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by blamazon 5y ago
Applied Science is a delightful gem of a YouTube channel - I recommend to have a browse through the archive of videos if this presentation style and content interests you. Ben is a great presenter of complex topics.
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I worked at a company like this (chasing novel high efficiency small-scale energy production) for a while and it was a lot of fun. Just my friends and I working very hard to build something impossible with other people's money. Countle
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As another datapoint, their careers page is advertising an opening for a "Fusion Space Systems Architect": https://www.avalanche.energy/careers.html
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If you'd like to try building a Nuclear Fusor at home, rejoice, for Makezine has instructions for you! It probably will consume more energy than you can recoup from it, however. https://makezine.com/projects/nuclea
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> unless they want to argue with customers "The price is on the can, though" https://youtu.be/hWObybWWGW4
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Copper is very ductile (soft) compared to many other metals because it is molecularly arranged in a cubic arrangement, while other less ductile common metals tend to be arranged hexagonally or are alloys of multiple elements. The mono-eleme
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Symptom of a car dependent society I guess. Driving is a prerequisite for being an autonomous adult here (a state in the northeastern United States) so licensing requirements are mind bogglingly relaxed, and once you've passed the test
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Nowadays automated parallel parking is a relatively commonplace thing ("it's got smaht pahk!"[1]) and we have come full circle. Hardware complexity superseded by software complexity. Kinda neat. Interestingly, automated paral
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Those thermocouples are less than 10% efficient, usually less than 5%. This means you have to dissipate more than 10 times more energy as heat than the energy you actually want to use as electricity. Dissipating heat in space is not easy be
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There's a fun fact about the FJ cruiser and I know a lot of folks on here will enjoy pointing it out to others just as I do: Three windshield wipers!!
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I like 4x4 style offroading/overlanding/camping and staying with local folks to practice Spanish far from resort land. So I'm gonna land on the latter in my opinion.
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> Mexico is almost a failed state due to cartel Can you provide a justification/explanation/citation for this claim? I have been to Mexico many times as a fascinated tourist and layperson. As yet I have not gotten an "almo
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One thing that's cool about intercity train travel is that, while high speed rail is an ~=obvious economic miracle, trains can be slow and still be commercially competitive. I would much rather take an overnight sleeper train than eith
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This is funny, but one of my favorite parts of New York City is how solo idle bench sitting is socially normalized. I've had many more nice serendipitous chats with other solo idle bench sitters in NYC than other American metro areas w
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I'm not old enough to know - how much did it cost in say, 1980 vs 1990?
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Note: this is not yet about passenger body and possession screenings like airports. Read the article. However, it is potentially the first step in a slippery slope that leads to that kind of screening. If such invasive screenings are implem
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The eternal sadness is that in part due to that reliance on federal money, we were unable to put real rail infrastructure in as part of the project and could only get Bus-'Rapid'-Transit which led to the mediocre Silver Line. In s
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Vancouver is also notable for having mostly resisted the "urban interstate highway addiction" that incentivizes longer (distance) car trips in a lot of American cities.
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I'm not sure why this is the case, but American consumers have come to expect (have been trained to expect?) a wide variety of choice at the supermarket. I'm talking like, you want honey? You've got 50 different brands&#x2F
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For some reason seeing these acronyms used non-ironically make me giggle uncontrollably. For anyone unaware: WAGMI - we are gonna make it NGMI - not gonna make it
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As I interpret it, the point is to demonstrate how anyone with a dataset large enough can now do this. Even memorial benches, because that's what the author had.
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Reminds me of how in 2019 the New York Times demonstrated that Russia was intentionally bombing civilian hospitals in Syria, partly through intercepted radio transmissions: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/r
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I find it ironic that Apple, which is now infamous for 700 dollar computer wheels and 999 dollar display stand, etc, was the party to swiftly ban such an experiment.
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Too wordy for the headline. You're fired. Next!
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Straying further from empty-file-ness, but in a similar vein of low-effort apps in the early days of the iPhone was the controversial I Am Rich, which still makes me giggle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich >
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Is there really that much exotic toxic stuff necessary in a rocket? Starship is made of steel and the fuel is already abundant. (Liquid oxygen and methane) Sure the engines are made of fancy alloys and such but those are reusable. I guess I
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Sure, asteroid mining would be expensive due to the challenges you pointed out. It would likely not be profitable any time soon. But not impossible. I bring this up because I just can't help but feel that open pit mining isn't tec
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I interpreted 'recent events' as referring to them losing 650 million and then winning 150 million.
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If we don't get our act together soon emissions wise, a climate disaster and millions to billions of ensuing refugees may put a kink in the infinite growth economic model in the next few hundred years. Interestingly that's similar
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We could collect those minerals from asteroids. We could also mine deep underground without disturbing the surface. But, open pit mining certainly is dramatically more cost effective than either of those options. My problem with open pit go

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