If the colony was in the same star system, traveling there at sublight would take months. If it's in a different but close-by system, you could maybe get there in a couple of years if you could travel at close to lightspeed, but a) getting close to lightspeed without some major physics trickery like a warp drive is ridiculously hard and b) at that speed, you'd run into relativistic effects, making the time go much slower from your perspective than everyone else's.

So there's so little rush, they're cool with taking a couple centuries to get there?

The shape of a helmet is important for how it handles shocks and impacts. I doubt this thing is as protective as a similarly heavy helmet with a plain old bowl shape.

That's a thing with diswashers in North America, but not in Europe. In Europe, dishwasher are almost always connected to the cold water line only. OP seems to be posting from New Zealand, I don't know how they handle it.

Looks like there's something wrong with your dishwasher. I've had this effect once on one that couldn't heat up the water any more.

It depends a bit on what exactly the residue is you're talking about, but usually it's grease that wasn't properly picked up by the water, just redistributed among your dishes. That is usually because the dishwasher detergent did not properly activate, which in turn is usually because the water does not get hot enough. (Never mind some fats also just stay solid at room temperature.)

A properly working dishwasher does not leave any residue on your dishes.

That's quite the list.

They misspelled "jackpot".

I see every article talking about car drivers hitting bicyclists ever.

Depends on how much of the plant looks like that, but if it's just some of the lower leaves, that just might normal this time of the year.

There is in the sense that they cannot easily be replaced. Whether they actually get paid appropriately for that is another story.

At the risk of getting myself a rain of downvotes here:

An ambulance is an expensive and somewhat rare mini-ER on wheels that's designed to help a small team of expensive and somewhat rare specialists stabilize a dangerous condition on a patient until it reaches a hospital. Since it is important to keep those somewhat rare vehicles and teams in reserve for when they are suddenly urgently needed, you really shouldn't use one as a taxi to the hospital if whatever your condition is doesn't call for that.

(Asking enormous sums of money of the patient for the privilege is IMHO still wrong. The decision to use an ambulance or not should not be based on whether you can can easily part with a couple thousand dollars.)

Bell pepper plants don't outright die on my balcony, but they sure produce a lot less than the banana peppers.

I plant them all in big pots, though, not directly into the soil. Mostly because I only have a balcony to work with, of course, but a secondary effect is that I can carry the plants inside when temperatures drop below 7C.