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  • We can’t even make radio waves that travel that far. Our best radio telescopes focused on something near that we suspect might have life don’t have enough power for us to think they can be received by an arbitrarily advanced civilization on the other end (assuming there is that happens to be listening when the signals arrive). And that is stars in our own subarm of the milky way.

    Space is just bigger than you can imagine.







  • I read it for a while a few years ago, I don’t remember how far I got it. I do remember realizing that it was just a “number go up for both the hero and the monster” - nothing was really changing/new anymore even though there were more words. A good read for a while, but it gets tedious after a while and so I stopped. There are too many other books our there that are much better. A large part of better is the authors just wrote “the end” when they ran out of original ideas.









  • From looking at history this seems confined to one generation - in 1950 the “ideal family” was a man going to work 9-5, and the women staying home to cook/clean. For a while it even worked out that way for a lot of people, but over the 1960s there was a culture revolution and women started working, while men learned to help. This process is continuing on.

    Look longer over history though you see that in almost all cultures men would regularly get into situations where there were no women around to cook. Hunting, or working in the field all day often meant men and women were separated and so men had to cook for themselves if they were to eat. (women between 15 and 40 were regularly pregnant or nursing a baby - men cannot do these things, and they limit what a woman can do so some activities become men’s work.) Not to mention war which typically was mostly men, though “camp followers” did cook for the army in some cases.

    Which is to say, maybe your Grandpa didn’t cook. However that men in his generation didn’t cook was an outlier. Over history men and women both cooked.