Thanks for sharing that, that’s cool as hell.

Drill baby drill?

I mean, airplane brakes probably have about a 3% duty cycle (the percentage of time they’re in use), so they’re generally idle. For city driving, car brakes probably have about a 25% duty cycle.

If those numbers are close to accurate, that means planes are using their brakes about 10x less than cars.

BTW, I didn’t pull those plane numbers directly out of my ass, but they’re definitely a rough estimate. I’m figuring about 5 minutes of breaking time per flight, counting landing and during the taxi to and from the runway. And I’m assuming a 2.5 hour flight, figuring that could be close to an average flight time.

I mean, you’re not wrong.

Except this specific boulder isn’t stuck in earth’s gravity well, it’s got its own thing going on.

Wait a second… how can they enforce this legislation when a VPN is masking the user’s location? How do they know the user is from Utah?

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but aren’t the users they’re trying to regulate the exact subsection of users that they don’t have the ability to identify as being citizens of Utah?

Like if a user appears to be in Utah, then they’re probably not using a vpn. And if the user appears to be from out of state, then they could be using a vpn, but also Utah law doesn’t apply to those people (because they’re out of state)… So essentially this law can’t actually apply to anyone…

Big websites will only have to do it for a little while though, a month perhaps. If suddenly Utah can’t reach youtube or Netflix… Constituents will complain, the citizens simply won’t have it, and then the legislators have a problem.

Life is carcinogenic, especially in the state of California.

If this is some sort of hybrid battery that could be possible… Super capacitors take the initial charge, pass it on to the flow battery. But as far as I know, absorbing or releasing a lot of energy quickly is just not what flow batteries do, it’s their biggest limitation.

Does Linkin Park get a badge? Has anyone ever proven that Linkin Park is human? All their songs sound suspiciously the same…

What about Nickelback?

It only needs to fly once. Honestly, it’d probably work.

But hey, I’m sure it’s all irrelevant, I mean who would ever want to vindictively drone strike Seattle…

Many fossils are remarkably affordable, if that’s your thing. I’ve seriously considered buying a megalodon tooth.

You still need to be the kind of person who can spend a few thousand on something largely decorative or of novelty value. But hey, some people buy custom forged battle-ready swords, and some buy designer purses, so you know, whatever.

Well sure, we haven’t classified all bacteria, and that is part of why new strains catch us by surprise, but to be fair, that is an impossible task.

Bacteria just mutate too quickly to ever completely catalogue them. For instance, infectious bacteria can go through hundreds of generations in a single host, over the course of a single infection. Which means that every infection presents a decent chance for them to turn into a new species.

But the majority of bacteria is not infectious, they simply don’t interact with humans much. Like, lots of bacteria are just little blobs that eat smaller bacteria. So we don’t tend to really study them extensively unless they have some other important macro effect on the world.

Yeah, we’ve only actual given a names and classifications to the majority of land vertebrates. For invertebrates and sea creatures the unclassified far outnumber the classified. For bacteria, we barely even bother, they’re like 99% unclassified.

I want to believe you’re joking, I really do…

I mean sure, publicly “who knows”, but the relevant indicators are pointing to “imminently”.

That’s exactly the attitude the author was warning against. “Trust me, I know better, this is nothing”

Sigh… That timeline adjustment didn’t go in the direction I was hoping.

I guess it was inevitable, the science showed that these quantum effects are real, so it was just a matter of time before these machines really work.

Time to rethink and replace everything.

Mobile is the only place where it matters. On a desktop, in a browser, you can use plugins to kill shorts, but there’s no workaround like that on mobile.

tbh, the concept of tiktok-style videos is really good for science and small useful info bits.

What? That’s… absurd.

I mean in the context of science, how is a tiktok style short video in any way superior to a longer form video? I mean there’s some really great science content on YouTube, vertasium, smarter every day, 3 blue 1 brown, minute physics, etc. But if you only watch a short snippet of video, what you’re cutting out is the entire scientific method, the part where they ask the questions, investigate, form a hypothesis, explain some experiments. Invariably, the short skips right to a conclusion, without any of the context. It’s like providing the right answer on math homework without showing your work, it’s functionally useless. It’s like science candy, it tastes great, but has zero nutritional value.

I can’t see any way to avoid concluding that YouTube shorts are terrible for science.

My gut instinct is that the acceleration only makes it easier.