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“I don’t get upset about all the hypotheticals.”

Flying a drone over the Caribbean is easier than over Ukraine, where electronic warfare has rendered many American-made drones ineffective or unusable, and the distances are shorter than in a hypothetical China-Taiwan conflict.

The measured gamma ray energy spectrum, which describes how the intensity of the emission varies, closely matches model predictions for the annihilation of hypothetical WIMPs with masses roughly 500 times that of a proton.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme on Tuesday, Sir Brian said he was "not prepared to comment" on the government's "hypothetical" unpublished plans.

He compared this hypothetical world to Iain M. Banks’ sci-fi “Culture” novels, where abundance is so extreme that traditional economies disappear.