“Tim… how high did you say you turned up that signal? This planet did have oceans a while ago, didn’t it?”

As I understand, it turns out the probe was listening and even replying, but it was replying with a whisper instead of a shout (it hadn’t turned on an amplifier) and we couldn’t hear it.

Oof. Look at the seating positions at that table. Things have changed, but that’s not a good look, glancing back. Europe has some guilt for the current situation. I hope we continue to move firmly towards repairing it.

NO TANKY

Ah ok.

Came here to comment on that. Why are the last two lines crossed? So unnecessary.

It’s not even about the high road, it’s that it wouldn’t help end the war at all. It would most likely hinder it, by wasting resources and increasing popular support for the war among Russians.

Russia can totally win. A peace of compromise, full of territorial concessions, lack of reparations or security guarantees… any of these things are a victory for Russia and a disastrous defeat for Ukraine and Europe.

Russia can absolutely win if serious measures are not taken very decisively. We are on a precipice.

It’s just dawned on me how restrained and controlled the color palette is in Oglaf. Especially in this strip. It gives the whole series a recognizable, distinguished look. Probably encourages attention to the story. And color transitions punctuate the punchline.

'twas a smidgen wilder than usual, frankly.

Initial analysis suggests that the object – referred to as TWA 7b – could be a young, cold planet with a mass around 0.3 times that of Jupiter (~100 Earth masses) and a temperature near 320 Kelvin (roughly 47 degrees Celsius). Its location aligns with a gap in the disc, hinting at a dynamic interaction between the planet and its surroundings.

Debris discs filled with dust and rocky material are found around both young and older stars, although they are more easily detected around younger stars as they are brighter. They often feature visible rings or gaps, thought to be created by planets that have formed around the star, but such a planet has yet to be detected within a debris disc.

Once verified, this discovery would mark the first time a planet has been directly associated with sculpting a debris disc and could offer the first observational hint of a trojan disc – a collection of dust trapped in the planet’s orbit.

TWA 7, also known as CE Antilae, is a young (~6.4 million years old) M-type star located about 111 light-years away in the TW Hydrae association. Its nearly face-on disc made it an ideal target for Webb’s high-sensitivity mid-infrared observations.

How you doin’?

You take out a third of our airforce? Haha! Watch as its place is taken by TWO remaining thirds!

I wanted Starship to happen too. Wanted. Not anymore. And I suspect a similar change happened among Musk’s engineers. They’re gonna bleed him dry and let someone else take the lead.

There are multiple reasons. Raw materials or chemicals feature lower profit margins than end-stage weapons. They also leave massive environmental footprints, particularly of nitric and sulphuric acid, which are key to making everything from nitrocellulose to RDX.

Poor octopuses. They’re not a real danger to humans so we shouldn’t find them creepy or repulsive. Unfortunately for them, they look like a crossover between two things we evolved to stay away from: spiders and snakes.

Andreyi… You’ve lost another su-25arine?!

Is that damage on the panel’s upper-right? Looks like a “splash” of white dust on the rim.

EDIT: no, probably a reflection.

Was there a recent assault by Russia? Those vehicle and drone numbers are twice as big as usual, no?

The thing is, the situation is not that they’ll run out of tanks one certain day and then stop fielding them completely. What’ll happen (what’s already been happening actually) is that seeing the end of their stocks approaching they’ll taper out their use. That’s been happening for a year now: we’re seeing lower and lower tank losses in each of these reports because they’re simply not using them so much anymore. Because they don’t have as many and don’t want to risk what’s left.

When their old stocks are completely used up (for all practical purposes) we’ll only see new-build armor, in correspondingly low volume. They’re never going to not have tanks at all.