mr_toad

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601.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> national security subsidies. The bit they always say quietly is that you need nuclear reactors to provide the material for nuclear weapons.
602.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> The sun will be eclipsed by earth many times per day Depends on the orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_angle
603.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Terminal velocity for a meteorite is still thousands of mph. It’s going to hit like a bullet.
604.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Estimates vary, but a ballpark figure is 25 million meteors hitting the Earth every day.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
A space elevator on Earth would be over 35,000 kilometres long. Depending where it broke it could wrap halfway around the Earth.
606.
by mr_toad 1y ago
In many countries for the majority of the population they can and do determine how much tax should be paid, and many people don’t have to file tax returns.
607.
by mr_toad 1y ago
They will if they want to work in the industry again.
608.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Mac apps will expect a full set of Mac hardware (not just the CPU), so you’d probably need to run a full virtual Mac for compatibility. Not impossible, but I expect it’s not a priority either.
609.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> Would love to use VR for working on a plane. I immediately wonder how much of my carry-on allowance will be taken up by a VR headset. These things are still fairly clunky.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I think you’re confusing knowing how a system works with being able to predict how that system will perform. In a non-linear system the former is often easier than the latter. For example we know how planets “work” from the laws of motion.
611.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> it's not going to work on huge tasks like removing a whole person from a photo. I use it for removing people who wander into the frame quite often. It probably wont work for someone close up, but its great for removing a tourist
612.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> just massive collections of normal matter Normal matter in the universe is mostly hydrogen, which should coalesce to form stars, which give off light. The lack of light compared to the estimated mass is precisely the paradox.
613.
by mr_toad 1y ago
“ A number of the "stars" listed below may actually be two or more companions orbiting too closely for our telescopes to distinguish, each star possibly being massive in itself but not necessarily "supermassive" to eithe
614.
by mr_toad 1y ago
A lot of these tax codes were written when computers were outdated within a year. The turnover of computers slowed a lot in the last two decades, but the tax codes haven’t changed.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Did you know Iran never had any socialists or students in their ayatollah-dictatorship revolution? I do find the way you casually cast shade by association on students and socialists at the same time to be interesting. Are they all th
616.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Each of the four F1 engines on the Saturn V burned 1.8 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen and 0.8 tonnes of rocket fuel every second .
617.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Carlisle is a small domestic airport. The other two might have been affected by the storm as well. The weather was bad enough to down trees in London.
618.
by mr_toad 1y ago
I’m not surprised to hear they’re struggling. For some reason programming is not seen to be the meal ticket it was just a few years ago.
619.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Imagine a very very thin blanket the size of a football pitch scrunched into a very small ball.
620.
by mr_toad 1y ago
I disagree that you can’t own something that isn’t physically controlled by you. Almost all of us have money which is not kept on our persons or property, in banks and investments. I think people would be outraged if someone told them it
621.
by mr_toad 1y ago
E reader batteries last a lot longer than a phone. If I read on my phone I’d have to charge it constantly.
622.
by mr_toad 1y ago
You can’t even carry one duffel bag unchecked on a budget airline anymore, unless its a very small one. Some of the cheaper airlines even charge extra for overhead luggage.
623.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Ablation turns the material into individual molecules.
624.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Starship launch costs are hypothetical, but pundits are estimating one to two hundred dollars per kg, or about ten million per launch. This would shave a significant amount off the cost of launching something big enough to de-orbit a large
625.
by mr_toad 1y ago
Even with a full on Kessler syndrome scenario happening the risk to an object moving through LEO, (rather than attempting to stay there) is minimal.
626.
by mr_toad 1y ago
If it’s anything like the SLS it’ll cost 100 times as much and take 3 times longer than if was outsourced to the private sector.
627.
by mr_toad 1y ago
A couple of dozen collisions out of 6000+ known exoplanets. Not exactly common, but not freakishly rare either.
628.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> But numbers can go arbitrarily low. Which begs the question, why 1, and not zero? I can buy zero, or a very large number. But 1 exactly? Nature doesn’t do that.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
At some point replicative drift will set in. How many replications is two million years? How long before the probes evolve? How long before they speciate? How long before a species turns on itself?
630.
by mr_toad 1y ago
> Suddenly, high adaptability and intelligence and resilience was what mattered, and being big and strong suddenly was a massive disadvantage. Maybe it was just being small, puny, and having a tendency to cower in burrows was what saved

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