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He mostly used it for two things. One, as all rich people do, to donate money to their own foundations to save taxes. Second, to push his thoughts and interest on what should be research and what shouldn't.
He didn't do either of these things overtly (e.g. as Musk for the latter), but still Billionaires do Billionaire stuff.
Probs also might have helped his image with Billionaire friends and the public.
There are plenty of times when his funding things interfered. Alas there are for sure times when his funding things helped, but no one individual should posses such power.
No age is fine. Being in a relationship with sbd to brag about their body or age only is weird
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Maybe the point is that to both of these are status symbols even though deplorable (both actually but the dating a 29 year old moreso)
So it doesnt say in this article, but the police and the local population were informed weeks before.
Not sure why the Bundeswehr fired at the policemen (albeit practice ammunition) -- weird, but the police is incompetent here.
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I mean, fair point. i was mainly thinking of temples and stuff where you can run around without having to go inside.
If you look at stuff in Kyoto at 5 am in the morning (or earlier) it is nice and empty.
Source lived in the Region for a year
He means regular money would be worthless as well as stocks and such. And as rich people own gold, but own much more of the other, he argues they would like to avoid collapse.
However, I don't think they really can. Also, if it comes to recession very rich people tend to profit.
Astronomer here, not necessarily. Generally, heat death just means entropy goes maximal, as in everything is as spread out as it can be and the heat everywhere in the universe is the same.
Not sure if on those time scales all gets sucked up by BH
Sure. Generally, it is a marker for life as we see it being produced by living organisms on Earth (e.g. Algae) and it also should vanish quickly from atmospheres if it is not replenished.
However, as you correctly put it, there may always be a non-biological explanation as well for any of these markers, which we might not know as of yet. So far as I know, DMS has no non-biological explanation and is seen as a biological marker still.
Alas, the possibility of it being proven non-biological or even (as happend here) not a real detection makes it even more important to get more data and be very careful about the statements made from it than as otherwise those statements and/or connected papers have to be corrected/retracted. And if these then reach the public (and why wouldn't they with the possibility of alien life) then this could diminish the trust in science if it turns out to be wrong.
Edit: I had a look and as you stated for DMS there may indeed be abiotic ways to produce it (scientific works from this year). They found it in comets and could reproduce it in labs as well.
My main point of the original comment was to add that the detection (paper) itself was flawed. Regardless of DMS being a sign of life.
Astronomer here, the "life detection" on K2-18b was dimethyl sulfide (DMS) which may be ̶I̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶a̶i̶n̶s̶ a marker for life. What you get from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is raw data that needs to be treated and calibrated to some extent to be usable in scientific study. This is called data retrieval.
However, the lead scientist on this paper claiming they found DMS basically used his own very specific way to do it and found very very weak signals in that way. Other scientist tried to both reproduce it in the way he did it and also with their ways to retrieve the data, but couldn't find anything. So it turns out, it was simply a non-detection.
Edit: It might be the case that DMS can be produced abiotically (scientific works of this year) as chosensilence pointed out correctly.
My main point is, that the DMS detection itself was a non-detection in this case