"value" not "valuation". It has a value of hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. It would require enforceable patents to have that value funnel to one company.
Assuming the bacteria story is true, your open source analogy is wrong. Anyone can copy the bacteria (similar to open source) but there's no maintenance needed once the bacteria is released to the public. Anyone in any country can offer to give you the bacteria. It's naive to think that anyone but a non-profit would release something like this.
No native writing system was known among North American Indians at the time of first European contact.
Please explain the type of evidence you could gather that would tell you American Indians thought intentional burning was a good idea and part of their planned forest management.
From what I'm reading on your link the evidence is evidence of fires burning things down, thus the Indians had an advanced forest management system in place.
Instead of being argumentative about this, look where we actually have documentation, which is aboriginal burns in the AU.
It turns out that people that lived in fire country for hundreds/thousands of years built up practices of burning when fires would remain calm rather than explode into conflagrations. "Advanced" is relative in this sense.
Between this and natural fires the landscape had a patchwork quality that acted as natural fire breaks.
If that were true, Apple would just add limiting Airdrop to 10 minutes as an additional default option. Removing Always on airdrop was done because it's the only form of community communications that doesn't go through the Censors.
Why don't you list your non-propaganda media sources? The only one I can think of was WikiLeaks, but your trustworthy, benevolent western governments made sure to destroy it.
In this case, it's not 'quietly' because it's sinister, it's 'quietly' because it's extremely embarrassing. The US used all its political might to force a global boycott of Russia. Now it's telling farmers to buy Russian fertilizer. I'm no expert, but even I know Russia is a (the?) leading source of fertilizer. And to do this when we were already suffering high inflation? It's a blunder at best.
And it's always a Sunday when virtually no work is being done, on a day with perfect weather so no AC or Heating and most people have no need for indoor lighting. For most people a black out during this time would go unnoticed.
I imagine you're referring to the importance of good solar conditions for the production of electricity and I agree that's vital. However these articles give false hope by matching peak solar production to the lowest possible consumption period which is always on the weekends with 70 degree weather. You have close to zero commercial machinery, zero need for climate control, zero lighting (people are either outside or use natural light).
I was talking about energy demand, sunday doesn't differ that much from monday, contrary to what you think. The time of day matters much more. You can verify this yourself by looking at CISOs demand graphs.
Why does this article give false hope? It just reports on a first time ever?
