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  • NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has returned a stunning sequence of images of its moon, Phobos, eclipsing the sun. From Mars' Jezero Crater, the rover's SkyCam and MastCam took over 65 images of the event on February 8, one per second, to ensure it captured the short event.

  • we have to vote for Biden to save democracy

    the point of voting is to choose the lesser evil, not have political parties win your vote by championing policies you support

    Doesn't seem like much to be saved there

  • will magically make everyone agree with you suddenly

    The true feelings of a liberal - it's better for people to agree with you than being right.

    when everything fails and everyone is dying

    Everyone is dying in Gaza, that's the whole discussion here. I know libs have memory issues (every next election is the most important ever) but that's pretty poor mate.

  • I don't agree with the risk that Earth will become Venus, but it is very possible we could hit the hottest temperatures since ~50 million years ago, which were too hot and humid for humans to live in.

    Projecting current emissions into the future, Gingerich found that if emissions continue to rise, we could be facing another PETM-like event in fewer than five generations. The total carbon accumulated in the atmosphere could hit the lowest estimate of carbon accumulated during the PETM -- 3,000 gigatons -- in the year 2159. It would hit the maximum estimated emissions -- 7,126 gigatons -- in 2278, based on Gingerich's calculations. Humans have emitted roughly 1,500 gigatons of carbon as of 2016.

  • I've read a couple thousand for work, there's no utility or meaning to be gathered except some people have pretty shit lives and some people make very rash decisions (and accidentally chose high lethality methods).

    I don't think I've ever read one that was like "to my family, I am sorry but I was not productive every day and I wasted lots of time"

  • Australia has huge reserves of rare earths.

    Australia also has huge reserves of cobalt too, but it's cheaper to fuck up the DRC with violence and pollution, force kids to mine it and then write articles hand wringing about the ~ moral implications of modernity ~ without mentioning there are viable alternatives.

  • Similarly in Australia there were a lot of symbolic battles that never resulted in serious injury or death.

    That said I wouldn't characterise pre-invasion Australia as great, most of the country is pretty fucking hard to survive in (let alone over 60k years of climate change)