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  • I've got a similar battery bank. It'll turn 4 hours of capability into 12, with no issues.

    Mine is a veektomx MAX65W. 20,000mah.

    Just be aware of capacities. The limit is either 100Wh or 160Wh depending on the airline. That works out at 27,000mah or 43,250mah respectively. Most power banks are below this, but not all.

  • Natural gas is a byproduct of ancient organic material being buried and slowly cooked by the earth's heat. The hydrocarbons of the plant break down, and the gas rises. Under certain conditions, it gets trapped below non-porous rock and builds up.

    Basically, all fossil fuels are Carbon fixed from CO2 by plants, then trapped underground. The solid material we call coal, the liquid oil and the gas natural gas.

  • It seems to allow it, in a sense. The errors are also left on the transmission end. By transmitting them normally, the 2 signals can be combined to recreate the data. Something is shared, at some point.

    It's definitely a "we're not sure what's actually going on" type situation though. Either both ends are drawing on some (otherwise) hidden data layer, or FTL transmission is allowed, so long as no information flows (information as defined by quantum mechanics). It just turns out that weird entanglement based systems are the only ones (we've found so far) able to send infomationless transmissions.

    Both solutions would give deeper insights into reality, and its underpinnings. Unfortunately, we've not actually teased out which is happening.

    My gut feeling is that the speed of light is a side effect of a fixed/stable causality across all rest frames. Hidden information seems to be a lot more cumbersome.

  • Most of the more recent benefits have been by working smarter, within the boundaries, rather than pushing the boundaries. Both have diminishing returns.

    There's still room for improvement in both, but not infinitely. We likely already have a lot of the low hanging fruit for brute computing tasks.

  • The universe seems to be keyed to disallow time travel. The speed of light limit, in relativity, is sat exactly at the limit where time travel would become possible. Conversely, quantum mechanics does allow for FTP transmission. What it doesn't allow is information to flow along those links. It's hit with a 0.5 error rate, which completely blocks FTP communication.

    General relativity does allow for a few time travel options. However, these are sat well off in the sticks, where quantum relativity would dominate. Since we don't have such a theory yet, our predictions are likely wrong. Even within these theories, a time machine would require a "closed timelike curve". These can, in theory be made using several rapidly rotating black holes. Any ship traversing it, would never be able to leave before the time machine was built.

    Basically, time travel is almost certainly blocked by our laws of physics. Any loopholes would be limited to the lifetime of the "machine" and would require stellar level engineering for even a few seconds of travel.

  • I can't.

    99% of my mind is emotional or monkey logic. Getting it to accept logic is like trying to tame a bunch of cats. It works, so long as you can feed them enough dopamine. Fail, and they'll want to eat your face.

  • I tend to envisage my mindscape as an orchestra. My consciousness is a fictitious conductor. It doesn't exist, but the lie that it does makes it easier to coordinate things between the instruments. In some manner, by acting on that lie, it is no longer a lie.

    In this analogy, when the brain hemispheres are separated, then the orchestra is split in 2. Both develop a conductor, to try and remain functional. Neither conductor is the original me, but neither is not me, at the same time. It would be unpleasant for the variant left unable to communicate however.

    I've actually experienced something that felt close to this before. A combination of sensory overload, and panic attack. My mind momentarily became completely discordant. As it sorted itself out, my consciousness reasserted itself in several different loci. In effect, my orchestra had 3 different conductors. It took almost a minute for them to stop pulling against each other and meld into 1 again. I have memories of all 3 sides in the 'battle'.

  • Ultimately, humans are quite poorly designed for modern life. Our minds haven't significantly changed since we were chasing herbivores across the savannah. Our bodies never even finished coming down from the trees. The fact we function as a modern society is actually quite impressive.

    Depression is likely a bunch of different instincts and survival methods messing each other up. It's likely got ties to hiding. It also likely has got ties to hibernation, along with 101 other minor instincts that can no longer serve their original purpose.

    I do know that "learned helplessness" is common to most mammals. Rats can show it, along with depression, when conditions get weird enough. It makes sense as a fall back. Huddle down and save energy until something changes for the better.

    One of our biggest advantages is our rational brain. Stopping our own instincts is like trying to stop a goods train. What we can do is be smart. We can reach in and tweak the controls, change the signals. It's hard, particularly with things like depression clouding our thoughts. But it can be done.

    I am a ghost in the machine, inside of a bodged together biological computer, piloting a poorly designed meat mech. It's completely absurd, but if I don't take control of it, who the hell will?

  • Fully agreed.

    With depression it's more of a lethargy paralysis. It makes you feel like it's too hard, and not worth all the effort. Once you are moving , it becomes more obvious how hollow that feeling is. It often doesn't go away, but can be fought against. I suspect it's why exercise is helpful for some, but not others. It helps get you into the mindset of doing things. When it's mild enough, this can shatter the false walls on your mind.

  • It also helps overcome the paralysis of perfection.

    Sometimes just producing something will do far more to help you improve than any amount of prep work. Do a half arsed job, then figure out where you actually need to improve it. By that point you will have a lot more momentum to keep working on it, and a lot more idea where to focus.

  • Don't measure by just breeding, measure by how many grandchildren they have.

    An animal that has 10 babies, but they all die, doesn't pass on its genes. A wolf that dies in its den, causing some of its offspring to die is hurting its own genetic heritage.

    It's also worth noting that genes can be selected for at the tribe/pack level. You don't need to breed, so long as your sisters/brothers/cousins/parents breed.well enough to compensate.

    At the extreme, you have things like bees. A normal bee is sterile. It's completely reliant on its specialist brothers and sisters to propagate its genes.

  • We do, GMT.

    This is a relativistic correction. Time on the moon runs very slightly faster than time on earth. This means that time on the moon will drift ahead of time on earth. By using a slightly longer second, lunar time will stay in sync with earth time.

    Earth sees lunar seconds as too fast. The moon sees earth seconds as too long. Both are completely true. (Welcome to relativity)

  • Atomic clocks don't use atomic decay. They used the frequency of the light emitted by a very specific energy change, within an atom, under very controlled conditions.

    The frequency of light will look the same on the moon. However, an observer on earth would see a very slightly different frequency from the moon clock.