Yes. Amazon and Barnes & Noble monopolies, there is no price competition. Boycott both and buy from small local stores or it’ll only get worse.

Dear Football, Stop copying Football. You will never be Football.

The tube only encapsulates the vacuum on earth because earths gravity holds an atmosphere - the tube is keeping that atmosphere at bay. In space there is no atmosphere to keep at bay - the amount of matter is incredibly tiny compared to the vast distances between clumps of it.

The more bizarre thought is that in space “nothing” is holding the small amount of “somethings”.

Sell the oil while you can, old man