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by jvm___ 3y ago
Huntington's is horrible. You die like ALS when your lungs stop working. Before that, starting in your 40's to 60's you start getting symptoms of schizophrenia and Parkinson's, so loss of motor control and delusional tho
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The money is in growing saplings of white-pine, the ones commercial re-planters will buy - because they grow fast and can be turned into toilet paper in 25(?) years. Growing saplings of local 'slow' growing, non-harvestable specie
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The Curiosity Daily podcast had a related topic this past week. There are plans to plant 1 billion (or 1 Trillion) trees at various levels of government (WEF is the 1Trillion number). So researchers went out to try to find saplings from loc
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by jvm___ 3y ago
"Dagobah" was how I heard the search area described. Or parts of it at least. "The weather was horrible" when the pilot ejected, so if it was pouring rain and slipped nicely into a swamp somewhere - and then the rain dou
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Looking forward to the thrift stores full of audio docks with lightning cables. All the fat ipod plug ones are still around.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightnin
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I've thought about this too. Even with some miracle 'spread this powder in your backyard to remove your years-worth of carbon footprint' magic material that keeps the CO2 levels steady... humanity is poisoning almost everythi
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The seasons are already 5-25% messed up. The winter weather season is a week(?) shorter on either end in the last 50 years, so in living memory winter has shrunk by quite a bit. Current kids think today's messed up weather patterns an
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Facebook's recommended images are even worse. [picture of a surveyors dot on the ground] "This dot in a field in Wisconsin is the center of the world. The other points are inaccessible due to water, but this tiny dot is..." [
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by jvm___ 3y ago
How fast could a 6 legged cheetah run?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
If one of the snow-buried sidewalk tiles is raised higher than the others; don't push a snow shovel with your hands against your chest, when you pickup speed and then slam to a stop on the raised bit...
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by jvm___ 3y ago
We had them, but they didn't work well.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Where was the volcano?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
It sounds like you can just spray seawater into the air. The salts will seed/form clouds and then just fall back into the ocean. Not sure if making enough salt spray boats is easier or harder than just reintroducing sulpher fuels.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The glass broke like picture frame glass, all sharp-edged and spiky. Safety glass was invented as it breaks into tiny shards that are unlikely to cause major damage.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I've sat backwards in the trunk of a Ford Taurus station wagon. A few years later there was one at a demolition derby - after the first hit there wasn't much car left behind the rear wheels... Eep!
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by jvm___ 3y ago
They picked a new landing site late in the program and didn't get the topography near that site, or run enough combinations through the software in test.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Voyager 2 is already recovered, they waited until it was at the best possible (but still wrong orientation) and just yelled at it so that it heard, even with it being misaligned.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
GHY is probably https://www.goonhilly.org/ So, likely the current time at the location of the radio antennas they're using to communicate with the lander.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Why won't the people landing on the moon cater to me ?
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Scott Manly has a video on why he thinks the last one failed. It sounds like their landing software didn't have "oh crap, we're way off course, just land wherever". It only had the happy path of "fly to here and lan
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by jvm___ 3y ago
This was my early pandemic habit. Watch a long, walking only, YouTube video of some far off place. The best ones had no talking, just the ambient sounds and sometimes a on-screen note about something you were looking at. The fascinating thi
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by jvm___ 3y ago
There was a interesting video that correlated the extreme north Atlantic warming with the changes in sulpher content in cargo ship fuel. Less sulpher fuels means less bits in the atmosphere to seed rain and reflective clouds. The good news
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by jvm___ 3y ago
The climate changes seem to be catastrophic and already baked into the system. Geoengineering might work but the fixes won't be equally distributed and the poor will suffer the most. I don't see a way out of a massive redistributi
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Agreed, but they didn't ask the indoor plumbing question in the earlier censuses because it wasn't worth asking.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Hopefully life in 2123 won't be absolute shit compared to 2023. Maybe for the surviving people 2123 will be ok but the mass death that seems likely before then will suck.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
In the 1940 USA census 50% of houses reported having indoor plumbing.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
I was thinking of it's 80km/s wake through the atmosphere. Coming straight in it wouldn't be long horizontally but the clap of 15kms of atmosphere being pushed aside and then coming together behind it...
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by jvm___ 3y ago
Deorbiting a multi-million dollar satellite as a weapon was the plot of of a Tom Clancy book. The bad guy was going to launch a nuke from his ship and the only thing that could get there in time was the super special satellite.
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by jvm___ 3y ago
It would probably punch a 15km wide hole in the atmosphere, no? Which would then rapidly collapse from the sides and collide with whatever was ejected... would be fun to watch while parked somewhere safe in orbit.

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