Tlaloc_Temporal
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Cat Calibration 3 days ago:
That happens regularly whenever the bones start to solidify. It’s analogous to the “strech” function on other platforms, but functions significantly differently.
- Comment on Owl Pellets 5 days ago:
I think most if not all tetrapods should have the 1-2-3-4-5 hierarchy for their arms and legs (although the later branches often fuse together).
I just checked, and mice have the 1-2 pattern for front and hind limbs. It’s just the arms that are weird, but this mouse’s arms have always been weird.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 5 days ago:
And wild curves of extrapolation, and wild planes of extrapolation, and wild queues of extrapolation, and…
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
Some cells are getting 47%, which is ridiculous for a generator! The theoretical maximum efficiency for solar cell from the sun as it appears in the sky is about 68%, so that’s pretty good!
However, how expensive is that cell going to be? How much maintenance does it need, and how fragile is the system once deployed? It’s very obvious that PV efficiency has beed skyrocketing recently, and I don’t thinks it’s stopping soon, but a commercial PV panel available today is just breaking 20% efficiency. Luckily, sunshine is quite abundant.
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
Ooo, good call.
There’s also radioisotope piezoelectric generators, where the electrons are caught by a cantilever and then released in regular pulses. An electron waterwheel if you will.
- Comment on Kermit :) 6 days ago:
Kermi Tree Frog
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 6 days ago:
Lots of metamorphic bugs do this. Even the ones that eat as adults often die that same year, after 3-20 years as a larva.
- Comment on But yes. 6 days ago:
The only really new kinds are thermocouples (mostly garbage) and solar panels (poor efficiency, but abundant fuel).
Some fusion might end up using magnet pumping, which is basically just a plasma powered piston.
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
I feel like this is more an issue of poor healthcare than personal choice. It seems like rather than the U.S. chosing to be opt-in, they are physically unable to give everyone the choice to opt-out.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 1 week ago:
Several videos have been removed (including one for being violent?).
The original came from twitter, but has since been removed (I think, maybe x is just bad), but the DailyMail did a news article on it (ugh) and happen to still host the video.
- Comment on critical latex mod 1 week ago:
That’s probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
Also, the cooling effect sulphate aerosols can cause only really happens at high altitudes. At low altitudes the reflected light is less likely to escape to space, and the aerosols fall out of the air faster.
Even if they reached high altitudes, one of the effects of being in the atmosphere is moving with the wind, across entire hemispheres. And at tropospheric heights, sulphates, their products, and other byproducts of combustion may destroy ozone at significant levels.
There may come a day where aerosol-based geo-engineering becomes a part of climate management, but it’s definitely not with bunker fumes.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost analogous. A more massive object experiences a larger force caused by gravity, so assuming the gravity field stays the same, a larger mass is heavier.
You’re right that it’s technically incorrect, especially when talking about something like moving the Earth with gravity.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Both accelerate at the same speed, but the bowling ball completes it’s fall first because the Earth was pulled up to meet it. The bowling ball falls faster not because it’s moving faster, but because it’s fall is shorter.
- Comment on Absolute Units 4 weeks ago:
Whales are surprisingly new.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
an intelligent species isn’t going to be limited by chance encounters.
That’s actually a fantastic point, we change our environment to be more suitable to ourselves, including cultivating unique yet safe species. I’ve never heard of a poison dart frog farm, nor a field of death caps.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Aliens tree people is an interesting picture indeed.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
That’s based on species though, so it would overrepresent unlikely encounters. I can go eat pine bark or grass on any continent and probably be A-OK.
I do wonder how that data compares with other mammals though. Is it just average, or is it significantly higher?
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Scavenging carcasses and chasing predators away from a kill is definitely a behavior we had in the past. Particularly during droughts and famines, scavenging would be an important food source on the Saharan scrubland. IIRC, this would’ve been before persistence hunting was a thing, back in the H.erectus days, maybe even as far back as some Australopiths.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
It is kinda weird that humans are so resilient to so many things though. It’s part of being scavenging omnivores, but alients with a more specialized diet might be weirded out.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
There are probably a few handfuls of other parasites that would count too.
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 month ago:
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
Reminds me of tumbleweeds, which may as well be a Soviet bioweapon.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
I think that would make coal. Oil is made by algal anr plankton blooms, which we are also making.
Both also need heat, pressure, and time to form, so synthetic carbon products are certainly chearper.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
There’s a difference between sharing information and a river of glorification.
Not all the WWII history shows glorified it, but lots of them did and did often. I’ve heard too much about the brilliant tactical minds that ensured the fall of Nazi Germany and paved the way for democracy and freedom. Too many tank battles are called great, and not enough called tragic. Famines and desyruction of infrastructure ate often mentioned for their strategic effects, and rarely for the rapid destruction of society they cause.
- Comment on SKUNK 1 month ago:
Wow, this episode is really experimental. I was not expecting the twist, but it’s quite good!
- Comment on stacked 1 month ago:
Not even /s, there are signs of posts planted upright nearby, a so-called woodhenge.
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
Fire gets it’s energy from fuel+oxygen. Most life does too. Plants (and other photosynthetic organisms) can also get energy from light but that requires you to sit in the sun doing not much for a long time. There’s also chemosynthesis, where energy is obtained from a chemical reaction, but that’s usually not nearly as powerful as oxidation.
Put another way, a car with NOS is way faster and more powerful than one without. So too is life that uses oxygen more powerful than life that doesn’t.
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
See that’s more realistic. Sneaking off to walmart is still a bit of a stretch in sprawl-hell, but I can see how a cheap locally available phone might make it’s way into anyone’s hands, especially as a hand-me-down.
- Comment on I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt. 2 months ago:
᚛ᚑᚌᚆᚐᚋ ᚔᚄ ᚐᚃᚓᚄᚑᚋᚓ᚜
Ogham is awesome
I’ve used it for cryptic languages in TTRPGs before, alongside a few other runic scripts like ᛖᛚᛞᛖᚱ᛫ᚠᚢᚦ︍ᚨᚱᚲ.
My favorite is Gallifreyan, which doesn’t have unicode, is far too niche and homebrewed to have unicode, and how the hell would unicode even work?
