autistic girls exist, you know?

Spaceflight creates jobs.

they’re not using raw sodium but obviously mixing it with other chemicals. so it’s not relevant.

wouldn’t the increased weight due the battery be partially compensated by a more lightweight motor? electric motors are significantly simpler and less heavy than ICE motors.

the chinese invented gunpowder centuries ago

they can

when you eat fruit, the sugar can enter your bloodstream directly through the mucosa in your mouth, you don’t even need to swallow it. although the main part of the absorption happens in the colon still.

The thing is that cows can’t digest grass either. They have an extra stomach along their oesophagus which is basically just a pouch where the grass goes in first. There are a lot of bacteria and they can digest grass. Then these bacteria grow because they eat the grass.

Then the cow swallows these bacteria and digests those. That’s where a cow gets their calories from.

animal intelligence

We need more of these videos

feels like taken in the third world where nature still exists, and animals having normal interactions in their life.

the thing with diverse flowers approach is that they don’t grow everywhere … some places you will naturally only have like 1-2 types of flowers because certain flowers prefer a certain soil and some soil is maybe too meager or sth to support a wild diversity of flowers.

Just to give you some numbers:

World population 10k years ago (prehistoric times) was said to be around 10 million, then it increased 30x to 300 million by 1000 AD (medieval age) and then it increased 30x again during the modern age.

About that last increase during the modern age: a 3x increase in food production is due to the use in fertilizer (Haber-Bosch-process) and a 10x increase in food production is simply due to more land area being used for farming. Which was possible because a lot of deforestation projects, wood was cut down and wheat planted, and draining of swamps and such. Also modern agriculture to america.

So it’s not just innovation (new fertilizer) but also quantitative scaling (more land areas used)

Perennial crops are also ridiculously underused in overall food supply chains. They are more difficult to monetize in existing commodity forms because their overall system value is not captured numerically.

I think it probably has something to do with this:

(Source for the drawing: my ass)

As plants reach maturity, there’s less additional biomass accumulated year after year. At least that’s how i imagine it, based on animal growth. Like for cattle that’s true. They grow and after 6 months i think they already have like 50% of the weight of a grown-up animal? And if you let them grow for 10 years, they would only have twice the weight than after 6 months but you pay 20x the cost to keep them alive so it doesn’t pay off at all (20x the cost for 2x the yield means only 10% of efficiency). That’s why they’re slaughtered early. I suspect a similar reason applies to plants and why they are eaten early.

Edit: i looked up the numbers for cow and calf (child cow) weights (here and here):

• At birth: 30 kg
• After 2 months: 100 kg
• After 6 months: 200 kg
• After 12 months: 400 kg
• Mature: 600 kg

then are the fragments dangerous?

Why would we want our infrastructure to be the most polluting expensive version (with shit latency BTW so you can’t selfhost), in control of basically one asshole billionaire who will gleefully censor whatever he feels like, after a critical mass of dependency has been reached?

Stop lying to yourself and others that this was “the most efficient outcome”.

NASA has tried to build their own rockets for i think 30(?) years. Like the space shuttle. The ship was expensive. Reusability never delivered on its promise to make things cheaper, instead it made them more complicated and more expensive when NASA tried. that was the public sector, it was attempted. Then SpaceX came and somehow managed to build rockets that were both reusable and cheaper than non-reusable rockets.

So yes, that’s not an ideological adherence to capitalism or anything, just plain data, that SpaceX is simply more efficient than NASA was able to be. With building rockets i mean.

i remember some startup tried to build a slingshot to shoot satellites into orbit with something like a bit catapult. that was 5 years ago, haven’t heard of them since.

Eh, i’m not so sure. I just did a quick doodle.

My opinion is that when a collision happens, it’s probably very unlikely for a single fragment to actually stay on a stable orbit around Earth. Chances are high that it gains a lot of energy and the orbit is significantly distorted. Now, if an orbit is already very close to Earth, that means that any distortion will make it not fit tightly around Earth anymore, instead will make it go elliptic and therefore on trajectory of collision with Earth. The only way a fragment would not do that is if it’s accelerated perfectly sideways, in which case it would continue to circle around Earth for 10 years before deorbiting due to atmospheric friction. So, the cascading is a bit limited.

exactly nothing as most animals and insects can’t even see the stars; their sense of vision isn’t good enough for that.

The US government fundamentally doesn’t give a crap about your wellbeing. In fact if you die at 56 instead of 76 the government can cheap out of approximately 16 years of paying you a retirement.

I don’t think that political institutions are flexible enough to think of that. It’s more likely some individual experimenting around.

I mean it is clear what’s happening here. Some dude in his 20s is playing around with AI and using it to generate porn picture of women with big boobs.

Anyways, lots of people are gonna fall for it and that’s probably gonna increase the number of recruits i guess. Since many people will think “aww, they have hot women at the military, let’s go there”. And so the military has more meat for the grinder.

I just hope that most affected will be the MAGA territories since they’re the ones starting pointless wars.