Mouse lifespan is 6 months to 2 years (wild vs perfect conditions). If you are doing research like this, you could age them up naturally yourself and have full records. Heck, you could even do most experiments on artificially aged mice and then use a smaller group of naturally and mice to confirm the results.

Probably, but half of our recycling schemes area a net loss when it comes to CO2, and people still do it, because they get to feel good about themselves.

No-one wants to hear that controlled burning of paper/plastic may be better than shipping them across half the world to be treated with chemicals and then shipping it back...

Dry docks can be drained/flooded intentionally, and in some cases can float.

That being said, sinking one while it's servicing your only carrier of still pretty impressive, and the world will not Russia forget it...

Hardly end to end at all, if Google can read them, and it seems they can.

(Yeah, I know that you are technically correct, but it's not an arrangement that people would generally put in the same category as e2e.)

I mean, joining other countries wouldn't happen, but Kaliningrad isn't particularly happy with Russia. The people there aren't receiving nowhere as much support from Moscow as they would prefer.

If EU subsidised it, I could see it turning into another European microstate. Lithuanians and Poles would be quite happy to help them get started with the independence as well I imagine.

Yes, GMO refers specifically to genetically engineered products. Article doesn't use "GMO" though, just "genetically modified", which is fine as it can mean anything. It's a bit silly, but the "O" part is really important here.

You are talking Genetic Engineering. Genetic Modification can refer to that, but it also refer to any process that modifies genes, which includes stuff like artificial selection.

Selective breeding is genetic modification.

GMO is genetic modification done in some way that does not commonly occur in nature (everything to do with selective breeding does).

The article isn't taking about GMO, we were modifying plants through selective breeding for thousands of years before we knew what genes are.

The keyword in that sentence was "until". Meaning that they would have come after Taiwan eventually anyway.

Also the post doesn't try to imply in any way that Winnie the Pooh is not a wannabe dictator, because he obviously is.

Not really, no. I'm sure Hong Kong's situation contributed to it, but they started slowly changing their stance even the situation in Hong Kong started escalating.

China is becoming more and more radical, and even without Hong Kong it was becoming obvious that you need to start taking more decisive steps to keep the crazies out of your backyard.

You are seeing what you want to see. I haven't implied any of those things.

I pointed out that this is China's reaction to Taiwan reasserting their independence. I never said that this reaction is normal, and I never said that Taiwan should stop doing what they are doing.

If anything, they should build stronger ties with the West and make their stance more clear, of they don't want to end up as Hong Kong.

Not sure what you are trying to say.

This is definitely China responding to Taiwan's changed stance, but no-one is implying that Taiwan is doing anything wrong.

China was happy to leave Taiwan be until it solved the other more pressing issues, as Taiwan was pretty non-confrontational.

But in recent years, especially after Tsai came to office, Taiwan started talking openly about independence, started pushing for international recognition etc.

Can't have that. /s

Edit: added /s, maybe that will keep the witch hunters away, who keep finding pro-China arguments where there are none.

Still no idea what you are talking about.

Humanity had the capability to take pictures for so little time that on the scale of the universe earth is a point that doesn't move.

And the 11.5b years only apply to the objects really far away. How far into the objects pay we see is directly proportional to how far away the object is. The closest star is only 4 light years away, so we see it as it was 4 years ago. (Estimated) 13.3b years for the oldest point of light we found so far.

If you want to think in vectors, you have to add a fourth dimension - time. You draw a vector from earth, but you extend it over time, and for each 1 light-year of length you are turning the galaxy simulation back one year. Only the objects that intersect the tip of the vector are visible to us, nothing else is.

Now repeat that with infinite number of vectors and you have an expanding bubble. Everything on the surface of that bubble is equally old, but since objects don't move faster than light, we only have one snapshot of them.

Rarely for heating though.