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James Webb Telescope images smallest exoplanet size of Saturn at 110 lightyears(theguardian.com)
3 points by ck2 1y ago|0 comments
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by ck2 1y ago
Alternate view: be thankful things are far apart a gamma-ray burst from a collapsing star closer than 200 light years away would destroy ALL life on earth
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by ck2 1y ago
how about quad9, what are the feelings on them now? on paper it looks great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad9 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469457
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by ck2 1y ago
There's a PBS Space Time for that (from three years ago) https://www.pbs.org/video/could-the-universe-be-inside-a-bla... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E
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by ck2 1y ago
My tablet with lineageOS works with very few select usb-ethernet adapters (ASIX AX88179 chipset) But since it doesn't support charging while in OTG host mode, it cannot stay plugged into the adapter for long (old battery) Some newer d
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by ck2 1y ago
supermium --ungoogled-supermium https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/ https://github.com/win32ss/supermium
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by ck2 1y ago
LLM is going to be used for oppression by every government, not just dictatorships but USA of course Think of it as an IQ test of how new technology is used Let me give you an easier example of such a test Let's say they suddenly devel
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by ck2 1y ago
We had a 9/11's worth of death EVERY DAY for the first TWO YEARS of covid Then a 9/11's worth of death EVERY WEEK for the next TWO YEARS of covid We still have a 9/11's worth of death EVERY MONTH in 2025 Person
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Inside A Scientific Paper Mill(science.org)
8 points by ck2 1y ago|0 comments
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by ck2 1y ago
What on earth are you downplaying There never ever has been an above-ground test of a modern enhanced hydrogen bomb in the USA The Bikini Atoll test in the 1950s using 75 year old technology killed people via radiation over 130 miles away
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by ck2 1y ago
vaguely related there is a fantastic new PBS Space Time this week which suggests the "no alien life" fermi paradox may be related to how our mitochondria evolved by a series of fortunate accidents which may not be reproducible els
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by ck2 1y ago
I think there is a dangerous misunderstanding that the population of earth could survive even a small number of nukes being used anywhere on the planet It would be a slow-moving but certain mass-extinction event A single modern nuke is 30-8
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by ck2 1y ago
one thing is for sure, the next world-war they are just going to take out every satellite in the first 5 minutes the micro-debris will make orbits impossible for the next century and that's assuming they don't use EMP from orbit t
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by ck2 1y ago
What a watered down headline FDA now blocking covid vaccines for healthy people under 65, denying access to millions So much for freedom and choice And no way this is only for covid, that's just the start
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by ck2 1y ago
> "New multispectral analysis of Voynich manuscript reveals hidden details" https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/new-multispectral-an... but imagine if it was just a (wealthy) child's col
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by ck2 1y ago
Don't completely discard the danger but keep in mind ANY supplement that improves cell efficiency also helps cancer, with very rare exception. 1000x times more worried about micro-plastics and forever-chemicals now saturating every wat
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by ck2 1y ago
My favorite "lasers at distance" thing will be when amateurs can get a few photons back from the mirrors left on the moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment... Not quite there yet at
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by ck2 1y ago
NCAA elite women sprinters: https://lsusports.net/imgproxy/ODHxe4usjQ5c6Fwojf5qcwodl0mMa... I suppose I mean distances under 400m, pure sprinting. 800m+ tends to be less muscular, at least not visibly when not racing a
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by ck2 1y ago
There have been muscular women in track & field for a century Because women were not allowed to race longer than 800m (eventually 1500m in 1972) they developed extreme fitness at those shorter distances. If you look at old photos they w
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by ck2 1y ago
It's somewhat of a demonstration/argument of the anthropic principle Because we're here and that appears to be a "special case" and rare and no other life spotted (yet) elsewhere, it might very well be the reason we
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by ck2 1y ago
The thing about sentient life is we are always finding it odd that everything seems just right for our evolution when that's why it happened in the first place. Temperatures, resources, distances, orbits, etc. If there's a world o
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Zero ships from China are bound for California's ports, not seen since pandemic(cnn.com)
19 points by ck2 1y ago|5 comments
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by ck2 1y ago
Henry Ford had a knob made that controlled the speed of the assembly line. He routinely would keep dialing it up and up and up until too many people rage quit and then dial it down just a notch. One of the first things unions negotiated for
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by ck2 1y ago
no-one voted for this this is tyranny it might take longer to recover this loss than the lifetimes of anyone alive to witness it
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by ck2 1y ago
fun-fact: kilonovas can produce "earth sized" chunks of gold https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/27/world/kilanova-gold-2016-scn-...
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New papers address mystery why GLP-1 agonists AND antagonists cause weight loss(science.org)
11 points by ck2 1y ago|1 comments
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by ck2 1y ago
So much pointless chaos and destruction just because they can. I want these idiots to live just long enough to see all the damage they did completely undone so they grasp if only for a moment how they wasted their lives being so toxic. But
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by ck2 1y ago
There's an episode on "Space & Beyond" where they show all the planets in scale to the realworld on an actual football field. Then to show Planet 9 distance they have to get in a car and drive a few miles. That worked for
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by ck2 1y ago
Ha my instant memory just seeing the word "qmodem" goes back so many decades? If Zmodem isn't available, choose Qmodem because Xmodem is slow as heck with ack after each packet I'm sure someone has a simulator around the
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by ck2 1y ago
Congress is doing almost exactly what Germany's parliament did for Hitler in 1930s: Enabling Act essentially one person rule, make all the judges not going along with it resign (or executed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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