I’m not able to find it again, so it may be entirely bunk, but I remember reading something about the Japanese during early interactions having a stereotype that Europeans didn’t bathe. Obviously this contact was past the medieval stages, but then that makes me ask “Did hygiene become less popular later?”

So, now I’m curious whether this memory is:

A) Pop culture contamination/made up whole cloth, i. e. an author who believed medieval people didn’t bathe and extrapolated it to the 1500s.

B) True, and hygiene did become less popular with Europeans (seems unlikely).

C) Born of the fact that people who have been at sea for so long are not a good representation of overall hygiene.

D) Born from a another factor unrelated to hygiene, but perceived as such by the Japanese. Maybe differences in sweating or diet or something.

E) Some combination of the above.

Contrary to their name, they are not, in fact, not made of butter.

If Elon Musk is looking for more money pits to throw cash into, baseless law suits against Disney is certainly the way to go.

My guess would be narration by Murderbot’s actor for the inner monologue.

The systems communication might partially be handled like how most things handle text messages, with the word bubbles.

I wonder if they’ll commit to hiding the actor’s face most of the time.

Hallucinations while half-asleep are a well known phenomenon, so it’s very possible.

If you’re trying to know for certain, that’s harder. You’ll have to consider a lot of things. Not all of them are likely, so how much digging you do is dependent on how concerned you are.

Do you live alone? I assume you do, or already asked the people you live with.

Are all your exterior doors and windows locked? Is anything missing or out of place? I think you’d have already noticed if you’d been robbed, but this is easy stuff to rule out.

Do you have functioning Carbon Monoxide detectors? Do you have sleep apnaea? CO can lead to memory loss, sleep apnaea can contribute to sleep paralysis.

Have you seen your door open while half asleep before? If this is recurring, you can do things like place hairs in the door that will fall if it opens.

Have you done a sleep study? This can help determine if your REM cycle is frequently disrupted and if you need something like a CPAP.

There may be a better way, but I use the option to extract the file to a new folder with the same name as the zip file.

Unfortunately this is a rather open ended question. We’re constantly discovering new things. The James Webb Space Telescope has only been fully functional for a short while but has already provided tons of new info.

Generally knowledge like this is similar to starting with a really low res photo that gets progressively more high res with each decade.

For example, the band of the Milky Way galaxy we can see in the sky was suggested to be made of stars itself in 5th Century BC by Democritus. In 964 AD, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi recorded observations on the Andromeda Galaxy and Large Magellanic Cloud. 1610, Galileo confirms the Milky Way band is indeed made of stars. 1923, Edwin Hubble proves galaxies are “island” clusters of stars.

We’ve also had to rely on Newtonian Physics to describe things for a long time, but then it started being noticed that while consistent for practical things on earth, they couldn’t accurately predict things on the scale of the universe. Einstein’s general theory of relativity helped explain most of this, but still has some gaps.

Black holes were proven in the last century, but we got the first visual confirmation just a few years ago. Redshifting proving that galaxies are moving away from each other is also in the last century.

So at this point we have measurements on the general chemical make up of the universe, its size, its rate of expansion, the formation of galaxies, and how old it is starting from a specific event.

These measurements are ranges though, and those ranges get more narrow the better our instruments and the new info we get. It’s like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar. Your first guesses can be way off because you have to eyeball, but then you’re allowed to measure the volume of the jar and the volume of a single jelly bean. You’ll be way closer than before. Then you’re allowed to measure the weight of that jelly bean and that jar. You’ll probably be a little closer. Then you’re given a variety of jelly beans to measure, so you get averages instead of basing everything on a jelly bean that might be an outlier.

So, in a binary way we don’t have the exact right answer for a lot of the universe, but each new discovery trends toward us being more correct than we were before.

There’s also Cleo from Math StackExchange. They’d drop answers to complex problems in a couple of hours with no work shown. It took another mathematician days and several pages of work to prove out one of Cleo’s answers.

I would argue that this is worldnews in that (if I understand it correctly) this impacts foreign travelers too, even those simply making connecting flights.