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HA HA HA. This was quite the attack! Not the one on the Woke girls (that´s trivial on *this* side of the sub-political spectrum), but the diss of right-wing conspiracy theories as "stoners" high on "green crack", et cetera.
Our man Sheridan suspects that a certain kind of paranoia within that milieu is the last stage before full-on hash psychosis. I´m frankly inclined to believe him. If we assume that over half of the denizens of the proverbial interwebs are alcoholics, drug addicts or clinically insane, much can be explained.
Except for one thing. Why the heck are the rest of us listening?
Ligger ju något i detta. Förenta Staterna LARP-ar anti-kommunism á la kalla kriget, Ryssland LARP-ar anti-fascism á la andra världskriget och kalla kriget, medan de nya eliterna i den f.d. tredje världen låtsas vara något slags militanta nationella frihetskrigare. Finns det historiska exempel på samma sak? "Alla" låtsades vara romare hundratals år efter att det (latinska) romarriket upplösts. Liket lever, uppenbarligen.
I´m not *that* much of an astronomy nerd, but I suppose this Neptunian odyssey could be of some interest. For instance, that Neptune isn´t really an "ice giant" but also contains a lot of rock...and maybe even new and exotic forms of matter, which just await being harvested by our satellites in AD 2040.
Yeah, so about that...
More intriguing (and potentially disturbing) is the observation that Neptune is currently going through some kind of cooling event, its temperature dropping by about ten degrees anually since 1989. Note also the hypotheses about Neptune´s moons. It seems Triton was captured after the original moon´s had already been formed, essentially smashing most of them in a veritable moonpocalypse. Nereid might be the only original Neptunian satellite left.
Anton implies that the way in which "the minor giants" Uranus and Neptune were formed may have implications for the "exoplanets" and "super-Earths" everyone is hyped up about. But again: what does that mean? More likely to harbor life, or less likely?
Auroras and ancient moonpocalypses may have some kind of intrinsic interest, but isn´t *this* what we are really looking for? Life. Or the meaning behind it. Except the insane cornucopians, who can´t wait laying their hands on all that exotic tungsten...
Damn. It seems to be official now: the mysterious object 3I/ATLAS isn´t an alien probe (pun unintended) but an entirely natural object. A kind of comet, in fact, made of "heavy water" and other mundane substances. Blasted!
On the positive side, the comet could be 12 billion years old (!) and give us clues to how solar systems were formed in the early universe ("early" if you believe in the Big Bang). Clue: probably not as ours. It struck me that this could have some kind of consequences, too. For instance, does it make it more likely or less likely that alien star systems might harbor intelligent life (or any life)?
