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by Vecr 2y ago
That's how it would generally work, assuming you don't need tiny curled up dimensions to stuff unwanted particles into. Assuming you mean 3D boundary, 4D bulk.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I think that might end up with "Oops! All Smallpox."
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by Vecr 2y ago
It's not really. It's detectable so it theory it might trip something in a nuclear power plant, but unless you plan on grinding it up and inhaling it, it should stay in the casing.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I think derefr might be talking about the cells that form the walls of the capillaries being bigger, so you can't really fit them in the places you need them, and if you tried they'd be too narrow. Except replace "you" w
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by Vecr 2y ago
Even then isn't it irresponsible to avoid talk about progress from other labs vs the probability of winter? Either way you could get wiped out hard, investment wise and product/startup wise.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Not really not "eats us all, not a human" though. Do OP's requirements really make sense?
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by Vecr 2y ago
The Gaia hypothesis always seemed to me like Dawkins' "God's utility function", but without the same effect of calling out its own ridiculousness as an idea. There's an optimal scale to look at something from, and f
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by Vecr 2y ago
Isn't it pretty niche to not want discussions of winter or alignment? I guess you can go read Nick Land? If there's not at least a mini-winter or alignment some time soon it's going full Nick Land, right? What I mean is, Nick
279.
by Vecr 2y ago
It's Ω / Chaitin's constant for a particular encoding. It's uncomputable as a whole, but maybe we will get a couple more bits.
280.
by Vecr 2y ago
Apparently there's ways of getting the first few binary digits, but it's useless at that length.
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by Vecr 2y ago
The atmosphere in the habitat is specified to be 33 atmospheres, mostly helium and oxygen. The characters need to use "talkers" because their voices would be too high pitched to be understandable otherwise. I think the author eith
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by Vecr 2y ago
> and a self-insert modelled on Neil deGrasse Tyson I don't think that's horribly unrealistic, is it? He's pretty much a scientist the media picked to represent the topic, like Dr. Fauci in real life. They could have picke
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by Vecr 2y ago
I guess because it's the it's the "seven eves" that are the big bolides the moon breaks into, and the "seven eves" of the new species of humanity in the second part.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Yeah, that's a better idea. Use a signal relay rated for the surge, and just have it off usually.
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by Vecr 2y ago
You need some sort of relativity to explain the Michelson–Morley result.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Congress is really just addressing a market failure, if you want to put it like that. It's not just that the car does not come with an AM radio, the car's electronics are jamming AM reception inside the car, even if you try to buy
287.
by Vecr 2y ago
Unless there's some really fast surge protection, and then a temporary disconnect for the later, longer pulses.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Internal model implementations? You mean the speed of light?
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by Vecr 2y ago
In some Newtonian or pseudo-Newtonian models, possibly? Not in GR/General Relativity.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I've been told that the manga is dubious science fiction, I don't understand Japanese so maybe it's a translation issue, but that's doubtful, and in addition I've been told most of the footnotes are kind of nonsense
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by Vecr 2y ago
It was at standard pressure (sea level ish)? And the nitrogen's fine for coming and going to the habitat as you wish (without the bends) because the pressure's so much lower? What about the oxygen toxicity from breathing normal ai
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by Vecr 2y ago
I never understood why the spaceplane had an atmosphere with helium in it, though. Either Crichton messed up or got confused about the mixing issues there (as well as the massive logistics problems, the plane was huge).
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by Vecr 2y ago
Probably? I don't think masscons are big enough of an influence, but what timescales are you talking about?
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by Vecr 2y ago
If he's really into chaff generation it might be be him. Or a fictional version of him, because your examples don't have to be real if you're posting online under an alias.
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by Vecr 2y ago
I'm pretty sure she has written blog posts. Maybe you can claim they don't fit some technical definition but I have vague recollections of a quite large number of blog-like writings.
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by Vecr 2y ago
The dream would be a planet-sized optical telescope, but even a European country sized 'scope would have trouble with your idea.
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by Vecr 2y ago
Well, that's still technically "open". If the border was hermetically sealed (and boats/subs that tried to circumvent it were sunk) that would stop. Pesky international agreements however.
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by Vecr 2y ago
If we could compute faster we'd be able to do digital visible light interferometry, but for now we're stuck with lenses and mirrors bolted to heavy tables, and our telescopes have to be very close together.
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by Vecr 2y ago
It's really annoying we only get public reports on proprietary system failures when there are high profile deaths (and sometimes not even then). Just because something didn't go wrong this time doesn't mean the risk is gone,
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by Vecr 2y ago
Not from the coils, from the food itself. You can kind of fix it by cooking in a very conservative way, but good luck safely cooking chicken without oil and a high temperature (and the particles that generates).

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