ā€œThe most comprehensive tracking of attempts to replicate a high-temperature superconductor claim can be found in a forum called SpaceBattlesā€ is definitely a phrase that makes me feel like I'm living in the future.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/claims-of-room-temperature-and-ambient-pressure-superconductor.1106083/page-11?post=94266395

@alex That popular science publications didn't jump on doing this is a continuing indictment of how legacy publishing works. Still being beaten by the weblogs and forums.
@alex Ah, I didn't see that! I only saw Derek's last column, which was also good (and timely)
@alex ! "Guardedly optimisticā€ and "extremely damned interestingā€ is a big signal, coming from him.

@alex
I never thought the forum that I hung out on when I was 12 to argue about Star Trek vs Star Wars would suddenly be in the news. šŸ˜…

(They're a little crazy over there, but I owe them my Physics career.)