science4sail

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by science4sail 10y ago
One thing that I've always wondered is why space colonization focuses so much on planets. It seems like orbital platforms would both fix the low-gravity health issue (spin the platform) and provide easier access to lucrative resources
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by science4sail 10y ago
The O2 is consumed by the plant - root cells are dependent on aerobic respiration for their energy.
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by science4sail 11y ago
Yeah, you still need to get rid of the heat eventually. For example, thermoelectric generators depend on a temperature gradient to function, but you can't maintain a gradient without some kind of heat sink that draws heat away from the
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by science4sail 11y ago
Space is "cold", but the problem is that it's hard to get rid of waste heat in space since you aren't surrounding by a heat-carrying fluid (air). Therefore a -70c superconductor would still require a large cooling appara
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by science4sail 12y ago
I imagine that he/she is looking at it from the perspective of the high-income person. In that case, defaulting is no more evil than losing money in the stock market or having one's business perform badly this quarter. Sure, the f
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by science4sail 17y ago
There are quite a few mp3 players that are superior to contemporary iPods on a technical basis.
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by science4sail 17y ago
I'm under the impression that groundwater is reachable from almost anywhere, provided that one digs deep enough.
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by science4sail 17y ago
> The Earth isn't surrounded by lead, but we are still protected from the radiation. A thick atmosphere accomplishes roughly the same effect as a few feet of lead. A magnetic field could deflect incoming charged particles, but I'm not s
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by science4sail 17y ago
I'm under the impression that current USB connections can not move data as fast as SATA links.
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by science4sail 17y ago
> How about silicon valley takes a hiatus from frivolous social apps and make some good fruit picking robots so nobody has to do it? It wouldn't make business sense now, but post deportation it might. Frivolous social apps exist because
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by science4sail 17y ago
(This is from my personal experience, your mileage may vary) Scheme and CL have different goals: Scheme aims for a quite minimal language with additional abilities primarily through libraries (part of the reason that it is often seen as a t
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by science4sail 17y ago
The problem is that ecological niche is a better determiner of size than ancestry...
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by science4sail 17y ago
Obesity is usually caused by excessive caloric intake of some sort; the energy used to generate the additional fat tissue has to come from somewhere. Of course, the definition of excessive probably varies from person to person based on many
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by science4sail 17y ago
Game-of-Life Turing Machines?
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by science4sail 18y ago
I'm guessing that Periodic means "safe" in terms of popularity and visibility, not ease of programming.