pro lab leak: 1, WIV being 10 miles from the outbreak area 2, WIV housing dozens if not hundreds of strains of coronaviruses 3, poor bio security / laboratory technique amongst WIV staff 4, previous incidents of accidental leaks in Chinese labs

does it conclusively establish that the virus leaked from WIV? no. but i’d say it at least moderately probable…

i never heard of the postdoc owning the IP. it's always the university

more experts would be a good thing, if there was money for them. no point in producing phds if they don't get the resources to do research (including a respectable salary)... as it stands now academia is almost a scam (phd+ level)

why not have a 100 feet buffer clear of vegetation around housing? seems like an easy fix.

it's a disgrace that a university administrator makes over a million a year... in a public school to boot

Look up how much other(k-12) school administrators make, then look at how many administrators there are now(middle and high schools now have multiple principles and vice principals). Education spending is at an all time high, teacher pay is still low and the results haven't gotten better.

People complain about Teacher Unions all the time but I would hazard that the problem is the creeping middle management.

a country debt is not like household or business debt. the only way US can default on its debt is if a bunch of idiots in washington DC decide to do so.

11, for an immigrant who overstayed their visa he sure has some spicy views on immigration

so the interpretation happens inside the soul? otherwise it matters very little if a specific computation happens in a silicone chip or a human neuron...

how many times in life do you experience AD hits from within a plane as a pilot/passenger? how would they know what to expect? it's clear that the missile hit the back of the plane (tail / fuselage), how would the pilot know whats happening besides losing hydraulics?

AD rocket, by design, inflicts catastrophic damage even on military aircraft that have far better survivability. Even 10K rounds per minute autocannon of the Pantsir would generate such a dense cloud of shrapnel it'd be difficult to mistake it for "birds", especially for the pilots.

the plane probably got hit by a pantsir missile, not autocannon fire. the damage is consistent with a proximity fuse warhead detonation. mh17 had exactly the same type of holes, except the buk missile is more powerful...

That'd be a first, if that's the case. To the best of my knowledge to date there haven't been any other cases where a civilian plane was hit by an AD missile and continued to fly. I can't find anything on Google either. The closest thing we got is flight TWA 840 in 1986 on which flew with a gaping hole in the fuselage, but that wasn't AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_840_bombing

well then it's a first. i don't find it that unbelievable that a missile detonates near a plane and damages it but not enough for it to immediately crash...

fusion is the ultimate clean energy source. we shouldn't give up on it just because it's a difficult problem