I was never into Dire Straits. That’s readily understood if one takes note of the fact that acts of the Phil Collins ilk were (and indeed are) self-evidently inferior to Joy Division if one was (and indeed is) concerned with trying to conceal vast stretches of dorky midwestern-boy naivete behind a faux-edgy poseurish front. We all have our weaknesses.

Nonetheless, Dire Straits, in the tune Industrial Disease off of Love over Gold, redeems it all with one fabulous line.

Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong.

It can be routinely applied as a conversational bon mot, even as frequently as once or twice per week if one believes one is trying to take care to remember who one has previously used it on.

Consider the treasure trove of JWST transmission spectra obtained over the past year or so with MIRI/LRS. Take K2-18b, an ideal laboratory for detecting biosignatures. This take on some of that deluxe hi-fi IR jet-propulsed its Oxbridge authors to the front-page pinnacles of science-outreach heights.

Haters gonna hate, yo? This one‘s coming at you from an outer-borough crew tryna bum-rush the stage.

Fortunately, this’ll all get straightened out when the $7B Habex Mission flies in the 2030s.