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by dark_star 5y ago
The chip shortage means I can't manufacture electronics products so I see a long period (potentially of unknown length) of no income for my business, so had to put the electronics business on hold and find a regular job. Decided to do
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by dark_star 5y ago
Hydrogen - Boron fusion is a really good thing, if it can be achieved. It requires high temperatures, but is aneutronic [1], only producing electrons which can easily be siphoned off to directly power an electrical grid: Proton – Boron-11:
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by dark_star 5y ago
archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210922205758/https://asia.nikk...
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by dark_star 5y ago
Also discussed on Reddit [1]. From the comment thread there: > Some have also spotted this part: > Osaka University has filed a patent application for the enhancing antibodies. HA and YL are listed as inventors. HA is a stockholder of
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by dark_star 5y ago
A good science fiction book about an intelligent alien race that evolved on the surface of a neutron star, written by a physicist: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466.Dragon_s_Egg
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by dark_star 5y ago
The SPAC was trying to take a YC company, Momentus[1], go public: "In November 2019, a special purpose acquisition company called Stable Road Acquisition Corp. went public, raising $172.5 million from investors to merge with a company
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by dark_star 5y ago
SuperDracos use hypergolic propellants, which can't be sourced on Mars. So SpaceX isn't using them on Starship. The HLS moon lander version will have small methalox hot gas thrusters to avoid kicking up a cloud of debris, but thes
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Planetary Sunshade Foundation(planetarysunshade.org)
2 points by dark_star 5y ago|0 comments
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by dark_star 8y ago
For the USA, this probably isn't a problem as long as we allow immigration the way we do now. Here's the population pyramid diagram for the USA: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...
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by dark_star 8y ago
I use Karabiner Elements to bind backtick (grave accent) to Esc, Command-backtick to Command-backtick as normal (so you can switch between windows of the same app), and Option-backtick to backtick. It's not optimal, but I do it because
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by dark_star 8y ago
Wikipedia has a good artist's conception picture of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM3NeT
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Change Backtick to Escape Key for MacBook Pro with Touchbar(adamfeuer.com)
1 points by dark_star 9y ago|0 comments
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by dark_star 10y ago
I don't know, but there is an open source tractor design: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/LifeTrac Primitive but think of Linux when it was released. It's part of the Global Village Construction Set, open s
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by dark_star 10y ago
From the article: "No right-thinking or peace-loving alien species would choose us, humans, for alliance. The heptapods chose us because we, like them, are consummate destroyers, so skilled at war we wage it from a distance, almost inv
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by dark_star 10y ago
I think this is the conference paper: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/phys/observatory/MergingStar/... (Linked to from here: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/two-stars-are-about-smash-into-each...
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by dark_star 10y ago
I'm reading van der Kolk's best-selling book on trauma right now - The Body Keeps the Score [1]. It's good. My therapist recommended it to me as the best book on trauma out there right now. Lots of good, current research, his
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by dark_star 10y ago
Here's the thread on r/spacex that has a bunch of analysis: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/5d9724/spacex_has_f...