February is upon us. It's a time when we in the United States predict the weather on the basis of a rodent seeing its shadow, and we celebrate American presidents by buying linen and mattresses.

We also celebrate romance and sweetheart by honoring a third-century Roman bishop who was beheaded.

And if none of that makes sense, fear not, for there is one thing

that does make sense, questions and answers. Stay tuned for Questions and Answers, Volume 39,

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Let's jump right into our first question with Deborah Wales from Patreon, who asks,

What cuisine of all the kinds you've tasted in your travels is your favorite?

Well, Deborah, that's an easy one one as I've literally written an article on the

subject for my website. My favorite would be Japanese food, followed by Spanish and Argentina.

Almost everything in Japan is good, including random foods you find at food stands or even

convenience stores. It's almost erroneous to say that Spain has a single cuisine as it has

many regional cuisines,

but Spaniards take food very seriously.

And as for Argentina, I just love Argentina Sato, which is basically their version of barbecue.

Thomas Nicolason from Patreon asks, space travel seems to be on a trajectory towards becoming safer and more

affordable. If you could take a 24-hour trip into low Earth orbit for the cost of a first-class

transatlantic flight, would you go? Well, Thomas, assuming the cost of spaceflight were the same

as a transatlantic flight, I'm assuming that the level of safety would be about the same as well.

And if that were the case, then yeah, I think I would do it. Why not? I think weightlessness

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