This is probably just availability bias / frequency illusion at work. Thinking about something once makes the brain suddenly notice it everywhere. The coincidences stick, but all the misses don’t. Feels like magic, but it’s just how attention and memory play tricks.

Did Mel or Richard write this part?

I'd be more impressive if he walked it backwards.

If he made it all the way he would beat the record set by by Plennie Wingo in 1931-1932 when he walked from Santa Monica, CA to Istanbul, Turkey backwards. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plennie_L._Wingo

It was a challenging walk.

so last security patch was over 7 years ago?

The Carl Sagan bit is also an amusing tribute.

sociopaths

Evidence-based reasoning needs data, even if imperfect. It's amzing that we reached a point in our society where that precept needs to be defended or justified.

exactly

I thought this was already an old general idea; that each black hole ignites the birth of a new universe?