While 50 is north enough and the absolute majority of Canadians live south of it, "Northern Canada" generally refers to the three territories (as opposed to the ten provinces), that start at 60 (mostly, there are some islands south of that).

I'm sitting on an Aeron at work, it's good, but I can't in good conscience pay that much for a chair. I was recently on the market for a new office chair and extensively researched it. It really looks like it's a hit or miss with every chair in every price range, and I was very seriously considering replacing my Hyken with another Hyken. I decided to go with the IKEA Markus and have been sitting on it for about a month. I'm only moderately happy with it, may even return it before the year is up although I'd hate doing it.

Playing 4D chess /s

Rumania and Makedonia probability the closest to the country's native name.

They are quite similar to electromagnetic waves, but also quite different. They are produced by masses accelerating (just like EM waves are produced by charges accelerating), and indeed cause orbital decay. But this orbital decay is only important in relativistic systems (so the Earth, which is orbiting the sun at 0.0001 the speed of light, is not going to fall into the sun because of gravitational waves).

In the case you are unlucky enough to encounter the black hole "heads on" and fall into it radially, the proper time timescale to spaghettification is the size of the event horizon divided by the speed of light. The most supermassive black holes will have a horizon of around one light day, so that's what we're working with, a matter of days. If you come in on the most tangential orbit possible though, I guess you're buying some time but I've never heard that it's supposed to take many years of proper time (I doubt that claim a little bit, but haven't calculated myself).

Haha, that's right. Immediate noticed that.

I was a bit confused at first by car ride from the barbershop. I lived in 4 countries yet never more than 5 minutes walk from where I got my haircut.

For years now I haven't watched a Discovery episode at less that x1.2, and at the worst parts I speed it up to x2.0.

On behalf of UofT, what an honour /s

It caught me by surprise. When they filmed the short trek some years ago there was a university-wide email about filming going on, but this time nothing.

Both DSC and SNW are filmed in Toronto, and we've seen landmarks from the city before (e.g. Aga Khan Museum, Ontario Place); and of course "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" took place entirely in the city in the 2020s and featured it heavily.

+1 for Whisper. Also, I use Piper for the reverse (text-to-speech).

A mid-late 24th century Starfleet runabout?