becomingarobot

2030's seems like a long time away. What's the barrier to getting these telescopes sooner? Budgetary, engineering challenges?

There are genuine flat earthers who can't be convinced that the Earth orbits the sun.

People are incredibly good at cherry picking information and ignoring discomforting evidence. A complicated economic, social, and political question like Brexit is the ripest possible fruit for biased human thought on both sides.

Interesting reads, thanks.

I'm not from the EU and I listen to the Economist, but it's fairly hard to get a good judgement on - broadly - what the future of the EU looks like. Based on the much greater experience you have than I do, can you make any at all prediction for either a tighter, even federalized union in the future, or a more fragmented area based on national interest?

Can you recommend a good newspaper, podcast, mailing list, media etc., one can join from outside the EU that gives a well rounded, somewhat technical, perspective on important internal EU affairs?