i think there *is* a point to be made that a lot of science - both "hard" and "soft" - is also very downstream from the *process* of finding something out. essentially "proofs are not as important as how we got there and what was found along the way."

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It’s like a pharmacologist who specializes in opioids insisting that heroin is a CNS stimulant, and everyone who denies that it’s a CNS stimulant is part of the problem.

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Yahi-uda, god damnit android keyboard.

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I should probably reserve the discussion of antenna design for when I'm sober but here is a rare drunk Elixir post: the yagi-uta tv antenna eats the signal like a tiny alligator. That's the theory.

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I wonder if you actually could fold a paperclip into that kind of shape and get a reasonable antenna, or if the precision required precludes doing that

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