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Yeah the problem has always been that solar panels only really like to operate within a very narrow temperature band. It's why you can't just plate the Sahara desert in solar panels. In theory that would generate loads of power but the heat of the desert is way outside of their operating range.

There's been loads of ideas to heat/cool solar panels, the problem up until now has always been to do that without cutting into the panel's efficiency so much that it isn't worth doing.

But there's been videos on YouTube of people cooling solar panels with plasma cooling and phase change materials for a few years now.

If you ever talk to anyone over the age of 100 every single one of them without fail, swears that the secrets to long life is brandy and cigarettes.

Either they're really on to something or they're trying to kill everyone else off.

But I'd argue you can lead a meaningful life with knee pain and far sightedness.

My back started hurting at 25, I hadn't even had a job yet.

They're talking about stretching out the whole ageing process. So if you live longer you also grow old more slowly.

Rats average lifespan is 3 years, but that doesn't mean they are really healthy, and then just drop dead, they go through the ageing process at a hyper-accelerated rate. Equally if humans had a lifespan of 120 years the old age part would move to around the 100 years mark, you wouldn't start getting old at 60 and then just be geriatric for the next 60 years.

Oh good, I was starting to distrust my French.

Why? We don't need the service to be popular. That's the great thing about it being decentralised, it kind of doesn't matter.

Also we don't want a bunch of French people on here, speaking their strange heathen lingo.

Didn't one of the old superman actors recently come out to complain that superman is woke. He literally played the character and didn't get it.

I know that context is sometimes hard to discern in text, but good god that was an obvious one.

It's especially pathetic seeing European right wing politicians use the phrase. It's always fun to challenge them to define it because they can't.

Doctor who has a lot of guest writers and it shows. There's some really good stuff and then there's other episodes which really didn't need to be made.

I'm convinced that that was just something that they decided to tack on to as an afterthought because it doesn't really make sense to view it in that context.

Especially if you include the sequels.

Sir, may I recommend the Volkswagen, this model it has greater surface area.

He hasn't got a licence plate so clearly he's now on trackable.

Is this guy trying to suggest that oxygen is bad? In his case I would agree that it's probably not a habit worth maintaining but generally speaking I tend to find oxygen to be rather agreeable

I wanted to do an Office Space/Waiting style show but set in the big box retail world.

At university my roommate was in a media, and one of the things they had to do was to come up with a show and actually produce an episode of it. Anyway his idea was comedy set in ikea, I genuinely think it would have worked.

He'll die sure maybe even their natural causes if we're unlucky but he'll not leave.

There's no scenario where Trump is still alive but not president.

Sometimes you'll search for a ticket and it straight up just doesn't find it. Then you search for it again and wow, now it's suddenly appeared.

I would take literally anything above Service Now.

Leaves office? You think he's ever going to leave voluntarily he's going on about having a third term.

That's not what suspension of disbelief is.

It's all about creating a story that's believable within the rules of the setting. So within the rules of sci-fi faster than like travel is perfectly reasonable. Hell it might even actually be physically possible we don't know.

But musicals don't really do that, they don't really explain why suddenly everybody is singing in perfect harmony despite apparently having never practised, it just happens and no explanation is forthcoming.