I looked at your source, which provides the claim but no basis for the stated "eco friendliness". If it is just based upon the colour green being involved then that is absurd. Like claiming coca-cola encourages people to be communist because their logo is red.

Yeah - they're grossly overstating lift capacity there. And even the reduced lift capacity of 4-5 pounds (in addition to the weight of the bird itself, which it also needs to lift) - it needs to be at full steam speedwise to carry that... and that would just result in the eagle suddenly having a struggling dog in its claws. How is that likely to pay off for the eagle? They're not that thick. Source: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=343#:~:text=Bald%20eagles%20are%20strong%2C%20aggressive,at%20four%20or%20five%20pounds.Quote: "Bald eagles are strong, aggressive birds but like everything that flies they are governed by aerodynamics. The wings of an eagle need to support the eight to 12-pound bird as well as whatever the bird is carrying, and best estimates put the lifting power of an eagle at four or five pounds."

Oh good, the 5g/chip/vaccine/BillGatesistaggingusforsomereason conspiracy people definitely need extra ammunition for their whackjobedness...

"dead for 30 years", "dead for 3,000 years", just use 100 times the dosage of the science juice and I'm sure it'll be fine!

My theory is that as they are evolutionarily geared to be moments away from snapping into hunting mode, they test everything in their environment in case they need to use it as a launching platform. "nope, glass of wine would not make reliable springboard, noted".

" a deeply spiritual concept was now being given a biological explanation " ... like the deeply human tendendy (some would say need) to find patterns in chaos and presume that the implausible explanations previous generations imaginitively came up with are based upon more than imagination just because we were told them at a young enough age and with enough seriousness? Life and the universe are beyond our (current or previous) level of understanding: must be a sky wizard.

Swan Solo is a terrible pun. If "Han" were pronounced to rhyme with swan then it'd be passable, but who'd recognise "Honn Solo" or call a swan a "swanne"?

That's it, when I get into the astronaut program and into space (it's bound to happen sometime soon, they've had decades to ask me, can't be long now!) I'll take that bullet and gladly consume some up there, from my own weight allowance. Gotta make it right for all the kids!

Incidetally, blockchain is just the idea of giving everybody who uses an app the database instead of having it centrally (or on a few servers, cloud etc). The issue with it (and a huuuuge one) comes from the security processes being provided (for bitcoin and etherium and all the big ones) by 'proof of work'. Meaning that all transactions are authenticated by someone proving they have "done the work" of mining for new coin, which gets harder each time. So many trillions of computations are now done just to allow bitcoin to continue operating (and NFT uses the same system). For example a single bitcoin transaction used enough power at the start of the year to power the average British home for 2 months. A single VISA transaction uses 0.2 watts. Here is an interesting article on NFT (which is literally just bidding for the right to say you own - and not exclusively - a link that anybody can access, and the continuity of is determinant upon the longevity of whoever hosts/runs it) https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053

The IT Crowd has a thing about a fire where someone emails in about it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EBfxjSFAxQ

Reminds me of this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c (anybody who hasn't seen the other music videos of this band - OK Go - should watch them, awesome stuff. Especially the electric unicycle and umbrella one and the freefall/zero g one :)