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NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life(arstechnica.com)
9 points by areoform 5y ago|4 comments
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Nature on Trial: The Case of the Rooster That Laid an Egg(scholarsarchive.byu.edu)
2 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments
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Diderot’s Encyclopédie(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments
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by areoform 5y ago
Knowing people at NASA, this hasn't been the case in my life-time. Most of the flagship rover missions have been designed principally to find evidence of water and life on Mars. Those "geological" missions have been dedicat
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by areoform 5y ago
Because Mars isn't carpeted with life. It is generally thought that if life does indeed exist on Mars, it's likely to be at the poles, in the ice, and/or under the surface where most of the water is. Life on Earth, on the oth
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by areoform 5y ago
To add to Tectonic's amazing comment. There's another reason why this is an extremely important find. The 12C concentration exists in a gradient. I can't say who this person is, but they're a senior scientist involved wi
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Depleted carbon isotope compositions observed at Gale crater, Mars(pnas.org)
50 points by areoform 5y ago|39 comments
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A Tesla on autopilot killed two people. Is the driver guilty of manslaughter?(latimes.com)
52 points by areoform 5y ago|140 comments
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Can volcanoes detonate like high explosives? Did Tonga detonate?(twitter.com)
4 points by areoform 5y ago|1 comments
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by areoform 5y ago
Yes, indeed! It's the magnitude of its velocity around the sun at closest approach.
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by areoform 5y ago
Think about it as a vector. Imagine if you were a god, and you placed a particle in the same orbit as Earth. Now imagine you wanted to smash it into the sun. How would you do it? For the particle to fall straight "down" to the sun
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by areoform 5y ago
At its launch, the Parker Solar probe surpassed all prior records of speed. And it will continue to break its own record over the 7 years after 7 consecutive encounters with Venus that will lower its trajectory to 9.86 Solar Radii While a l
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by areoform 5y ago
Can someone explain this to me with undergraduate level math?
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A Fossilized Blood-Engorged Mosquito Is Found for the First Time Ever (2013)(smithsonianmag.com)
112 points by areoform 5y ago|66 comments
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DIY Aerogel Recipes(aerogel.org)
4 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments
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NASA’s Eyes(eyes.nasa.gov)
3 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments
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After ALS struck, he became the world’s most advanced cyborg(inputmag.com)
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by areoform 5y ago
Yes, it is! I even had the chance to talk to Kim Stanley Robinson about it :)
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by areoform 5y ago
The mechanism suggests a strong "industrial" base to support it. They had to get the metals from somewhere, find the expert artisans to craft from somewhere else, source the parts, find the tooling etc. Just as a mass produced pen
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by areoform 5y ago
The Antikythera mechanism gives me nightmares. Just as the suggestion that a lack of transmissions from intelligent life means the existence of a great filter. The Antikythera mechanism is a strong indicator of technological regression in h
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by areoform 5y ago
Clearview AI is disturbing. I have had a public conversation with one of the founders (who had left the company), where he said, "you civil libertarian types are all going to lose. We are going to steamroll you." And dismissed any
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by areoform 5y ago
As the article doesn't dive into the statistics, I have taken some time to go through the official statistics. In this graph, found on the Singapore Government's website, https://www.cnb.gov.sg/images/default-
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Preliminary analysis of Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu(nature.com)
2 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments
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Intraplate volcanism originating from upwelling hydrous mantle transition zone(nature.com)
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by areoform 5y ago
For more details on how they committed their unique form of fraud, https://whitecollarfraud.com/crazy-eddie/crazy-eddie-fraud/
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Crazy Eddie's Insanely Successful Criminal Enterprise(mentalfloss.com)
4 points by areoform 5y ago|1 comments
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by areoform 5y ago
The storage read speed for the M1 is ~3.4 GB/s. The write speed is 2.8GB/s. Unless you are looking at all of your 60GB dataset in one go, clearly the speed at which storage can be accessed is fast enough to do batch processing on
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two(cogprints.org)
1 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments
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Carved human skulls found in ancient stone temple(science.org)
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The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber(nautil.us)
1 points by areoform 5y ago|0 comments

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