0 metres. Just turn round.

To pass within say 5m of someone you just need to set up shop at a busy train platform and wait. With 1000 people passing every 2 minutes it won’t take long to pass 100k (well presumably about 3 hours)

“Centrists” (whatever that means) aren’t denying climate change.

Even if 99% of America accepts climate change that’s still 350,000 that don’t, and there’s a good chance many deniers are just doing it for the lolz.

The world was unwilling to enact the changes that were required. The mitigations of the damage to both the human and natural world are required now, and there’s lots of discussion about that. Not least what happens when a nuclear power of 1.5 billion people reaches a wet bulb temperature high enough to start killing tens of millions.

Without FTL you don’t get a single civilisation, so even if one civilisation doesn’t rant to expand evolution will mean the ones that do will do so.

So you’re left with “they haven’t tapped our star yet” or “nothing can reach us”

Any life form will expand to use all resources. We know that nothing is consuming all resources in our solar system.

As such it seems impossible for life to have reached interstellar travel anywhere in the Milky Way before at most a few million years ago, otherwise we would see it.

Which is weird because life surely can’t be that rare in the entirety of space time.

Of course the galaxy could be teaming with non interstellar life, but once you reach mankind’s level of sentience and technology it dormant seem a massive jump to interstellar, and once that happens there’s no way to put the genie back in the bottle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978

Flying over a country does not make you immune to that country’s laws.

Insert “are we the bad guys” meme.

Surely you need about 20 years?

https://youtu.be/Na4LTD1M6nw

Seemed to cover a fair amount of the issues (or non issues)

That’s the whole point. The courts uphold the law. Change the law, and the courts change what they do.

No housing was lost, same number of people are housed.

if Google had to pay a $2b bill they can spend $20m fighting it.

If they have to pay a $2t bill they can spend $20b fighting it

You can buy a lot more justice with $20b than with $2000