The take-away is that higher temperatures with low humidity are more deadly than previously thought, so that you can have deadly heat below the wet bulb threshold.

Probably not pure mercury but one of the extremely nasty mercury compounds that is easily absorbed through the skin. The victim was very sick.

I feel we could get a much better bang/buck ratio by shooting him down to Venus along with a sensor package. Far less expensive, and the live broadcast of his horrific demise would probably go some way to defraying costs as well.

“Basic” in The Expanse is not UBI. It’s means-tested.

Removed by mod

“We fired everyone at our company that made the game a success and won’t be going with the studio that shot new life into the entire brand, but the next one will be great!”

Sure, assholes.

No, they are the victims in a program of genocide.

People doing genocide have no right to safety.

Constantly. However I have mapped my left control key so that if I tap it, it sends Escape.

Shitty cult continues being shitty; film at eleven.

According to the article search and rescue was “unsuccessful” so we may assume all hands were lost. However bad, it was their last. I know these aren’t necessarily very fine people or anything, but I mourn what might have been if they didn’t go to the service of a futile and costly invasion.

More trash both-sides shit from the utterly craven NYT.

Fair point

Why does she have a hedgehog

If you’re not joking, you’re delusional.

This is a deliberate and largely coordinated program of genocide. We need to say it.