> getting the right numbers to plug into a ‘gravity equation’ Those are what I like to call "load-bearing" numbers. :) There's so much science daydreaming in

> getting the right numbers to plug into a ‘gravity equation’ Those are what I like to call "load-bearing" numbers. :) There's so much science daydreaming in what passes for the science press that people think all of our problems will be solved once the smart people (or quantum computers) find the magic formula and those elusive load-bearing numbers. Half the people here understand physics, and the sheer impossibility of the task due to the relative magnitudes involved, and have resigned themselves to "we better learn to live on this ball together as it's all we're ever going to have". The other half daydream about magical solutions that marvel movies tell us exist, we're just waiting for an Elon Musk or Tony Stark to discover it and then humanity enters a golden age.