I suspect he is in the equivalent of house arrest now, whether officially or otherwise. A pet.

1.5% per month. Don’t compare directly to your home country’s annual inflation yet. Unless you’re Turkey or Russia.

That map projection though

Russia uses his presence as a propaganda point. It also give Americans the ability to paint him as an actual traitor (by fleeing to an enemy country).

Wish he had vanished into the Canadian wilderness or something instead.

There is a largely ignored theory in anthropology that suggests that cool climates are the driver of the development of civilization. The theory was largely created to reinforce the notion that the British Empire resulted from the dreary weather in Britain, and was part of an era where cultural relativism was in vogue.

My corollary: hot weather will be the final collapse of Britain. ;)

Good luck everyone.

Best nephew

I appreciate what he did. I hate that he is in Russia.

So fluffy

At least the Falcon lineup has delivered like 2000 tonnes to orbit this year. Which gives them all the time they need to learn and experiment. But I agree, this is a Soviet era failure rate.

Sony

Someone I know was in St Petersburg last week. The government shut down the internet due to this meeting, and we totally lost touch with them. But the internet being shut down in a major Russian city to quash any attempt to protest doesn’t even make news anymore.

By approximately the wingspan of a pterodactyl

It’s not like this particular screensaver can load data, so it cannot be made to do bad things with malformed data or something. The security nightmare is only about finding a trusted copy of the original 32 bit SCR file. (Not the 16 bit one, which also exists.)

Windows asks for admin approval before copying it into system32. So you probably can’t do this in a corporate environment.

Sounds fun 😀

This is amazing!

If you’re feeling nostalgic, grab the Win95 screensaver here, and plop it in C:\Windows\System32

https://archive.org/details/ssstars_201812

Works on Win 10 and 11. Still jitters exactly as expected heh.

Linux users have clones available

Fluff piece, but yeah, conlangs in sci fi and fantasy are fun. Tolkien’s elvish being the granddaddy of them all, but special shout to Kilingon ;)

Okay. I’ve never played it. Is it fun? What is the gameplay loop like? Typical MMO grindfest?

To be fair…

None of that is good journalism, nevermind good science journalism. Bad journalism is the problem here, not bad science.

Unfortunately, regulating journalism would result in abuse and tyranny (eventually) as it removes the effectiveness of the fourth estate as a check against the government’s power. But damn – wouldn’t it be nice if journalists (and their editors) were required to at least have knowledge of the domains they cover.

And every one of those are as grounded in reality as sci fi’s agelong obsession telepaths, telekinesis, or mutants with powers.

There is a class of modern sci fi authors are all coming to terms with this.

I’d recommend checking out stories like Neptune’s Brood – sci fi which takes on interstellar economics in slower than light scenarios.

Exactly