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by ck2 2mo ago
wasn't demanding, just wanted to hear what your own logic was instead but it's pointless to go any further I guess as it's getting outside science the weak anthropic principle can't be falsified so it cannot be argued I
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by ck2 2mo ago
As fitting symbolism it would be to leave a hole next to the whitehouse, we all know what the supremecourt is gonna do I would like to see whatever is left collapsed like they do with the old buildings by blowing out the columns and then a
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by ck2 2mo ago
imagine what US real numbers are, the published numbers have to be completely cooked * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2026-08-07/us-emplo...
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by ck2 2mo ago
you don't think there is even single-cell life anywhere else but Earth? why would Earth be that incredibly unique? it's even plausible Earth was accidentally seeded by panspermia (bacteria on comets)
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by ck2 2mo ago
if they used X-Rays for that, why does Event Horizon Telescope use millimeter waves?
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by ck2 2mo ago
single-cell "life" can be so simple that scientists can create it in a lab "SpudCell" * https://www.science.org/content/article/lab-created-spudcell... somewhere among 2 TRILLION planets in our
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by ck2 2mo ago
the Great Oxidation Event caused all kinds of crazy stress = crazy mutations/adaptations where one eventually started our path * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event one of my absolute favorite PBS
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by ck2 2mo ago
There is likely simple basic life as advanced as bacteria around the universe But high level life was likely a series of complex accidents that is not reproducible or would be radically different than us One of my absolute favorite PBS Spac
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by ck2 2mo ago
what's really going to blow your mind is our solar system looked completely different several times with different proto-planets and Earth/Moon is likely made from remnants of those other planets * https://en.wikipedia.
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by ck2 2mo ago
heh, well, 275 years ago Benjamin Franklin was messing around with something he didn't truly understand but named a "battery" and three centuries later we are launching and parking multiple spacecraft with super-telescopes in
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by ck2 2mo ago
November can't come soon enough, this administration is beyond disgusting They are literally a non-stop crime-spree against humanity But if the Dems don't get 52 in the Senate absolutely nothing will change and might get even wors
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by ck2 2mo ago
astrophysics is really making some remarkable leaps this decade ("Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research" sounds so wonderfully Star Trek doesn't it)
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by ck2 2mo ago
people who can do this stuff are super-smartypants but reminds me how we're going to find out on an industrial level when the Saudis give China some nvidia chips they were grifted they've cloned lots of chips before but nothing th
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by ck2 2mo ago
oooh now I get the meme posts with the duct-taping phone to hand visiting Paris
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by ck2 2mo ago
Roman vs JWST comparison * https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14942/ launch info * https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6983/ btw what's fascinating to me is that while JWST relies o
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be best tool yet to spot killer asteroids(technologyreview.com)
4 points by ck2 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ck2 2mo ago
If I remember correctly, Stephen Hawking had to do some serious math in the 1970s to convince himself a tiny black hole was not hiding in our Sun I think there's a PBS Space Time on it (of course) adding: yup! love that show * https:&
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by ck2 2mo ago
btw this is what IC chips looked like during Apollo * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_ci...
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by ck2 2mo ago
-cough- Shizuku + ShizuTools pseudo-root via system-user * https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku * https://github.com/legendsayantan/ShizuTools * https://github.com&#x
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by ck2 2mo ago
well not at the current level of technology they don't even know how to keep astronauts from going blind or losing muscle function space and space travel really really wants to kill life even Mars is going to be a one-way trip with ver
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by ck2 2mo ago
integrated circuits were only invented a couple years before the Apollo moon missions started in 1961 imagine an alternate timeline where that didn't happen, could moon landing have even happened with vacuum-tubes? highly unlikely
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by ck2 2mo ago
is anyone else old enough to remember when cops first got tasers suddenly EVERYONE was getting tased it's like that give them a new "toy" to combat violent crime and instead it's used on everything else because zero repe
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by ck2 2mo ago
could spread-spectrum GPS solve this or would military just jam all frequencies how about ANS (aka R2-D2) the 1960s version of GPS that used stars instead of stars, preload all the known positions of LEO constellations can they put this on
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by ck2 2mo ago
previous coverage before it was approved, explaining the superiority * https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/xocova-en... * https://nypost.com/2023/10/26/healt
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Japan's superior alternative to Paxlovid called Xocova, finally available in US(shionogi.com)
5 points by ck2 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ck2 2mo ago
sure hope whomever did that knows what they signed up for this is not how you affect political change no matter how noble over $1000 in damage so felony and if they went from location to location with a smartphone pinging, all cops have to
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by ck2 2mo ago
I am so stupid-excited for Nancy Grace Roman launch just a few weeks, surprised no posts yet it's not a competition but JWST almost pales to the state-of-the-art tech (because JWST was held up for so many years budget-wise) 28mbps down
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by ck2 2mo ago
well not every runner can run world-class sub2 marathon or even vaguely close, not even in super-shoes but with super-shoes more and more runners are qualifying for boston marathon and even olympic trials marathon where it would have been i
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by ck2 2mo ago
humans discover a lot of things by trial and error (aka what I meant by "invent knowledge") basically everything Benjamin Franklin did was trial and error because no-one understood what electricity was in the slightest almost ever
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by ck2 2mo ago
btw people are DYING from this infection now: * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michigan-d...

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