I presume that estimation was accounting for that. The fact that signal power exponentially diminishes over distance is really challenging for us.

In the context of these distances Voyager has barely walked out the front door. It's just 0.002 Light Years away. At 100 Light Years away its signal would be 5 million times fainter than it is now, many order of magnitude below the detection threshold of any equipment that exists. No amount of listening with current technology would ever detect that energy level

I’ve seen it suggested that our most powerful telescopes would struggle with separating Earth-like signals from cosmic background noise from sources around 100 light years out. The distance could be increased if someone was intentionally focusing high powered communications directly at us wanting to be seen, but as far as detecting incidental signals it’s not very far out with respect to the the vastness of the galaxy.

In terms of searching we’ve barely looked around the galaxy. That being said, there’s about 60,000 stars within that radius. So the sample set isn’t zero.

It’s so bizarre. Humans have been successfully using “injections” to protect against disease for at least a thousand years,(back then it was live virus and human pus, today it’s highly refined and engineered nanomachines)

Like these people exist in a different reality, just total ignorance of all their own ancestors learned, destined to repeat the same obvious mistakes.

A West African born slave named Onesimus taught the practice of inoculation to his ignorant Boston owner in the 1720s when epidemics regularly swept through the colonies killing scores(this form of inoculation was the precursor to vaccines and works on similar principles).

When his owner tried to promote the practice he was met with vitriol, getting a brick thrown through his window and having papers like the New England Courant basically read like Fox News irrationally frothing at the mouth at the whole idea. By the end of the outbreak the 280 inoculated members of Boston suffered 6 deaths(2.2%) whereas 850 of 5900 non-inoculated patients died(14%)

Half a century later General George Washington unilaterally ordered the inoculation of his troops without seeking permission in part because there was still a significant contingent of the Continental Congress against the practice, with some colonies still outlawing it. He wanted to keep the operation secret from the British, but he also didn’t want to deal with clowns in Philadelphia getting dumb about it.

Unfortunately history suggests we are just this stupid as a species. Even hundreds of years ago it was still the same story

I read it. Try again.

This catalog has been alluded to over the centuries by ancient texts but no one had any surviving proof. Ancient texts make vague allusions to Hipparchus' catalog but no one had ever actually dug up the catalog itself. While the deciphered piece is only partial, it's compelling proof that Hipparchus did produce a catalog of stars, and given testimony from other ancient astronomers who saw it in whole there's good reason to believe it was exhaustive.

Ancient peoples were citing this work for centuries. It was lost at some point and scholars have been trying to find a copy for centuries. It's pretty incredible to find pieces of it written over and hidden in documents we've been sitting on the whole time

We can, it's just more lucrative to sell it. A lot of US domestic oil is relatively lighter sweet crude, the kind of crude that is easy to refine. That means it's very in demand on global markets as that's the kind of crude most countries have the technology and infrastructure to handle.

So we sell that stuff off by the boatload, and in return we bring in heavy sour crude. Why? Because it's a pain in the ass to refine, and we're one of the few countries on earth with the infrastructure to do it. Since most other places can't handle it we get it for very cheap, cheap enough that the excess refining cost isn't an issue.

>We’re supposed to have it there in case of war or Arab oil embargo.

If these things happen we can just stop exporting our domestic supply. We largely solved this problem in the wake of Katrina and the huge oil prices in the 2000s. Those shake ups and lasting high prices incentivized the reestablishment of American oil production and we rebuilt our North American supply. That's a big reason why pre-Covid prices were so low compared to the decade prior. We finally had all that 2000s infrastructure coming online.

We currently sell off much of our domestic supply as that light sweet crude sells well on international markets, but if those things you're talking about come to bear we're just going to shut down exports.

The strategic reserve is the small button intended for market corrections. We have a much bigger button to press now if things really hit the fan.

It wasn't needed. Obviously because even though we just heavily tapped it we had enough and still have plenty left, we didn't run dry.

We don't need to set our reserve policy based on what's best for the oil industry at that moment, that's beyond moronic. Likewise we don't need the government gambling on oil futures. That's the type of energy policy someone who comes up with the idea of injecting Lysol to cure Covid would come up with.

Our reserves were stocked up at that time, that wasn't about replenishing reserves, that was an obviously transparent effort to bail out oil companies/investors.

What is the point of having it if we don't use it when things get tight? This is how strategic reserves work...

> A medieval parchment from a monastery in Egypt has yielded a surprising treasure. Hidden beneath Christian texts, scholars have discovered what seems to be part of the long-lost star catalogue of the astronomer Hipparchus — believed to be the earliest known attempt to map the entire sky.

If you actually read the article you would see this is what makes it unique. The article does mention prior depictions of the night sky occurring throughout history, but these are always just a handful of celestial bodies that were important for those cultures. This text in contrast was intended to be a rigourous mapping of every object that could be seen.

If they thought that they probably wouldn't be publicly traded companies. One of the big reasons for publicly traded companies is that it limits liability for owners when the cards inevitably come tumbling down. The structure is set up to cushion failures and redirect money to new ventures as times change.

Humanity has been watching companies grow and die for longer back than we have preserved written records exist. Our entire system today is built with the recognition that these things don't last. The execs at these companies know that as well as you do.