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  • That depends on what level you want to achieve. Some plasma blob with a membrane around it that is able to just replicate in a perfectly controlled and balanced nutrient solution is one thing is probably not easy, but the lowest level that needs to be achieved to claim this term.

    If you want something that you can drop into a petri dish with some agar-agar and real, competing bacteria, and be able to survive and thrive, well, that is a completely different level.



  • Was it really a British ship, or was it a ship running under Liberian or Lagos or whatever cheap flag, but owned by a British company?

    If it ran under the British flag, then it would have been the British marines’ job to defend it. OK.

    If it ran under the Flag of Panama, Liberia, Lagos, or whatever, it would have been their responsibility.

    None of the tax evasion flags countries have a ship there to defend what would be their duty to defend. Instead, we finance and endanger our military to protect tax evaders’ ships.