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We can react the hydrogen with CO2 in the atmosphere to produce hydrocarbons and water. The water goes back into the electrolysis system, and the hydrocarbons can be put back underground where they belong. As a bonus it gets rid of some extra CO2!

An Attempt To Produce Chronic Cyanide Poisoning In Rabbits By Feeding Sodium Cyanide, paperback

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No idea, but you’d definitely die of heavy metal poisoning!

it’s a lesson that if there ever was a big one, we wouldn’t even know or be able to do anything

This isn’t really correct; near-Earth asteroids big enough to cause global catastrophe are much brighter than smaller asteroids like the one talked about in the article, so they’re much easier to detect. We’ve already mapped the vast majority (over 90%) of >1km asteroids and most of the ones in the >140m range. If any of these were found to have a high probability of hitting Earth, we could send a redirection mission years ahead of time.

There are also (ground-based) systems like ATLAS which are monitoring the sky 24/7 and would likely provide a few days to weeks of advance warning for small to medium asteroids. That’s too late to redirect the asteroid, but enough time to evacuate an area if necessary.

if that facility used only evaporative cooling, the water requirement would be 144,927 L/hour. That is an Olympic-size swimming pool every 6.9 seconds. Not nice!

You mean 6.9 hours? You’re definitely off by a few orders of magnitude there.

Yeah, the rotation was a bit of a surprise to me. Doesn’t seem like Waterfox has a setting to disable that, so I just disabled my browser’s access to the accelerometer and gyros entirely.

It’s a big problem for multi-user servers where some users aren’t supposed to have root access. For example, my university has several student-accessible servers, and they all seem to be currently vulnerable to the exploit. A malicious student could cause quite a lot of damage.

Looks like image upscaling to me, lots of phones do it by default these days.

I’m very skeptical of this. High energy radiation on photographic film generally causes a speckle pattern, where each individual particle that hits the film exposes a small spot. The distribution of speckles should also be relatively uniform across the image. This looks more like a small amount of light made it through the packaging and caused patterns as the film spun around.

A lunar eclipse here on Earth is a solar eclipse when viewed from the Moon. :)

Mostly atmospheric effects, though you get some unique colors during a lunar eclipse.

I recognize a lot of frequent posters, as well as a few people from some more niche communities. It’s nice that the platform is small enough for that to actually happen. I wouldn’t really expect anyone to recognize me, as I don’t comment a whole lot and haven’t made any posts.

This is AI slop. It’s subtle, but the graphical errors in the series of bars to the left and right of “commonly heard examples” are obvious indicators. The radio is a bit messed up too, and the text has a characteristic AI feel I can’t really explain. (I think it has to do with the sizing and spacing of the letters).

Look at the source. If it’s a reliable source, odds are pretty good it’s not AI generated. If it’s a sketchy source, don’t take it as real. All of the tips other people have given to spot AI generated content can help, but as models improve it’ll get harder to spot, and we’ll eventually have to rely on only trusting media from reliable sources.

The focus isn’t really an issue since at that distance everything is approximately at infinity (think taking a photo of two distant mountains; even if one is further than the other they’ll both be in focus).

As for tracking, it probably took some math to figure out where to point, but actually tracking shouldn’t be an issue. Hubble was moving much slower than the Earth relative to the satellite (hence the blurry background) so the tracking speed should be well within its capability.

Still a really impressive photo though!

They scrape data indiscriminately; I’m sure any Epstein files publicly accessible on the internet have been added to their databases. Perhaps they’d be filtered out before being used to train models but I’m skeptical they take that level of care with the data.

They’re based in Canada, and given their privacy-focused approach I can’t imagine they’d implement such a feature.

Wouldn’t this just be unenforceable for any Linux distros not directly owned/maintained by a US-based corporation? I don’t really see how they could force a distro to comply, unless they start going after individual maintainers who live in the US.

It might take them a few more centuries than us to develop the tech, but just because we use chemical engines doesn’t mean it’s the only viable method. I’m sure they’d figure something out eventually.