Are these really power plants? I thought they were called field or farm or something else

Every damn power plant is a glorified steam engine

I wonder how it compares with an abacus, in terms of practicality and accuracy. Never used one or the other…

Excellent! You can be proud of your accomplishment. Make sure to connect with loved ones and to find a time-consuming hobby in order to avoid the post-thesis depression.

I think one of the universal rules in science is that whatever you observe is going to be modified by said observation

Wow, great read, thanks!

. Pauli’s sharp tongue was legendary; he once said about a bad paper: “This isn’t right; this isn’t even wrong.”

That’s MY type of scientist!

Didn’t know she and Einstein met… Where is it? Somewhere in Europe I presume

Is this Marie Curie on the front row?

How much is it in bananas?

Sorry mate, but I’m not going to cross the pond to protest North American billionaires building their own privates armies, only to see my poor ass deported in a private-own penitentiary in the jungle. I’ll protest my own power-hungry scumbad billionaires at home.

His own security agency - sounds like a new Wagner in the making

Wait till winter so that you don’t mess up with this year’s reproduction process.

How do you call this species?

Directions unclear, opened a gate to the multiverse

What the?

OK, thanks! As a quasi alien to the Star Trek universe, I humbly accept your explanation!

OK, now I get it! Good old capitalism strikes again

I’m out of the loop on this one but I will seize the opportunity to say all the bad things I think about that book.

First, the writing is overly complicated with no other apparent objective than to confuse the reader with extremely long and circumvented sentences.

Second, the story is constantly chopped with long and boring chapters that are solely informative on various aspects of sperm whale anatomy, ecology, behavior (riddled with dated errors andmisinterpretations), as well as whaling specifics, ranging from the work of the carpenter to the process of removing the head of whales.

The first duty of a story is to entertain, its second is to instruct. Good writers manage to do both seamlessly. Melville makes a total messout of it, breaking the fourth wall when explaining how hard it is to collect accurate information, citing his sources in the body of the texte, and completely losing the interest of the reader in the process.

There.

I’m trying to finish it for the sake of it. It is painful.

Might be the case, don’t know any other