If you have never read "The Demon-Haunted World," it is the best, most impactful book I have ever read. If I were to recommend one book for absolutely anyone and everyone to read, that is it.

It is every bit as relevant today as thirty years ago. I sincerely hope it speaks to you, like it did me.

Easier to deploy some kind of large-scale shade, than to multiply a planet's mass by nine?

Well, asking Copilot to render Marc Antony's eulogy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar as if sung by Bob Marley, or how Carl Sagan would have delivered the Gettysburg Address, can result in some genuine hilarity; however, you are quite correct I should consider the environmental impact of such hijinks.

I'm guessing a number of recently-added advisory statements begin with, "You'd think it'd go without saying that . . . "