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I think this is a big reason electric regional and short distance VSTOL/eSTOL will take off for both light cargo and passenger flights.

Electric aircraft aren’t on paper a great bet right now when you look at energy density and weight but that is an easy trap to get stuck in, you have to zoom out and consider how alternative energy generation potential in certain areas like arid deserts or places with a lot of wind energy to exploit could be used to charge electric aircraft with large batteries that could then fly to other regions and potentially make use of that energy in a different region than the one the alternative energy genertion occurred in. Of course that requires huge batteries but consider that alternative energy generation can “subsidize” flights to and from regions without much alternative energy/expensive energy because one leg of the journey is guranteed to be unusually cheap.

Electric aircraft could fly from alternative energy rich regions charging up for the bulk of their flights on affordable low carbon footprint energy to areas without it and then if need be charge off more expensive electricity sources until the aircraft can reach an alternative energy rich region/conditions again.

To put it into as few words as possible there is an undeniable logic here that if placing some alternative energy that cannot be currently used into battery storage is a good idea, than placing some of that energy into batteries that can fly to other places that need electricity or affordable flights is an even better idea once you work out all the difficult details.

The ONLY reason they would not reveal the details and bask in the news coverage is it is mostly hyped up marketing.

Not going to replace human mathematicians, the only reason this worked was there was a large body of research generated by human mathematicians the AI could bullshit off of. You stop funding the humans, no magic AI.

Refining my Steam Deck control scheme for Cold Waters, I have been enjoying the expanded road system in Motortown which makes some taxi jobs a ~10 minute drive at full speed driving like a maniac it is very fun and I have been playing Operation Harsh Doorstop for my battlefield fix.

Also been messing around in Luanti more.

Wait photons don’t interact with gravity at all? It is just that the warping of spacetime by gravity effects light indirectly?

Oddball suggestion, do you know anyone into pottery? A nice simple coaster shape is easy to make a lot of as a potter and it provides a good basis to test glazes on. Normally potters will make a series of test tiles to explore glazes and they don’t actually have much practical use compared to a series of coasters they knew would actually be distributed and used and represent a meaningful event to someone.

I bet you could make a nice simple logo and text to imprint into the clay and get a set of 20 or so made pretty easy this way! You will also give your potter (newfound?) friend a practical project of focus on!

Exchange alcohol for the services and boom you don’t ever even need to exchange money if you don’t want to.

I mean if it gets people to click, why not just blame it on the AI headline optimization tool you used?

sigh

Oh come on it’s not that people hate new Star Trek shows

…YES, yes it is?

Im sad, there was such heart and potential in this generation of Star Trek.

Fuck the haters.

Yes that is precisely what it measure, but Chemistry teachers confidently taught me the pH scale over and over again like an an arbitrary continuum to memorize until I finally had it framed in a perspective that illuminated the central role of water.

Yes technically if you just learn the pH scale you should be able to conclude that I guess but sorry not sorry most chemistry I have dealt with is completely ignorant of the power of teaching people big ideas. Everything is fiddly, disconnected and full of little memorization rules that feel utterly arbitrary in chemistry.

If my geology professors had taught chemistry they would have started with big ideas like that, but chemists taught me chemistry.

The way I see it is like how molds on a petri dish and human cities tend to grow in similar shapes. There are natural patterns and molecules that are useful for certain types of things, I would suspect alien life to stumble upon many of the same useful chemical and physical mechanisms life on Earth has but the story of how it happened would likely be confoundingly different in surprising ways we wouldn’t expect. It isn’t life “happening the same way” for alien life to evolve based on water and carbon blueprints, it is more like when you put a growing organism on a flat plane, there are natural rhythms and patterns that echo throughout our universe that optimizing systems will find and build upon.

I mean if you step back and think about it, if some of the basic chemical processes that life on Earth does were possible on an Alien planet with Alien life that was unable to exploit that advantage… wouldn’t that be in a way of sort of strange refutation of evolutionary theory? Why would an obvious chemical pathway be left unexploited by life in competition with itself?

Of course complexity is always a barrier, evolution isn’t perfect or instant, it doesn’t necessarily explore every possible solution before settling on one that is good enough in a context, but it begs the question, if the processes on Earth that are optimal for life to Exploit are found on other planets, why would either life on Earth or Alien Life be substantially suboptimal in its solutions compared to the other? Wouldn’t that suggest some magic difference in Evolutionary capacity of Life in one place vs another in a way that crumbles away upon rational inspection?

To put it bluntly, if we have no proof the laws of physics differ elsewhere in the observable universe, why should we expect Evolution to behave differently? No matter if the characters names are different and the stories happen according to their own unique paths, we are still playing along the same weaving patterns.

If you had a sea full of Si02 and CaCO2 well animals that need homes are gonna eventually stumble on that as a building material right?

One of the things I will never forgive Chemistry for is how it didn’t introduce Acid and Bases from the perspective of a continuum of modifications on Water molecules that can accentuate into an “imbalance”.

It makes it all so less arbitrary from that perspective, but Chemistry is atrocious with the big idea stuff lol.

Yes, water is a stunning force of nature though, I would not be surprised if alien life didn’t depend on it but I also would not be surprised at all if it did to some degree.