Readit NewsSo perhaps my expectations are not being met? Unfortunately I don't have time to pay attention to everything.
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who actually did swim 6km in freezing waters after his vessel sank in 1984..
They used their interstellar flight capabilities to go wait for someone in the universe to develop interstellar flight capabilities. Checks out.
I don't know if it was this book, but the 'suspended animation' was basically pushing several large stars and neutron stars close enough together that the flat space between them was inside an encompassing event horizon, and there they waited, living their lives at an extremely slow (compared to the outside universe) pace.
As a former Boy Scout with a lot of experience in knots/lashing etc, I was VERY curious to see what kind of ropes, knots and lashing they use.
Turns out it's just some flat nylon ribbon and mostly a couple quick wraps and overhand knots.
Really is amazing that it all stays together. I imagine the friction between the ribbon and the wood surface of the bamboo must be high enough to be "sticky".
I've got used to how scanty UK scaffolding is now but at first it worried me that it would not be robust enough.
You could build houses from bricks, timber or poured concrete that all looked the same in the end. Their internal structures and methods of construction would be different, but they would have the same form.
I'm reading the GP's comment similarly.
I've seen stuff on youtube, I've seen internet articles, I've seen thinly veiled references but this is a respectable organisation reporting what they have seen, on the front page.