PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.

Docteur ingénieur en aérospatiale de Wallonie.

Docteur indjenieur e-n areyospåciå del Walonreye.

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  • When we look at the sky, there is a line where there is way more stars than usual. This line goes all the way around the sky. This was called the milky way by the Greeks because it was like a road sparkled with milk drops. At some point, we deduced that we were in a group of stars arranged in a flat disk. Later, we realized that some weird space clouds (nebulae) were much further away than we thought and were actually other huge groups of stars like our own that we named galaxies, still after milk.

    There are more details me course. Even along the line in the sky drawn by the milky way, there is one side where there is much more stars and dust than the other. We deduced that we were at the edge of the disk and the bright region was the center of our galaxy. Also, the amount of gas and dust that block certain types of light that teach us that our galaxy has arms.




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    If it were an ideal free market with an infinite amount of competitor, you’d be right. That logic ceases to function in a monopolistic context. In the case of YouTube it’s not “go to the competition” because there’s none. It’s “stop watching online videos”, which is still possible but a huge shift in habits, hobbies, and cultural environment. It’s extremely difficult and only a tiny minority will succeed because human’s psychology is a real thing.



  • Of course. And I’ll continue to do so as long as advertisement is detrimental to my online experience. If it wastes my time by forcing me to watch an ad before a video, if it distracts me from reading a text because of animations, if it tries to scam or shock me, I’m better off blocking it. I’m not against advertisement as communication that a useful product or service exists, I’m against advertisement abuse and greed.

    I’ll happily pay for, donate to, or otherwise support services important to me that need and deserve it.