The 1,300mph+ wind speeds on Neptune are due to the nearly-frictionless environment caused by the extreme cold of the planet. Don’t need much energy when you’ve got little resistance.

Quantum theory makes a whole lot more sense if you just go ahead and think of everything as a field.

The majority of our non-industrial economy has emerged from a few US government programs funded from the late 1950s up through the early 1980s. And funded with not even that much money, comparatively.

Think about the implications of that. They are rather broad and disheartening — and not because the “evil government” did something, but rather we show no inclination to do something similar today.