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I firmly believe that a “crustless ice mantle” meets the definition of an ocean.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
People got convinced that it was normal to sell their souls and reproductive opportunities to the algorith.
- Comment on NASA uses force field on Moon to sweep away deadly dust 1 day ago:
The result is a clinging, charcoal-like dust that coats spacesuits, lenses, gaskets, and other equipment. This has been a problem ever since the first lunar landing missions in the 1960s when the Apollo astronauts would return to the Lunar Module looking like coal miners as the dust got everywhere, interfering with equipment, wearing down components, and not doing the Neil Armstrong et al’s lungs any good either.
Maybe this tech can end up helping to improve air quality once it makes its way back to Earth.
- Comment on Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine drop to lowest level since June 2024, monitoring group says 1 day ago:
Articles reporting territorial gains/losses ought to include a map to make it clear how large the changes are relative to the amount of land Russia has stolen.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 5 days ago:
Yeah, it’s called wipe the drive and install linux.
- Comment on I've done it again... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Majority of French, Germans and British think Trump is a 'dictator' 3 weeks ago:
I remember 2008, and stated how I remembered it.
We have both shared our priors (biases).
What I was essentially asking: who was saying that Obama would be worthy of ridicule, especially compared to Bush?
And by posing it more directly, I remember that our current president was being a racist birther at that time. I also knew some other racists at that time, and by recalling these have answered my own question.
I remember that the international community of politics was more on the side of ridiculing Bush and welcoming Obama, regardless of what was said domestically.
- Comment on Majority of French, Germans and British think Trump is a 'dictator' 3 weeks ago:
I’d like a source on 2008.
What I remember is that the world was already laughing at Bush for 8 years, and Obama restored their respect.
GOP has always been the party pushing candidates that the rest of the world has laughed at.
- Comment on You gotta look backwards when you're driving in reverse 3 weeks ago:
What a wild ride. I did a lot of cool shit, and my best to do good for the world. Overall I’m proud.
There are still some niggling details I’m trying to figure out. Reverse? Or just revisiting? Regardless I feel it irresponsible to move forward if I leave the loose ends dangling.
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s not a jar; it’s a door, open or closed.
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 4 weeks ago:
Yoga and canning beans are both great hobbies. You pick weird things to use as examples of the worst way getting sucked into QAnon could go.
- Comment on WWJD 5 weeks ago:
Today I learned that applying for foodstamps is a super easy way to get a large folder full of literature about job openings and trade apprenticeships in your area. And there’s free food!
- Comment on ESO's VLT reveals inner wind layers of distant exoplanet - NASASpaceFlight.com 5 weeks ago:
Gotta love how versatile the doppler effect is.
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 5 weeks ago:
Word to the media: don’t bother us with this shit until they have a working idea on how to monitor and regulate the shit so we can all have flying cars and not just one dude’s stupid prototype. The hard thing isn’t making a car that can fly. That shit is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how air traffic would work if everyone was up there. It’s already a PITA and there aren’t a helluva lot of planes compared to cars.
If they’re all automated and coordinating, NASA has put a lot of effort into researching how to coordinate a swarm of airborne agents with diverse goals.. I’d imagine that these prototypes have gotten further development and a reality-collision as drone systems have been deployed and evolving in the Ukrainian theatre. The tech for this might actually finally be ready.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You did a good job separating the interior wires to increase their surface area with the solder. Splaying out the bristles allows the solder to penetrate the whole wire and enables a good connection. You didn’t make the Arecibo collapse mistake.
You have a lot of small chunks with poor interconnectivity. It’s like you dripped solder onto the wires and let each drip cool before the next one landed. Try remelting the solder into a contiguous pool and letting it reform the connection. Maybe even add more solder so there is enough to coat the available surface.
The only structure holding these wires in place is the solder. Try poking some of the wire bristles through the holes that you are trying to make a connection with. Aim for a closer connection between the wire and the breadboard, and structural integrity against impacts. Compared to your wires attached next to the conductive holes, a wire threaded through a hole that gets knocked around is more likely to end up in a new position that remains in contact with the hole.
Make a solid and strong connection using the structure of the the materials, then add solder to glue it into place. Look at how the clips on the components that you are attaching to use their shape and rigidity to keep pressure against the conductive holes. Make sure that the solder fully melts and makes a contiguous connection.
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 1 month ago:
If they can still clap when the plane lands, they will.
- Comment on slurp slop 1 month ago:
Guess and check and guess and check and check the guessing by guessing a new way and checking out what happens.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
Look up the Bell Riots.
Great stand-alone two-parter from Deep Space 9 about the 2020s.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
Yeah, right after the wealth inequality and homelessness crisis and plagues of the first half of the 2020s.
- Comment on Good for Franklin 1 month ago:
Size matters!
Also: a few extra vertebrae to share the load and reduce the local curvature. Don’t slip a disk!
- Comment on Good for Franklin 1 month ago:
Ribs aren’t what get in the way.
- Comment on my version is better 1 month ago:
That’s when it’s time to write a cover.
- Comment on Envy is a strong sentiment [Trump / Musk] 1 month ago:
He never did, he just bought them.
- Comment on UV solder mask laser exposure 1 month ago:
Photolithography is so satisfying to watch. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on The Safety Alternative 1 month ago:
Stool forme s
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 1 month ago:
New perspectives and ideas and life experiences to draw from when a creative solution is needed. Diversity of experience yields creative solution-space possibilities. The more diverse your input space, the more potentially diverse your output space, depending on the function.
NASA is an organization whose activities push the boundaries of possible future technologies. We need people from all parts of society dreaming of and contributing to the future if we want a future society that is considerate of the needs of all parts of society. NASA’s wonder changes the world. The more people who are different and who are wondering in different directions, the more possibilities can unfold for the future.
Maybe short-term productivity benefits from a monoculture of people who are currently “the best” and all know how to work together seamlessly because they come from the same culture. Such a monoculture will not be adaptable as the landscape of technology changes the metrics by which “the best” get measured. It will not have the diverse foundation required for creative solutions. Being adaptable to a changing world requires creative solutions. Diversity is an investment of current productivity into future resilience. Diversity is extending the promise of contributing to grand societal projects like space travel to anyone who is capable. Diversity is building a future that can support all of us.
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 1 month ago:
Prior to Trump’s orders, NASA was named as one of the best employees in the U.S. for diversity in 2023. NASA’s workforce is composed of approximately 35% women and 30% minorities, according to a 2021 report by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. Still, the agency had more work to do to improve inclusion amongst its workforce. A 2024 report concluded that “despite support from Agency leaders and multiple initiatives to increase diversity, we found NASA has made little progress in increasing the representation of women and minorities in its civilian workforce or leadership ranks,” NASA’s Office of Inspector General wrote. “Specifically, over the past decade NASA’s overall workforce demographics have stayed roughly the same, with small increases (1 or 2 percent) for some groups.”
After decades of improvement, our strategies were stalling and starting to either hit diminishing returns or backfire. Instead of reflecting and listening and learning how to bridge the final gaps, we are going to forget and eliminate all progress made so we have to do it again and start from scratch.
- Comment on Life's 'basic building blocks' found in asteroid samples 2 months ago:
Bennu is like a primordial soup bouillon cube.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 months ago:
Sharing data with the plebs is the true crime.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 months ago:
This article’s preamble cites this news story as the motivation for writing the rebuttal presented.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 months ago:
Literally the news story that this author cites as motivation for writing this article in the preamble to the article.