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by detritus 6y ago
Ijon Tichy's scratching his head, wondering if he's Hard Sci-Fi - as too the Ijon Tichy from ten minutes in the future who's just popped in and started eating the pancakes he'd just finished eating.
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by detritus 6y ago
Small typo on your hosting page > For these reasons we're offing to host a Haven for you
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by detritus 6y ago
Thank you for this, and more specifically for adding the relevant timestamp - and more personally - for Jaggar's answer to the subsequent question regarding complexity in hardware and software stacks, which as a layperson is something
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by detritus 6y ago
But why? I'd expect across most societies historically for males to engage in more physically stressful work. Not to undermine the value of women's work across that span, of course - but I'm genuinely surprised at your surpri
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by detritus 6y ago
> Like comets, if one hit us it would end life on the planet. 'Oumuamua is more of a 'city-killer' risk at its size than a comet such as Halley's, which would be more of the sort of range of size that could seriously
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by detritus 6y ago
...yet.
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by detritus 6y ago
Yeah, my apologies - I too was being slightly tongue in cheek. That said, if you entirely removed morality from the equation, I suspect it would actually be an efficient use of resources, to 'surgically' target varying levels of u
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by detritus 6y ago
And is the source of the wonderful term, an 'Outside Context Problem': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
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by detritus 6y ago
Mm, I recently read Revelation Space after years of being slightly put off by the various covers I'd seen it clad in (I know, I know) and was elated to find a 'stand-in' for my beloved late IMB. So similar in many ways - I wa
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by detritus 6y ago
Why then, just use kinetic/fragmentary projectiles - easy peasy!
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by detritus 6y ago
Why not? You'd likely not need IraqWarII levels of commitment - just a few enthusiastically-delivered missives at 1100kph to get the message across. A few loitering drones and a few dozen more missiles might actually be a highly effici
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by detritus 6y ago
I think they mean 'after the tree has been cut down or otherwise reached the end of its life'.
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by detritus 6y ago
Yes.
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by detritus 6y ago
(ed - I got mixed up - perhaps like Parent? I meant 'State of the Art' here, not 'Wasp Factory'. Need more tea. Wasp Factory's still worth a read early on though! ) - - - Wasp Factory has a Culture-related tale in i
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by detritus 6y ago
Use it to maintain salinity levels in deep ocean currents, to sustain current circulation patterns and reduce the impact of arctic runoff, impacting weather systems. Or something. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-
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by detritus 6y ago
@ ~0:13 "On August 18th 2021, the court unlawfully arrested Alexey Navelny and sent him to prison". What? What is this? How long have I been asleep? - ed I'm an idiot - I'm guessing this is a typo - should have been &#x2
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by detritus 6y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted - given how well sound travels in a medium like sea-water, and given how incredibly loud rockets are it's going to make life hell for sealife within a very large radius/volume. I'm a huge fan o
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm just a bystander in this regard as it's not really my domain, but have played around with AWS a bit and I must admit, I didn't realise that ElasticSearch wasn't Amazon's own product per se. Seems to me that Amaz
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by detritus 6y ago
I never unserstood that ridicule - I always thought it was an apt-description of the levels of ignorance we can honestly presume for ourselves. Refreshingly honest of Rumsfeld, if anything.
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by detritus 6y ago
Sounds like a great idea! Although I imagine the size of pulse required would probably be such that it would have some less than desired secondary effects on the upper atmosphere, technologies at ground level and the various early warning s
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm not sure what linking to this blog adds - here's a direct link to the article it relates to. https://distractionware.com/blog/2021/01/featured-vvvvvv-lev...
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by detritus 6y ago
and, critically, 'fast enough'.
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by detritus 6y ago
Off-topic: Why on Earth does gridwatch.co.uk not work in Firefox?! Other sites that do: https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ (this is the one I've seen linked more often over the years) http://grid.iamkate.c
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by detritus 6y ago
OP's first link qualifies as an easy to digest resource on the subject. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bojador )
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by detritus 6y ago
How many Goodyear blimps are there in current service, though? If there were many more than there are now, the unit cost would drop.
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by detritus 6y ago
'Too much' might be swallowed up by ITER, but given its potential to benefit the entiriety of our species and planet, I earnestly believe we should be dedicating a % of the entire world economy to pushing the development of fusion
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by detritus 6y ago
I'm with you here - I find the UK much easier to drive around than Spain or Italy, at least. Before I set out somewhere, I look at a map and scrawl on a piece of paper a list of the roads and junctions I need to use and after a brief f
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by detritus 6y ago
Fusion Energy.
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by detritus 6y ago
Thanks for posting this - I had been under the impression the maximum load was expected to be less than a gram - some of the singular 'grains' in Chamber C look like I'd expect them to weigh more than gram individually. Perha
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by detritus 6y ago
I assume not, but if your final sentence was aimed at my tongue-in-cheek appraisal of the value of chi-chi delis (which, obviously, i was shopping in) during a pandemic, then please appreciate that I also today spent 35 minutes waiting in a

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