Back in my day we had to wait a whole fortnight for our enemies to ride up on a donkey and insult our onion harvest!

Same! My first emotion upon seeing this was “oh god, I would love that kind of solitude”…

Or a space key.

But you get two Fn keys next to each other, so it’s got that going for it.

We truly are lost…

I think he says “watch this!” before he jumps.

That Badenoch name certainly sounds very Bondish…

A few seconds into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHbCkOMH1T0

The envelopes have a too dark shade of green, are too glossy and have no return address the FBI says.

A few seconds into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHbCkOMH1T0

The envelopes have a too dark shade of green, are too glossy and have no return address the FBI says.

There is no such thing as a pineapple tree. That’s an AI image.

Pineapples grow in an even more ridiculous way.

That was magnificent…

Yes, I imagine they’d use the Arrow 3, and the US Navy could probably help out with SM3s if they were instructed to intervene.

I thought the “18” was a typo, but the Royal Navy really did put the heaviest gun they ever fielded on a carrier.

They’re saying ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles though. Those are too fast and too vertical to be intercepted with aircraft.

You can’t use triangulation for anything over a few light-years, the angles are just too acute. And even then, you need to use the full width of Earth’s orbit (i.e. repeat a measurement at different times of the year).

I think they just know what the frequency distribution normally is for a burst like this when it is emitted, and use the redshift of the measured frequencies to estimate the distance. Plus they correlate it with the apparent source based on direction (a certain galaxy, in this case, which helped confirm the distance estimate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_(weapon)

Inmates make knives out of the weirdest things.

You know what you did.

There is such a thing as Sun-synchronous polar orbits (an example).

Dread it, run from it…

That really was great, thank you!

Mmm, high tea… Haven’t played that in a while.