Prospective international students who have watched NCIS: Sydney are going to wonder when was RAN Fleet Base East (Garden Island) torn down and replaced with high-rise apartments.

For those who don't know, it wasn't.

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Liberals and conservatives don’t really argue about the principle of merit itself, but about how to achieve it.

We like to think that abilities or talents + hard work = merit.

But in reality, *merit* is nearly impossible to disentangle from economic advantage, regardless of what you do.

Yes, Sparassidae is a family not a genus, which I would have known if I were actually an arachnologist 😅

If I were an entomologist, I too would respect all insects...by offering them an honourable death by the claws of genus Sparassidae.

OTOH if I were an arachnologist, I would respect Huntsman spiders by giving them juicy insects to eat!

"in-every-way-superior"? Yes, Pluto gets a lot of attention due to its underdog status, but absolute ranking celestial bodies like that only leads to jealousy and despair.

Each celestial body is Hot Shit when you look at what makes it special. Celebrate a diverse universe! youtu.be/kK0KPuH32mc?...

To be clear, Jupiter is not emitting the radiation. Jupiter's magnetosphere acts as a giant net that captures solar wind and cosmic rays, and collects them into belts of concentrated charged particles. Being inside these radiation belts is very dangerous for both satellites and humans.