Consider supermassive black holes. They are the largest entities in the universe and they exist in nearly every galaxy. They aren’t going to get appreciably bigger, if they aren’t big enough to bang, what is?

Then by what mechanism do you propose an incredibly deep gravity well could spit out bulk stuff?

I’m taking the null hypothesis, you’re the one with a claim to prove

The word I used was “supported by” the ISS does not have wings and does not have a buoyancy system, they are falling

The plane is riding on wings you can tell it is not falling because you feel your full weight when riding one

I don’t think you could exhaust the waste heat of a civilisation in a black hole. Perhaps a civilisation living in computers could, but not a biological one

I don’t think black holes can make big bangs

I wasn’t talking about need or ability, only exposing themselves to extra risk, failing to discover important discoveries because they don’t explore ideas. I’m sure I wasn’t perfectly clear.

That’s small enough. They evaporate quicker the smaller they are

Try not eating as much sugar. I haven’t had heartburn since I went zerocarb*, though I suggested from that pretty badly on my previous diet

*not actually zero carb, just really really low carb, zero fibre.

The centripetal force is provided by your legs (and the spokes of the centrifuge)

You’re looking for inertia or the fictitious force (which makes the calculations easier): centrifugal acceleration

Bottle rather than cup, the water is more directed

You are likely right. Dog shaped but cat related

It’s exactly 1cm short, oddly wrong

I have had that experience, then I realised I used oauth on that site. CTRL+refreshed the page and it did the auto login. No idea how I got a log in prompt that one time; probably clicked login before the page finished loading

The site had disabled password login for users who had changed to oauth

When one provides correction for someone is much better to do that than to reply “*whose”

You don’t need to read it if you don’t want to

It’s very tempting to use that (maybe with several random usernames to select from) as the insufficiently strong password error message

It’s probably just a little too user hostile though

Many of those will progress to password even if the user doesn’t exist

I found all of them

Edit to add: thank you for an hour of fun

Funnily enough loads of places had plans to get off fossil fuels a couple of decades ago, but those were squashed by conservative politics because they were seen as “green”

I wonder whether they would have been more successful had they been done for energy security instead

It’s a shame that they last so much better than internal combustion cars, if more people replaced them every two years like they do for ICE vehicles there would be many more on the second hand market

As it is now second hand EVs are barely cheaper than new

And sometimes just about anything in Unicode and a few that aren’t

I have done the romance bits with all of them. Lae’zel is the most fun, Gale is the sexiest, Shadow is all promise then cut to the morning after