the LITAVR interceptor drone could lock onto a target by itself during the final stage of flight

Sounds like a classic ramming. I think drones are still too battery-constrained to become reusable.

“These planets were always going to be hostile, because they’re really close to their star” said Byrne, “Even the outermost planet orbits ten times closer than Mercury orbits the Sun. When you’re that close to your star, and have such little gravity, your atmosphere just gets blown off.”

The researchers say that the planets could have held on to their atmospheres for at most two billion years – much shorter than the system’s 10-billion-year age. Their results are reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Being so close to the star has another consequence for the planets: the researchers found that the planets are all tidally locked. In the same way that the Moon only shows one face to the Earth, the Barnard’s Star planets each only show one face to their star. As a result, each planet has one hemisphere locked in eternal daylight; the other, eternal night.

E’s not dead! Just pinin’ for the fjords, you see!

What are you talking about, he’s totally alive. He can even wave his hands for you. Wave your hand, Mitch! There, see, he waved!

That orbital photo seems to be a photoshop of a Mount Etna eruption: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-etna-smoke-seen-from-space-169274368.html

I wouldn’t have guessed it either! I had to move around the room before I could triangulate where it was coming from. And it was surprisingly loud (well, relatively) for how small the little chewer was…

I had a wild baby snail as a pet for a brief stint, and one of the things I didn’t expect was that at night I could actually hear him munching on the cabbage leaves I left for him. It was a periodic scruunch scruuunch scruunch.

I believe they eat by rubbing a sandpaper-like surface of many teeth on the food, but it still sounded like he was chewing with his cheeks full.

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Taiwan, by contrast, has treated its defense as something to be supplied rather than constructed.

A lot of people are saying it!

That wouldn’t make much economic sense. It’d be like using heroin to cut cocaine (I’m trying to say something similarly priced, not sure if my example fits).

“Farewell” works for that purpose in English. And since you reminded me, that’s the meaning of “sayonara” too – you’re not supposed to use it for casual goodbyes.

That’s a very weird concept for a comic. Sounds like even the artist had second thoughts about it.

Imagine, the rapist preaching empathy to his victim… You really are shameless.

I don’t understand what empathy you believe is justified here. Empathy for a supporter of the invaders? Empathy for a settler probably stealing a home from someone? Does that make sense to you?

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That’s exactly what they’ve been doing the past while actually, bending Ukrainian drone trajectories into European countries… https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-can-falsify-gps-signals-deep-into-europe-lithuania-says-2026-05-26/

Japan looks at the whole-world flag…

We already tried that. You guys didn’t like it.

Thank you. The text was cut off halfway in the article by a pop-up, and I’d thought that was all of it.

Both of these groups have done painstaking searches for such autoantibodies - the first finding candidates targeting skin and epithelial tissue, the second (looking closely at patients with neurological and cognitive symptoms) targeting neural and endocrine tissues. It’s believed that the skin/epithelial autoantibodies may well be targeting nerve endings in those tissues, so there could be an overall neurological component to Long Covid in general.

If you enter “do not touch” in an online braille translator it produces the characters for ,d n t|* for some reason…