time I ever heard anything about la Paltrow, except...