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3mo ago
This is recent conjecture? I grew up with micro black holes being a possibility, with conjectures such as primordial black hole evaporating down to Planck dimension stability, etc.
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3mo ago
Or did the UK (via Milanion Group subsidiaries)? - The Flamingo's claimed range is approximately twice the unclassified range of the Tomahawk Block V, allowing it to hit targets anywhere in the European part of Russia and as far as
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Older people's media literacy can be boosted in just 60 minutes
(theconversation.com)
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3mo ago
In fairness "merely self-winding" is quite the existential ambition for some. * http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/mouse.html
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3mo ago
'We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.' said Oscar Wilde with eyebrow raised toward Webster, Strunk and White. Apparently this struck a chord in mid-Atlantic anglophiles, f
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3mo ago
Gotcha. You have a distaste for those who don't abide by your particular parochial naughty word list. Transgressors are equated by you with thieves and frauds. I'm strongly reminded of Piet Hein’s Circumscripture Grook.
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Robots programmed by kids to speak their Indigenous languages
(npr.org)
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Planetary scientists are motivated to physically examine freshly fallen near pristine samples, yes. They are also keenly interested in origins, intra or extra solar system, relationships to known showers et al. The less public precursors we
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3mo ago
An estimated 61,510,000 patients underwent 93,000,000 Computed tomography (CT) examinations in 2023 [...]. This study found that at current utilization and radiation dose levels, CT examinations in 2023 were projected to result in a
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3mo ago
Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now: * https://dfn.gfo.rocks/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network * https://p
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3mo ago
Another PoV is not the profit from producing home ground fertiliser but the risk of not having fertiliser at "just the right time". Locally (Western Australia) there are some 8.3 (ish) million hectares of grain planted annually; t
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3mo ago
Built infrastructure for hydrogen storage and transport is always a challenge, it's a slippery little molecule that's expensive to contain in human built stuff. That said, there's almost always a 'cheat' and for bul
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3mo ago
Certainly giving strong Taylor Sheridan Landman ranting against windmills vibe, with a twist of bad chemistry and bias against batteries thrown in for good measure.
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3mo ago
Ignoring literally is A-Ok in my book (and forum comments) but I would point out that a "non lube" used to ease a transition, smooth an action, or remove friction is <cough>literally</cough> a lubricant (by defini
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> It's 6U of deep 19" rack space. If the GP commenter is typing in from the UK .. that's a not uncommon garden tool shed size. By contrast modern Australian farm sheds have clouds forming within them and host birds that se
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> But just build them in the US. Sorry, that's not going to work out for myself, the 8.5+ million hectares of grain growing about my location, nor for the billion+ tonne per annum of mineral resource shifted in my state. We're
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It's providing an alternative to middle east sourced fertiliser from plants that can no longer ship or, in some cases, can no longer operate due to war damage. US states aren't the only places on the globe building out renewable p
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3mo ago
> to produce a watt of electricity using natural gas actually produces less CO2 than a watt from solar that far north. For the next watt, you need more natural gas which co-releases more CO2 .. or you can just use the same solar panel ag
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3mo ago
AFR articles never seem to deny my access, it may simply be due to flushing cookies that evidence prior visits. That aside, it's a three month old article and archived back when first published: https://archive.md/cSxkZ
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Have they done bad work, lied, cheated, or stolen something?
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Just a general note on quality and herd practices really. US beef has only just reached Australian health & safety standards* after being banned for import into Australia for two decades. * perhaps it's more the case that Austra
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3mo ago
Article Title: 'A subtle mistake': How a single underscore led to an innocent Halifax man's conviction
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> I'm looking forward to eating some of the best steaks in the US. Some of the ~150,000 metric tonnes of beef recently imported from Australia?
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3mo ago
If the strait were to suddenly fully open <now> then reserves in (say) Singapore would continue to deplete until an oil ship or three reaches Singapore, which may take a while.
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That's a function of choice of "better" metric. Traditional engineers are "better" at making things work in a functional sense (eg: aircraft) whereas product people are optimised to make "better" selling p
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3mo ago
So why is the US bringing all the drama here then? Is it really just for a return to the pre-Trump status quo, only this time with the same deal not cosigned by Obama?
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Tech Crunch literally dupe'd The Guardian coverage and were quite open about it: According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday, ~ Tech Crunch
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Front line rescue workers and first responders are famously required to be polite to looky lou's wanting to make tragic events all about themselves and their dumb PR stunts.
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If only the prior P5+1 / Iran JCPOA deal of 2015 that constrained HEU and was backed up by multi country inspectors and tamper resistant / revealing on site instrumentation hadn't been thrown out the window by some fool. Why
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FWiW > it's like thinking you can prompt Linus Torvalds into writing better C++ than he already can do. Linus Torvalds, the inventor (and beloved dictator) of Linux, has always been quite harsh about C++ and why he rejects it fo
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