Because one common assumption was that the universe might contain as much antimatter as matter.
Which begs the question: Where did it go? We would notice a huge amount of annihilation reactions in the solar system.
"Antimatter falls up" (is gravitationally repelled instead of attracted by normal matter) was an easy hypothesis to explain that.
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you've got a Linux native version, then you're fine.
The Behemoth from the Expanse Series had a laser with a range of literal light years.
Granted, it was a comm laser, but they did weaponize it at one point.
Even if we assume that the beam had a solar-system sized diameter after 4 ly, a weaponized output should still be in ship-killer range after an AE or five.
Ultimately, the weapon was never fired (and would have melted half the ship if it ever were).
I genuinely believe that all the tabooisation around sex is a holdover from the days where birth control wasn't readily available.
There was an economic incentive for People Who Own Stuff to control procreation, because this allows them to control who inherits their stuff.
There was a personal incentive for most people to control procreation to prevent their children of making A Mistake(tm) by getting stuck with The Wrong Person(tm).
Where there's incentives, they'll wind up being followed. Story as old as time.
Cloaking all that in religion is just window dressing so one doesn't have to admit their true reasoning, but a purely secular pre-contraception society would also have tried to regulate sex.
Counterpoint:
A company should not care whether someone is a cokehead.
They should care whether they're reliable, competent etc.
There's established methods of figuring those things out without a drug test.
The buff persists across stat increases.
You don't see it in the level-up-screen, but it's applied afterwards.
It's easy to test:
Make a save, Withers, eat the hair, level up.
MH can only throw items that are on the ground.
If you drop some items on the ground from your inventory, MH can throw them without it requiring your action.
Thrown healing potions can revive/heal teammates.
Water bottles will make enemies vulnerable to lightning/frost spells/arrows.
A lit candle can be moved to stay close to anyone needing to dip.
A TTRPG campaign I wrote and ran two decades ago for a group of friends.
I knew only a fraction of what I know now, was overambitious and railroady - it should have turned into a disaster.
Instead, things just... clicked and we had a few months of gorgeous fun. Years later, one of those friends confessed to still getting goosebumps when a key scene's theme song plays.
(Obviously, a core reason for this working so well was that we were just a great group.)
I used to have rather strong opinions on parents who sit on the playground with their phones out.
Nowadays, I don't bring the kids to a playground to play with them - I bring them so they can play with other children.
We talk and play more than enough in all those situations where there's no other kids around.
Players Decide, PCs act.
You tell me what your PC wants to achieve and how. I set the DC to check how well they perform at that attempt (or declare "no roll needed", because it's trivial / impossible).
You want to persuade an NPC? Tell me the gist of your argument and I'll consider how receptive your target is and set a DC for checking how well your PC can present said argument.
(In some cases like "I want to hit them real good with my sword" or "I want to climb up that wall", no detailed description is necessary, we both know what you mean.)
This was actually what got me hooked during university.
Had to plot about 40 txt files of measurement data, was not looking forward to do it one by one with the GUI-based tool I had.
StudyBuddy: "Do you have a Linux on this Laptop"?
Me: "Yeah, set up dual boot a while ago, never really wound up using it."
StudyBuddy: Boots up Linux, installs gnuplot, types in a one liner.
Computer: Brrrrt. Here's your 40 plots.
Me: "Okay, I've got to start looking into this."
I don't know about you, but to me, the fact that he showed genuine humility and willingness to step beyond his initial chauvinism (after some hands-on lessons about fighting women) had a lot more to do with that than his charm.