That is crazy. And some stars are probably exploding right now and it will only be visible by our descendants in a few thousands of years. They will look like at it wondering how it was to live in our times.

Nice !

Can someone ELI5 ? VAT collected by companies including hotels has to be paid to the government. Here the government pays the invoices VAT included. Isn’t this operation neutral ? Since this seems to be a big issue, I guess not. What am I missing ?

They have an amazing one in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

I’m amazed by the fact that such systems are able to resume operations after a so long interruption, without requiring an human to press some physical button.