I found it much better than the day after, probably because of the smaller scale of the story. The build up at the start of Threads is probably one of the most stress inducing things I've watched, it feels so real.

It's just a bad headline, I think it's on highway G318 in Tibet, so you might be able to see Everest from there but you're probably not starting a hike from the charging station.

It's on the Tibetan side of Everest, and it reads like it's on China National Highway 318 (G318 on Google maps), which is actually really not very close to Everest but I guess it's the nearest main route on the northern side. Totally misleading headline. The average elevation of the Tibetan plateau is 4500m so the actual headline is "china builds an EV charging station on a main road in Tibet". The base camps that most international travellers use are on the Nepalese side.

You can't really grow the same crop in the same field season after season (without fertiliser), because they'll sap the specific nutrients they need from the soil. If you do that over and over eventually the soil wont have any food for that crop. Growing something different each season that takes different nutrients from the soil lets it recover the other ones. I don't know how it recovers on its own, circle of life stuff probably. Modern farming can cheat by artificially replenishing the nutrients with fertiliser.

Could just be sitting sort of cross legged with his right leg tucked in underneath

Flight MH17

The radioactive source isn't used for power in smoke detectors, it's used to detect smoke. What small scale devices use radioactivity actually for power?

Some phones can already do that, like wireless powershare (Samsung)

Not in elementary school

Where do you work where you get "top marks"?

In my head it was Elon who sketched the truck and told everyone "make that exactly how I drew it"

It's a really good film from 1984 about nuclear war