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Tesla's Autonomy Day Presentation Leaves Biggest Questions Unanswered(thedrive.com)
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First debris pieces from the Indian ASAT test of 27 March catalogued(sattrackcam.blogspot.com)
40 points by scottie_m 7y ago|17 comments
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Astronomers Find Second Galaxy with No Dark Matter(sci-news.com)
1 points by scottie_m 7y ago|1 comments
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by scottie_m 7y ago
Right up there with the Beresheet experiment in lithobraking.
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by scottie_m 7y ago
The moon’s orbit is taking it further from Earth over time, it it’s very far away and very massive, as well as being influenced by the Sun. A satellite’s mass is almost negligible, and compared to the Earth-Moon distance it’s distance
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by scottie_m 7y ago
It depends? If the satellites used chemical rockets to produce stationkeeping thrust then they’d be long gone, but if they used some exotic power source who knows? If they had a good AI and power, there is no real limit on how long they cou
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by scottie_m 7y ago
Ok, I’ll do my best here. I’m going to pass the first question because there’s already a discussion about it below. I have some naive questions too. This is basically just me rephrasing the question I understood wallace_f to be asking: ...
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by scottie_m 7y ago
We don’t know, and may have no way of knowing. There are conjectures that the event horizon is it, that inside the event horizon is a quantum fuzz ball, or strings, or 1D points, or a whole universe. We don’t know, and may well never know.
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by scottie_m 7y ago
That’s a bit of a tricky question, because it’s math-heavy. The best way to describe it is to think of the event horizon as the black hole, and forget that there is even an interior. The black hole can be fully described by the conditions a
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by scottie_m 7y ago
You might enjoy some Scholagladitoria videos covering just such topics. As with most things the question of “what wins” between various swords is rarely straightforward, and always involves a lot of context. A shitty katana vs a splendid sa
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by scottie_m 7y ago
I think by definition it wouldn’t form a black hole, it would be a black hole. Gravitational waves are propagating disturbances through spacetime, so the kind of wave you’re describing would begin as a singularity. I don’t think (but am n
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by scottie_m 7y ago
As others have pointed out, if they’re in a stable orbit they won’t fall in (at least not for a very long time), because unlike luminous matter it won’t experience any force other than gravity. If you imagine a dust cloud of luminous matter
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What Gravitational Waves Can Say About Dark Matter(symmetrymagazine.org)
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Mercury Has Solid Inner Core, Planetary Scientists Say(sci-news.com)
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by scottie_m 7y ago
Sure, and yet mosquitoes alone infect over 700m people a year with various diseases, and rack up more than a million deaths each year. I find the Internet is surprisingly ineffective against malaria or dengue too. It’s also true that few pe
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by scottie_m 7y ago
For most of history, and increasingly today the simple aggressive behavior of bacteria, viruses and fungi was uncontested. For all of our intelligence, they still win a lot, and our best efforts are becoming less effective as they adapt. Th
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by scottie_m 7y ago
I would imagine it really depends on the fur. No doubt a squirrel fur product can be very cheap, while lion fire is going to be on the pricey side.
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Virtual Apollo Guidance Computer(ibiblio.org)
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FCC won’t let China Mobile in US, says state-owned telecom is security risk(arstechnica.com)
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Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life(quantamagazine.org)
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The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras(quantamagazine.org)
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The Most Political Animal(theatlantic.com)
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Thinking Like a Computer(americanscientist.org)
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Moonshot Computing(americanscientist.org)
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by scottie_m 7y ago
Honestly I never considered that angle, but I have to agree. I’ve always focused on grander aspects of it, but of course the small everyday lies and manipulations would be more central.
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by scottie_m 7y ago
When the US wants regime change, it usually gets it. Ah yes, that must be why Iran is a Democratic paradise free from the IRGC and ayatollahs. Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, China, Russia, Myanmar, are all so rel
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by scottie_m 7y ago
Convince parents that teaching kids to think critically is more important than indoctrinating said child into whichever religion or political sphere the parent is already a part of. In my experience that’s a broadly impossible task. Parents
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by scottie_m 7y ago
He’s not being charged for what he published, he’s being charged with conspiracy to “hack” as it were. If you’re asking whether something stops being a crime because you did it for virtuous reasons, obviously the answer is no from a legal p
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by scottie_m 7y ago
It’s not about control, it’s just that they don’t have to extend anything beneficial to the UK at the EU’s expense. Basically the UK wants a divorce, and they’re pissed that they’re not getting what think they deserve. Whatever control issu
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Sony Clamps Down on Sexual Content in PS4 Games(engadget.com)
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