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Sure, why just this morning I got me a second car by choosing five sets of points of my old car and rotating them around a bit in my garage. No, you can't see it, it was uh... a non constructive job. (jk I don't own a car, or a garage for that matter)
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Moths, they're cool and cute.
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Bombs are insanely powerful too and yet useless as an energy source. What matters is cost in cent per kWh. Fusion showes every sign of becoming very very expensive, even in the best case scenarios.
Laser based fusion for example literally uses gold coated diamond pellets, hundreds of which have to be shot into the reaction chamber per second to even break even energyweise in theory. At that point, no energy is produced at all and costs per kWh are still infinit. And the lenses get destroyed so fast you constantly have to exchange them.
Meanwhile both renewables and energy storage technologies continue to get cheaper and cheaper. Fusion faces barriers in engineering, fundamental physics and even in mathematics (modeling plasma is critical). Some of which might be insurmountable in principle. But in the end the one barrier that matters is the economic one. And no one even has a plan on how to tackle it expect for shoveling an insane amount of tax money into the fire indefinitely.
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In Germany, funding for research is being cut alot. The solar cut happened a long time ago and fifty thousand jobs where lost at the time. Last year, they basically cancelled almost all battery research (needed for electric cars and stuff). Now, many more important stuff is being defunded. Except for fusion. Fusion is receiving a big boost in funding. Everyone and their dog are doing fusion research now
I think, that's not despite the famous "fusion constant" (fusion being always "only" thirty years away), but because of it. Unlike solar or batteries or anything else that actually works, fusion does not threaten to disrupt the oligopolies of the power companies, or the car companies or anyone else's. It enables a wealth transfer (accumulation through dispossession) to companies involved in the research, without contributing to the crisis of overaccumulation, because no use value exists, so no value ever needs to be realized. It's like building a pyramid in the desert.
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I found this on wikipedia:
Irène "was accidentally exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench in 1946". That was from her own work. She lived another ten years, then died from leukemia.
Ève lived to be 102 years old and died in her sleep in 2007.
Both actively supported peace and were anti fascists. Irène was a socialist, visited Moscow, befriended Soviet scientists and supported the Republic in the Spanish civil war.
Hate it when I accidentally drive over a lagrange point on my bicycle and the resulting tire wear leads me straight into a wormhole.
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What are signs of 'species domestication'?
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Or imagine it the other way around: The heat death has long started and we live in it. Who knows what kind of civilizations existed in the first quark gluon plasma 10-12 to 10-5 seconds after the big bang? They would have been tiny, fast and highly energetic. There are many orders of magnitude in size more between us and the plank length then between us and the observable universe. There's lots of room down there. To them, we would seem like sluggish giants living off of tiny sparks within the faded light their long dead world set free when the universe became transparent 18,000 years after the big bang.
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Life could also just slow down a lot, use less energy. It would feel the same. Billions of years go by in a flash on the far end of the bell curve. But no problem, there always more time.
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Pavlov sits at the bar with some friends enjoying drinks as someone walks in and the door bell rings. He suddenly gets up. "What's up? Are you leaving?" One of his friends asks. "I got to go," he replies, "I need to feed my dogs."
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Celebratory staff outing with a free picnic to honor a newly discovered comet on safe, far away orbit?
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Damn, I somehow thought, that they made it with their mouth or something. Now I can't stop wondering what that feels like.
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There are different ways to compare the "sizes" of infinite sets. So you could both be right in different contexts and for different sets. But the one concept people mostly mean, when they say, that some infinities are larger than other, is one to one correspondence (also called "cardinality"):
If you have a set and you can describe how you would choose one element of a second set for each element of the first and end up with every element chosen, than that's called a one to one correspondence. In that case, people say the two sets have the same cardinality which is one way to define their size (and a very common and useful one).
For example there is a one to one correspondence between the integers and the even integers. The procedure of choosing is to just take the integers and multiple each of them by two. You always get an even number and take that one to correspond to the integer you started with. So these two sets have the same cardinality and in that sense, the same size.
There is even a procedures that proofs, that the set of the rational numbers has the same cardinality as the natural numbers.
But Cantor proved, that there can never be such a procedure, that establishes a one to one correspondence between the natural numbers and the reals. So it's in that sense, that people say the reals form the larger set.
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Also, almost all real numbers are undefinable. (Unless you're using a model, that makes them countable.)
So that means, that almost all the "humans" on the bottom track are something we can not even imagine in principle. Wouldn't be surprised, if infinite Superman's were among them.
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Okay, wow, it was true all along. Thanks for sharing that cool video!
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I tried to research that, but couldn't find anything. Seems they quickly rot, even at moderately warm temperatures. I have to call bullshit.
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We're fine, the sun send just us an heart emoji.
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No, it's just a joke. But lots of veggies are.
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That laser is way too close to his eyes. Anyway, probably just seeing the speckle pattern, which granted, can look really cool and moves with your head as you tilt it.
But all three seem to be coiling in the same direction? All tilt to the left side and coil clockwise.