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They cause a lot of light pollution of the night sky, and when they burn up they pollute the atmosphere.

It is a surprise and concerning to me. It is so wasteful and polluting. I can’t be the only one who feels like this?

The B roads the poster mentions are very likely rural and not residential, which default to the national speed limit of 60 mph for singe lane roads. Residential roads in the UK are usually 30 mph, sometimes 20 mph.

So much time and money being wasted on pseudoscientific bunkum.

Who is he criticising? It better not be Putin - look what happened to Prigozhin.

Not just the consequences of killing someone, but in the moment, do you think you could actually do it? If your answer if yes, then I hope never to meet you.

Yeah, I never know what age a grade equates to. “4th grade” - is that age 4? Seems a bit young. So, if you start school about age 4, then that would be 1st grade I guess, so 4 + 4th grade would be age 8. Is that right?

I also loved this book when I first read it as a teenager many years ago, along with the Foundation series: another great Asimov book that springs to mind is The God Themselves, which is quite unlike anything else he wrote, but fascinating too.

Unfortunately when I reread Foundation many years later, it did not stand up to my memory. One of the downsides of getting older, if not wiser.

Sadly, I think you overestimate the general interest there would be in such an announcement. Also, it is not as though we will be getting images of little green aliens, any evidence will be far more circumstantial, tentative and over many years. It will be hard to sustain any public excitement for that long.

Did teenagers even exist when it was written?

I think I will settle for not doing it for any reason.

Not just grandpa. How much of what we remember of 9/11 is accurate? How can we be sure? Is anyone fact checking our memories?

My wife and I generally eat my homemade sourdough over three days, as sandwiches and toast. By the third day it is a bit stale, but still OK for a sandwich, at which point I make some more. I use it for toast up to about five days, if there is any left (unlikely). It also freezes well, if sliced first.

I probably spend about 30 minutes every 3 days making it - obviously not including waiting time whilst proving/baking. Probably about 4 to 5 hours overall.

A lot of store sourdough bread has too open a crumb (bubbles are too big) for my preference, which makes them bland and too insubstantial to me. I prefer my bread to be a bit denser and with more substance, which equates to flavour.

I like homemade sourdough because it has a chewy, springy texture and more complex flavour, compared to other bread. I find most supermarket sourdough to be rather bland; small bakery sourdough tends to be a bit better.

This story is about the UK not the US. Pitbulls have been banned in the UK since 1991. There are not many pitbulls in the UK. Although the American XL Bully is closely related to the pitbull, it is not currently banned, but that may soon change.

So long ago now.

Voyager used to be a web app, but has now gone native too.

Anyone fancy a day-trip to Wandsworth Prison Museum?