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What year is it? How many fingers am I holding up?

I’m reminded of the BLM protests. One group asks for agents of the state to stop murdering black people so often. The other group ignores that issue entirely trying to get us to focus instead on the one guy in Portland who broke a window while out among the other tens of thousands of peaceful protestors. Good times.

Minkowski spacetime does not contain any sources of gravitation. If you add such sources, you will get spacetime geometries other than Minkowski.

Indeed. Endorphins are very powerful. I’ve been growing my own selection of peppers and fermenting them into a mash base that I put on nearly everything. Absent that, Sriracha is like my ketchup. 🌶 No thanks. I love spicy food, but not so much that you can’t taste anything else… for a week. My BIL grew those last year and couldn’t even really cook with them. It was a waste, but YMMV

It does sound similar to the fawn and the baby seal mentioned earlier. I guess mothers can't take any chances.

I once held this view, and to a certain extent it served a purpose. But in recent years I've come to think differently. Whatever else it does, life appears to be an extremely efficient way of producing novel structures from simpler lower entropy resources. And not just by the evolutionary process of 'faulty' self-replication, but also in the reshaping of local environments, and now exponentially so in the products of our technologies. As agents of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, life processes appear capable of converting homogeneity to diversity many orders of magnitude more effectively than non-biological processes. And while the 2nd Law does not consciously create each new biological structure (obviously), it spontaneously redistributes energy flows away from preexisting pathways and into any new outlets made available to it, and hence actively favours and fuels evolutionary divergence. The 2nd Law favours us because we provide it with new avenues to explore, and has provided us with a broad array of individual drives and preferences to maximise the production of those new horizons. So ... ... existentialism appears to be strongly encouraged by the 2nd Law. Even if it can seem a little scary at times.

They sent both of them ? What will they use for their air shows ? Give it a rest; they are not in series production yet, and may never be.