Sunday/Universe

Liberalism has always been a theory against and therefore about coercion. When my left-wing friends, of whom I have many, claim with a knowing smirk that in admiring markets I am “ignoring power,” I have a way of responding: no, dear, it is you who are ignoring power, the power of the monopoly of coercion called a government.--McCloskey

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A jackrabbit is a hare, not a rabbit. It is called a jackrabbit because of its long ears, as if those of a jackass. The metaphorical use is from a jackrabbit’s sudden movement.

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China has stolen more personal and business data from Americans than all other nations combined, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Tuesday. Wray says China has an expansive hacking program targeting U.S. citizens, and went on to say that Chinese apps like TikTok represent significant data threats.
Wray's statement comes just weeks after FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called for the U.S. to outright ban TikTok.

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Orion is currently about 134,000km (83,300 miles) from the Moon.

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Norway is Western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer.
The first of 11 floating wind turbines in Equinor’s project off Norway is now generating clean electricity — which will be used to power an oil platform.

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Sunday/Universe

Today is the Sunday of Christ the King. King of the Universe. The gospel is the Good Thief gospel.

Ancient men were overwhelmed by natural events and sought explanations of things like storms and volcanoes in gods. We're beyond that. Now we look into the universe and quantum mechanics and are so overwhelmed by the size and complexity of nature we think it is beyond the capacity of any god.

Penrose and Hawking, neither a theist, theorized the odds against an ordered universe happening by random chance are 10^10^30th to 1, against. The odds on life are spontaneously appearing 10^10^123rd to 1, against. 

As an aside, Penrose believes "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics."

Overwhelming.