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Chicago does. (This post is about as relevant as others in this thread).

Science was used to solve problems but since I answered to an engineer the countermeasures were engineering solutions.

My role in the company evolved into a sort of Mr. Fixit with the emphasis on science rather than engineering. I gave an example of the use of science in solving a corrosion problem rather than engineering...

Spaghettification can also occur with neutron stars and white dwarfs which not only depends on the strength of the tidal forces but also on the rigidity of the object being stretched.

I worked as a scientist. The company operated on an escalation system, if a problem couldn't be resolved by suppliers for components parts, or inhouse parts such as engines, the problem was escalated to the next level where it became the responsibility of scientists and specialists. This also...

I'm all too familiar with the effects of cavitation in the automotive industry particularly for cooling systems. A very simple test for long life coolant is an anti foaming test, if the coolant foamed after vigorous shaking it was a strong indicator that cavitation would eventually destroy...

Instead of the lights going out they literally turn on.

As mentioned in post#6 for supermassive black holes tidal forces only build up to significant levels inside the event horizon for spaghettification to occur which can never be observed. For stellar mass black holes such as Cygnus X-1 mentioned in the OP it was not spaghettification which defined...

Here is a fun fact based on the mathematics behind black holes. An astronaut at or near the event horizon of a supermassive black hole will experience nothing, whereas for a stellar mass black hole the astronaut would have been torn to shreds by the tidal forces.

Why do you even bother asking the question when you know you are going to get a nonsensical incoherent response?

No. It would have to be in hydrostatic equilibrium where gravity prevents the gas from dispersing into the vacuum of space. Moons do not have enough mass for gravity to achieve this.

Hawking did express concerns about the Higgs field being in a false vacuum state leading to vacuum decay as described in the video in post#11.

The "prophets of doom" in this case were the media which initiated a snowball effect by reporting on the scenarios when the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) was commissioned in the States a decade before the LHC. The media became aware after articles were published in Scientific American...

When the LHC was constructed to find the Higgs boson, prophets of doom claimed our planet was going to be destroyed in variety of ways involving mini black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles (my favourite). It forced CERN to issue a statement to alleviate public fears...

Here is a history and future positions of the northern pole star. Bayer Traditional V Constellation Alignment notes Alpha Lyrae Vega 0.026 Lyra within 5° used to be the North Star at about 12,000 BC; and will become the North Star at 14,500 AD Iota Herculis 3.75 Hercules...

On the subject of pole stars, planets and moons have their own stars that are of the 6th magnitude (barely visible to the naked eye) or brighter which are nearest to the celestial pole. Northern Pole Star Southern Pole Star Mercury Omicron Draconis Alpha Pictoris Venus 42 Draconis...

Since stars drift out of position due to precession, Astronomical nutation - Wikipedia and Proper motion - Wikipedia astronomers need to redefine their positions in fifty year intervals known as epochs. For the B1950.0 epoch the position of Polaris was RA 01h 48m 47s, Dec +89° 02’ 06". For the...

What a load of complete utter drivel; are you now making things up to make a point or so deluded to as to be blinded by confirmation bias, relying on sources which promote misinformation and disinformation? Here is an unpleasant fact for you since the earth is a spherical object which rotates...

We are not all that bad and have a legitimate gripe against women only scholarships.

Hilarious given the total eclipse indicated the sun's light could not pass through the moon.