Yeah, the last video dates to 8 years ago
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āhabitableā in the same sense as Venus or Neptune, atmosphere made of hydrogen and steam 
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But Venus has carbon dioxide. āI call it life!ā How can it be a dead world if it has the gas of life? /s
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Well, habitable, but maybe not by us.
(Starts working on where to put the āStop and Be Friendlyā sign)
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Dr. Sarah Taber pulls together bullshit science, eugenicists, molesters, money corruption, and the patriarchy in one long-but-not-really thread and it is EPIC:
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And also:
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āHabitableā is a good use of scare quotes.
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āing mosquitoes.
I know itād cause further consequences up the food chain if all of the mosquitoes in the world suddenly went extinct, but Iām almost past the point of caring.
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Are there any animals which feed exclusively on mosquitos, though?
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So the perceived noise was the result of the cognitive problems rather than the cause? Just wow.
Iām with you there. Them and ticks.
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Dragonflies primarily eat mosquitoes, but I donāt know if they are actually exclusive.
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Iām pretty sure they also eat other blood-sucking insects (blackflies, deerflies, horseflies, etc.)
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When I lived in Central America, they came around our neighborhood to fumigate one late afternoon. I grabbed my stuff and left to go somewhere else for a while, because I didnāt want to hang around in a poison fog. I left in such a hurry that I forgot to spray myself down with DEET.
Well, that is probably the evening I was infected with Dengue. About two weeks later, I went from perfectly fine to freezing cold in the sweltering heat, and bone deep pain, in the course of a couple of hours. Gratefully, a doctor lived nearby and she came to check on me, and explain that people donāt die from dengue the first time they get it, so it would suck, but Iād be much better in 6 days. Plus she gave me a packet of tylenol. The government sent someone to my home to test me for malaria, which I didnāt have. Grateful for that!
While I was in a fever and pain fugue, then they came to fumigate again, and all I could do was lay there and hope it wasnāt too much poison, because I could barely walk the 10 feet to the toilet. I spent the first two days trying to do the math in my head to convert 40 degrees C to F, because I didnāt know where a pen was. It wouldnāt have taken that long, but 40 C is 104 F, and thatās the kind of fever that interferes with thinking. It did indeed suck, but people brought me fruit and clear broth, which was all I could manage to eat. I was better at 6 days, but not back to normal energy levels for another 3 months. When I go back to visit, I take no chances and keep my DEET at all times.
All that to say, I truly hate mosquitoes. But, the fumigant is also scary, and things like that are under-regulated in many places.
Edit for typo.
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The article itself is interesting, but this hypothetical is even better:
Planet Nine hunter Konstantin Batygin didnāt rule out the idea that it might actually be something more exotic. āPlanet Nine could be a five-Earth-mass hamburger, and the math would still work out right. Of course, a hamburger has a comparable albedo,ā or how much light it reflects, āto a planet, but a black hole the size of your wallet is a bit harder to find,ā he told Gizmodo in an email. He wrote that the scenario is a stretch but not entirely implausible, and a black hole becomes an interesting potential target if Planet Nine goes unfound by typical deep surveys and if the strange motion of the trans-Neptunian objects persists.
Letās think about this for a moment.
A hamburger, and especially its bun, are not very dense, and are mostly made of proteins, carbohydrates, and oils.
A hamburger with a mass equivalent to five earths would immediately collapse on itself, and become a sphere of lava.
What happens to organic materials when you subject them to intense heat in a low-oxygen environment? Well, that almost exactly describes how you make charcoal: most of the more volatile chemicals boil off, and, by the time your planet-sized hamburger has radiated enough heat to have a solid surface, it would basically be a giant lump of carbon. A giant, black lump of carbon (which would explain why the albedo is so dark that we havenāt been able to see it yet).
I think this guy is onto something.
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The real reason Spider-Man was on The Electric Company
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I really would have thought that itād be Uranus.
ā¦ Iāll see myself out.
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