Troy @ troyunrau @lemmy.ca

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary S

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Met him once after he gave a talk on campus. Decent dude.

He asked the lecture hall an interesting question about the explorer mindset. It was during the era of the MarsOne media-fueled vapour hype. "Would you take a one-way trip to Mars?" And then started asking why, or why not (the consensus of the room was nearly unanimously "no"). And talked about explorers ancient and modern, and how risk was no longer tolerated. Very interesting fellow.

RIP.

If you hold your nose really close to the screen, you can pretend to smell it. It's part of the new jpeg metadata.

Very true. However, it doesn't add new material to the equation. If we need it to build electrical infrastructure, recycling won't suffice.

Recycling aluminum is actually literally the best thing you can recycle in terms of environmental impact and cost efficiency. There are other things we recycle, but nothing pays off nearly as well.

That alternative material is aluminum. It's like a top four abundance material in the crust. It's just super fucking hard to refine from minerals that don't like to give it up without oodles of energy. Like, turn minerals into plasma levels of energy. So the irony is, to grow our energy economy past the need for copper, we will first need to grow our energy economy.

Should fusion ever actually meet its promise, then this is one of the likely things we could do with this level of energy.

If we ever become a spacefaring civilization, it'll almost certainly be necessary during the colonization of other planets/moons/asteroids, since the geological processes that concentrate copper on the earth are not present in those places. Whereas aluminum is plentiful any place rocky.

Understand that science is a name given to both a method, and to a mostly self-consistent body of models that can be used to make useful predictions. Science doesn't get things wrong. Science gets iterated upon.

Didn't notice until you said anything. Getting too used to jpeg

Very very

Yeah, presuming a typo there. Or Freudian slip at worst.

Bernie would have arrived with a plan, at at least something better than a concept of a plan. Assuming he decided to put tariffs on China, he probably would have raised tariffs slowly, announcing everything clearly in advance. So the market has time to spin up alternatives instead of sudden shocks causing inflation.

Awww. What a cute pet that cat has.

Not since like 2010. Unless you're still using spinning disks somewhere in an old NAS in a closet.

Well, okay, might also depend on your definition of strong.

Yeah, if they're dead serious about it, this is much funnier. In the haha, society is so fucked sense.

I wash as I cook. Usually you have moments when you're waiting anyway. Means I have serving dishes only afterwards.

Had to make it a habit though in order to force myself to do it. Took years to train the habit.

Thanks for your hard work. Also it's very interesting in that the nature of the traffic is unknown. Bots scouring content?

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And they're all going to raise their hands in dispair when they get hacked, scammed, exploited, or sued.

I can sense the tail twitch

Mod the bossfights out of Witcher 3 or BG3 and they'd both be awesome

Any significant communities impacted? Scrolling through my subscriptions list and I don't have any in my list.