It's good that Krebs (and other headline writers) name Trump directly - if Trump takes credit he should also take responsibility for any failure(s).

This is a litany of disasters waiting to happen! Holy cow has the US decided not to do emergency prep, or mitigate any known potential problems?

If SO comes up in search results, I visit it. But I should also add that I usually skip reading "AI" results or summaries. There's usually nuance in SO questions and answers that "AI" leaves out.

That's a Canon Pixma. They very deliberately don't work with Linux, and they suck. Terrible printers.

"Targeted" is doing a lot of work in this headline. "Assassinated" is probably closer to the truth, given that all or most of these scientists weren't uniformed combatants.

You'll be pleased to see that the Post makes up for that by not distinguishing Hamas combatants. But they're not in uniform either so there's that.

And they didn't work on a nuclear bomb, because Iran only has a civilian nuclear program, since they were not uniformed. It's all very convenient when what something is is defined by the label on it rather that its true nature.

Not again! This kind of "learned but arrogant scientist takes on the mystery of Life" stuff is tedious, and almost always ends up trying to justify Christian creationism of one kind or the other.

A substack post that consists of a YouTube video. Low effort. Does not deserve to be on HN.

With any luck, a Trump multi-crisis will get the US to finally adopt SI units.

Aerospace industry has a long history of missing lower cost/kg to orbit. I'm extremely suspicious of $500/kg, which is about a third of today's cost.

OTOH SpaceX has a pretty good history of undercutting the industry on cost. If Starship full reusability works I would be very surprised if it only lowered launch costs by a factor of three. Of course it's not guaranteed to work, but clearly SpaceX's orbital datacenter plans are predicated on Starship working.

SpaceX has never met any milestone that Elon has ever set.

OTOH they have achieved many things that experienced people said were impossible or would never make financial sense.

OTOH they have a huge batshit crazy fanbase of boot lickers who are so gullible they'll believe and parrot anything Elon says.

SpaceX created reusable rockets that can fly back to the launch platforms and land gracefully. Hard to blame people for becoming fans. Before them stuff like this only existed in kerbal and sci-fi.

Becoming a fan of someone or something is great!

Accepting everything they then do, forever, even when it's obviously nonsense, is what gets you called a "huge batshit crazy fanbase of boot lickers".

This "idea" is great party conversation. It's probably doing a great job of shoving around the Overton window, too (perhaps the real goal here?). It's, uh, not realistic, and anyone who is seriously "all in" on it (you're allowed to consider it and to dream, that's not the same as being all in) is not worth taking seriously no matter how much of the oxygen in the room they're using up.

Never on time, but always eventually.

...on time.

the first booster landing after delivering a payload to orbit was quite something and made a serious stir in the industry.

"Professor Frank's research is in the general area of Theoretical Astrophysics, and in particular the hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic evolution of matter"

In other words, not a biologist, not a chemist, not a geobiologist.

My hackles go up on this kind of article because the central mystery of alive/dead is what drove all the research and all the experimentation that got us to where science is on the issue.

Beyond that, "hidden mysticism that scientists ignore" is almost always a Creationist foot in the door.

I'm not saying this guy is a Creationist, and this article is an opening for the introduction of fundamental Christian creationism, but that's the way to bet.

But as Faraday said, "Nothing is too wonderful to be true."

I thought the same thing! The way I would put it, is creationism is a cautionary tale for what concepts are most ripe for exploiting by pseudoscience. Which should be a lesson for all of us about not being fast and loose with "more is different".

I'd like to see a prediction market that let you make money on guessing the author of a Marginal Revolution post, based on knowing the title.

I got this one wrong, I guessed Cowen.