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by notfish 3y ago
When the cause for optimism is “some humans will probably survive”, I don’t feel very optimistic
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by notfish 3y ago
Monopole magnets probably aren’t allowable in our current understanding of physics since the magnetic field is just a consequence of a relativistic E-field.
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In Rem Jurisdiction(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by notfish 3y ago|0 comments
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Salad Theory(saladtheory.github.io)
2 points by notfish 3y ago|0 comments
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by notfish 3y ago
Reddit seems to think that Starlink is already serving users via sat-to-sat optical links https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/xsupcn/laser_link...
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by notfish 3y ago
Or just x = x mod 10 y = y mod 10
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by notfish 3y ago
One might even say that the long term weather patterns have shifted permanently. We should have a term for this, maybe something like climate change?
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by notfish 3y ago
Also, H2O is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, so this is prolly not really a great idea
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by notfish 3y ago
How? Unless you get a breakthrough with fusion, I just don’t see us finding the energy to make carbon removal feasible. You either need huge tracts of land to power forests, or massive amounts of energy from another source to do it with tec
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by notfish 3y ago
They actually just scoop em out of the ocean instead of catching the fairings now
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by notfish 3y ago
1. “Climate scientists are claiming that all changes from climate change will be bad!” is quite the strawman. No scientist really believes this, but almost all agree that the average change will be very bad for humans. 2. Climate change doe
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What experiment would disprove string theory?(physics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by notfish 3y ago|0 comments
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by notfish 3y ago
Am I misunderstanding you? Sure, we probably won’t be able to continue expanding exponentially, but to be honest I don’t really care if we grow forever or stay steady at 10 billion. There’s a significant, nonzero risk of complete species de
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by notfish 3y ago
It’s force per area so it’s definitely a pressure, the difference is just that the driving mechanism is chemical potential instead of a difference in number of particles.
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by notfish 3y ago
I’m guessing you’ve already read it, but I’ll post it for anyone who hasn’t: https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine... This is my go-to resource for explaining what it’s like to live with chronic
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by notfish 3y ago
Maybe they were cheering for failure because they know more about their goals than you do
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by notfish 3y ago
My model for understanding phenomena where quantum effects matter is this: if you think of the universe like a big sheet of something stretchy, an electron/proton/particle is just a knot tied in the sheet. Outside of some small re
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by notfish 4y ago
That quote is incredible, and now I know what coffee feels like leaving my nose
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by notfish 4y ago
This is only recently possible! They just got starlink: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-service-antar...
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by notfish 4y ago
I’ve always thought of it more like “will slam on their breaks” than “turn into a wall”. In most states, rearending is your fault unless the person in front of you stopped faster than is normal (i.e. was hit head on by an oncoming car), and
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by notfish 4y ago
We probably need to get more precise for a real answer. The number I’m getting is about 2 photons/minute per steradian; a steradian has solid area 1m^2 at 1m away. With fully dilated pupils (8mmish) you get an area of pi x 2 x r^2 = 50
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by notfish 4y ago
This fun fact gets even more fun when you consider that a human radiates a nonzero amount of visible light via blackbody radiation - on the order of a photon/minute - which means that in theory, with some luck, in an otherwise cold and
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by notfish 4y ago
Can you explain more about the focus on hover feature being intentionally missing? I’ve never heard of this.
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by notfish 4y ago
SpaceX acquired swarm in 2021: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/09/spa...
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by notfish 4y ago
Factorio is like meth for hacker brains; this post is just a PSA that we need to lock our switches away if we want to be productive.
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by notfish 4y ago
I like to play a game with my future self by laying down little traps I know I’ll fall into and be confused by. I call it singleplayer pranking, it’s great!
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by notfish 4y ago
Which is, of course, included as “The story of Mel” in the jargon file: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/
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by notfish 4y ago
Exactly. I’d also add that climate change is a just a symptom of us reaching the natural carrying capacity of Earth for humans, so adding new ways of generating power doesn’t completely eliminate the issue.
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by notfish 4y ago
I do think planned economies generally fail though - capitalism (meaning the process of letting individual agents decide on resource allocation) is a very powerful tool for optimizing something, and trying to centralize that decision making
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by notfish 4y ago
I don’t think interstellar travel necessarily implies much better tech than we currently have. I mean, Project Orion style nuke-powered spaceships can get you there in a lifetime but unless you wanna nuke your colony whenever someone needs

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