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Ceres is more than a third of the mass of the asteroid belt. It's at least an order of magnitude bigger than anything else in its orbit. It's hardly a hunk of rock

He should have said "power" not electricity

Humans dissipate power in the range of old tungsten lamps - on the order of 100W at rest, brains use about 20% of that, so 20W - about the same as an energy efficient globe

Also lightning

My workplace was still using DOS machines (386s) in 2015 to format letters. It couldn't be emulated as the critical component was an ISA card

One of the pieces of work I worked on was diverting the data stream aimed at that letter system and translating it to go via our more modern correspondence system

I run teams in Firefox and it's fine. Audio and camera are stable for hours. You can use a private window to test if it's your extensions

WebEx also has audio settings which teams doesn't

I'm taking from the Australian context where someone always owns the land and it's cheaper to buy rights to place and service a turbine then to buy land

I suppose you live somewhere the land can be leased from government

You know why people who live near wind power hate wind power?

It's because their neighbour got paid to host a turbine, and they did not. It is envy.

Everyone is chemical

Veterinarian?

Automation, computers. It was the early '80s that the Australian tax office started automatic processing of tax, removing maybe 30,000 jobs

I never liked it because of the security risk (it gives too much information, aids social engineering attacks against you and your employer), but using it with very limited and somewhat misleading information in my profile and it's horrible

Living in Australia, with China just to the north as our largest trade partner, I'm not looking forward to what is going to happen with America's allies in relation to China

RF isn't magic. It is awfully finicky though, so don't touch the BNC cable

They may filter incoming air, but I doubt it

They may filter incoming air, but I doubt it

People with little mechanical sympathy definitely have less luck with equipment

Having worked in tech support for a system that I knew very well, I often saw problems vanish when users attempted to demonstrate them with me present

People would say my tech aura made it work

Really though people just take more care when an expert is present, and so avoid whatever error their earlier carelessness caused

I wonder if people who experience the opposite encourage less care among those around them

In the stone age and during an ice age

Maybe just their livers. Liver is an excellent source of iron (and everything else), unfortunately it's easy to overdose on