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by bdamm 5y ago
It could be, but that's something that only privileged elected officials e.g. members of the intelligence committee, US President, past presidents, etc, get to know. If you let yourself get into conspiratorial thinking you'll soon
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by bdamm 5y ago
Won’t it be interesting when our model of physics is updated to explain these cosmological phenomena? Who knows what new technology will be discovered as a result!
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by bdamm 5y ago
Somehow this feels like sarcasm, given that Pascal is older that pretty much everyone on this forum.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Private pilot here. ATC are usually trained to follow very specific dialogues, and pilots are trained to expect them. ATC and pilots are also together in somewhat of a fraternity. This would be a very unusual dialogue and so it makes sense
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by bdamm 5y ago
And so a new pathogen is emerging to fulfill the void once dominated by bacterial infections. Makes sense..
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by bdamm 5y ago
Right; but they've been evolving rapidly the entire time. So they're still doing what they've always done. If the environment is changing, and people are changing, and that's causing us to be vulnerable to conditions we
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by bdamm 5y ago
It's a bit of creative writing, mostly. Fungi evolve, that's what they do. And they evolve very rapidly. They also have great staying power, with spores that have covered every square millimeter of the earth pretty much for the en
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by bdamm 5y ago
Right. Eating shrooms might fix your brain, and enslave you to think about forests and shrooms with some affection for the rest of your life. It is a tragic outcome for those who prefer to be isolated from nature.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Presumably this is an outcome of selective breeding. The symbiotic interaction results in more offspring for both species. The invisible hand of mother gaia "knows".
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by bdamm 5y ago
Yeah. I have been to Fort Mac many times, and lived in Prince George for 6 years. Fort Mac is kind of the end of the earth. But I know how hard it is to manage ICE cars in that kind of cold. Plug in the block heater. Leave the engine runnin
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by bdamm 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It takes me about 5 seconds too. I plug in, I walk away. When I'm ready to drive, I unplug and get in. Not complicated, adds up to about 5 seconds. All the work is being done when I&#x
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by bdamm 5y ago
It is true that the DC fast charging (DCFC) infrastructure is still being built out. The number of endpoints is ramping up. DCFC infra today is way better than the H2 infrastructure, and by quite a lot. Good luck holding your fingers.
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by bdamm 5y ago
It isn’t that much of a value proposition. Modern EVs do fast charging pretty well. Given that it takes on the order of 10 minutes to pull off a freeway, navigate a traffic light or two, select a pump, pay, use the restroom, grab a snack fr
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by bdamm 5y ago
Can you be specific? Looks pretty good to me.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Operating electric cars on coal generation produces more miles driven for the same carbon emissions than gasoline does.
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by bdamm 5y ago
While technically true, the conversion is inefficient. It takes a lot of power to extract H2 from H2O. You could just use that power directly. The problem with electrics in -50 is keeping them plugged in when not in use. -50 is very extreme
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by bdamm 5y ago
Hypermiling is almost a sport at this point. https://electrek.co/2018/07/16/tesla-model-3-autopilot-unman...
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by bdamm 5y ago
NASA testified to the US Senate in 1989 that climate change was happening and 99% anthropogenic. The science hasn’t been the problem.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Drone racing has a serious home-build streak in the actual racing robots. Kinda hard to virtualize that. If it's just a video game, what's the point? Maybe as its own racing class perhaps?
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by bdamm 5y ago
Frankly I hope it is.
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by bdamm 5y ago
What great examples do you know?
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by bdamm 5y ago
Is it though? We have plenty of cases of on-prem and in-cloud going down. And we have also plenty of evidence that some companies do actually manage to do disaster recovery pretty well. Not all, of course, usually those that experience freq
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by bdamm 5y ago
Perhaps we should make it illegal for all to use written language except for the most highly educated and those with the most serious of intent? This would weed out your qualms. "Contacted" isn't the same as "attempted t
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by bdamm 5y ago
Fungi (and lichen) is known to be able to survive in places where plants cannot. So it's entirely possible that fungi could survive on Mars while trees/moss/grass could not. We also know where this happens on Earth[1][2]. We
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by bdamm 5y ago
This would be the exciting thing. If there really is fungus growing on the surface of mars, or even some life growing in the recesses of the rover, then getting samples and obtaining DNA (if the DNA is even the same structure) would almost
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by bdamm 5y ago
Discovery of fungi or bacteria growing on Mars would be absolutely shattering science. The claim of fungus-like growth didn't seem to be supported by the photographic evidence, though. edit: After looking through all the photos again,
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by bdamm 5y ago
What alternatives would you suggest? What are you willing to bet that they will stand the test of time without also becoming overused icons of language? "Reached out" at least has a warm diplomatic connotation so I personally don&
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by bdamm 5y ago
Kinda neat. Many of these remind me of observing a solar eclipse, where trees cast shadows with zillions of little crescents. Fun to experience in person, but distracting to see in an image because I get the distinct "something is not
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by bdamm 5y ago
Many share your fear, but like the Spanish Flu, this too shall pass. The virus is real, and the end of restrictions are near. If not by pragmatism, then surely by election.
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by bdamm 5y ago
Sounds kinda like genocide eh?

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