Earthlings need to leave planet demolition to us professionals.
“Although NASA agreed that Voyager 2 ‘seemed lonely’ they decided against launching a companion orbiter mission after further measurements indicated that the spacecraft actually preferred the peace and quiet.”
“Atmospheric transmission spectroscopy has revealed that the sunsets from the observatory are really pretty.”
The underlying point being that the thought that we can shit this nest in the coming decades and centuries and plausible escape at least some of humanity to another planet is nonsense.
Maybe in a few millennia we’d have some ability to colonize elsewhere. As long as we don’t experience significant societal disruption between now and then. If only.
I feel like I’ve already seen this comic, or one very much like it, from XKCD…
“I’m doing really well on the Hertzsprung-Russell academic diagram, which has spectral class on one axis and Rate My Professors rating on the other.”
“I don’t see why people have trouble doing this at room temperature. Using hot rivets would honestly have been MORE work.”
What would they use for the neutrinos?
Pushpins?
Other numbers are largely unaffected, but anyone using '4' for their certificate key is urged to upgrade to '5'.
This is why the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter couldn’t be that integer.
Ah, yes, “The Secret Number”, by Igor Teper. Though Borges did it first, to be fair.
Oh, dear! Do I have to change my three passwords again now?
Your post got garbled. How many passwords?
It’s worse for me, I have bleem passwords.
TREE(0), TREE(1) and TREE(2) were just fine. But then…
This is even worse than the time we had to say “dickety” because the Kaiser had stolen our word “twenty.”
It’s why ole Abe had to say “four score”.