Talaraine

Nice try, ISP!

So he could time travel the way he wants to rather than being bound by an arbitrary 3 hour time limit?

Oddly specific haha

Yeah practice tests are the way. This isn't the only industry that asks ridiculous questions to keep the passing rate low.

They did. The people were starving to death. The woman's complaint was that her friend had talked her into eating their sons... but to eat hers first. When the time came to eat the friend's she played clueless about his whereabouts. The king was understandably upset at the state of affairs.

Thanks is a less formal thank you.

Maybe OP thinks that someone is dissing them by being informal?

Dunno

Honestly, learning how to make/grow things yourself and forming a community of others who do the same thing for different items is the most revolutionary act you could do in this world.

No one expects the Reaper Inquisition

What 'ruined' Christmas this year was having to go home and spend it with my parents, one of whom is bedridden and non responsive from Alzheimers. It's more akin to a wake where everyone is focused on someone who is dead and there's little joy to be had. I've been doing it now for 5 years and there's no sign that it will end soon.

It is incredibly stressful and morose. Christmas isn't really joyful anymore because Mom could die at any time. The worst part of it is that all of us recognize that she's suffering and so are we, but the government won't allow any other outcome.

Still, the family shows up and puts in the work for caring for her for many reasons, the least of which is that she raised us for almost 20 years. She was a wonderful person and she's owed that, bottom line. It is uplifting in a way because we come together and work together for a purpose and while it's hard and sad, we've bonded over it nonetheless.

But.. what kind of Christmas will we have once she's gone?

Not entirely sure what you mean, but the image in the thumbnail is taken from a video describing an old theory that stars might have a black hole at their center. It would just look like a star. You couldn't see the black hole, but they visually cut out a section allowing you to see the center.

The question of dark matter is something that is gravitational and invisible spread in patches around the universe that can't seem to be tracked. The idea of primordial black holes (that are clearly gravitational and they are invisible) fits the amount of dark matter predicted by our mathematical calculations under specific circumstances which are detailed in the video. It's a theory, it's not proven, but would answer a lot of questions.

As far as the gravitational well question... there's only so much matter that can fit into an atom sized aperature, and all the rest of the matter trying to fit in ends up rotating around the black hole so fast that it flings away other matter trying to get in. Does that help?

Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.

They're right.