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Once Iran escalated to blocking Hormuz they started stepping on a lot more toes. As for the abstain rather than voting either way, my guess is the wording of the resolution goes too far but a veto supports something they won't support. Neither...

not sure how much it matters, but is it interesting that Russia and China abstained? <i dont follow UN stuff much, so that is an actual question. The United Nations Security Council adopted a draft resolution condemning Iran's attacks on Gulf...

Yes it is interesting. China would benefit from normal shipping operations resuming as early as possible. I would not expect a veto but by abstaining they perhaps intend to insert themselves as unbiased mediators toward any future peace deal by...

Now back to the actual war. The US says it destroyed Iran's space command. Experts say it wasn't much of a threat. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the existence of its own space command in April 2020 during the launch of its...

Why not both? :)

If "those who care about good science don't like what I'm doing" is a "win", there's little more that needs saying. Not that arXiv has ever been a particularly good arbiter (in particular in physics), but if they're ejecting your stuff you must...

@fizzBuzz You say "back it up": Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President's Daily Brief. That's a significant drop compared with Trump's...

All the pronouns are on full display - I established the connection between the first line I quoted in my first post and the final "it" previously, and the connection between the initial establishment of the referent to that first line in the one...

Nonsense, unless you think the "that" ending the first question refers to the report: Reporter: I new report shows. A new report says that the military investigation has found the United States struck the school in Iran. As commander-in-chief...

Just me, but I think Mellon is very serious. There are certainly those in UFOlogy that are grifters and likely a large amount of quasi-grifters, but Mellon seems to really believe this stuff. I think these Villarreol papers were a very big deal...

For some context: I've seen, for example, Avi Loeb updating a 3I/Atlas preprint with a second versioned draft of the same preprint on Arxiv, but the vague description of the Villarroel "companion papers" that were removed makes it sound...

Once Iran escalated to blocking Hormuz they started stepping on a lot more toes. As for the abstain rather than voting either way, my guess is the wording of the resolution goes too far but a veto supports something they won't support. Neither...

Which legacy would you be prouder of: "Mick West, creater of the /Tony Hawk's Pro Skater/ franchise of computer games", or "Sir Mick West, who rid the world of UFO reports"?

I'd like to know the flow network for the Iran-sourced missiles, as the path from Iran to Russia surely must have stalled. And that doesn't favour Russia.

If "those who care about good science don't like what I'm doing" is a "win", there's little more that needs saying. Not that arXiv has ever been a particularly good arbiter (in particular in physics), but if they're ejecting your stuff you must...