This was a great explainer, but didn't get into the policy ramifications: it could basically double spending on Medicare Part B because of the large overlap of the potential users with Medicare beneficiaries and the high annual cost of the medication, leading to higher premiums for all beneficiaries. It's pretty bonkers!
You just let this twitching tarry blob slither up your nose and do its thing and when its done we'll just leave it in there in case you need it again
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
oh man if that li'l blob could sort out the tangled, haphazard wiring in my brain and organize them and put them in clips and stuff, I'd snort it up like coke.
get in there, get to work.
tangentially related, I once read this pulp post-apocalyptic book where this guy was a psychic, but a more powerful psychic burned out the part of his brain where psychic powers live. but it's okay because a snail the size of a skyscraper made a tendril (it had tendrils) microscopic and it went into his brain and fixed his psychic powers.
Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency—a performance better than that of traditional steam turbines.
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Mr_Rose83 Blue Ridge Protects the HolyRegistered Userregular
Assuming this isn’t some sort of special condition exception, RTGs just became unbelievable - NASA’s next-gen probes will love it.
If it’s scalable to industrial levels then we can finally free ourselves of turbine halls on … well every thermal reactor use… the space savings alone…
Assuming this isn’t some sort of special condition exception, RTGs just became unbelievable - NASA’s next-gen probes will love it.
If it’s scalable to industrial levels then we can finally free ourselves of turbine halls on … well every thermal reactor use… the space savings alone…
Special condition would be that it needs temperatures in the 2000-2400C range to work. That's well above the melting point of steel for example. Existing RTGs run 1000C on the high end.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
Twitter was going nuts last night about Higgs Boson or whatever in the way that everything is gonna change and would anyone in here know what that's about. I figure there's something just not the overreaction obfuscating it
Twitter was going nuts last night about Higgs Boson or whatever in the way that everything is gonna change and would anyone in here know what that's about. I figure there's something just not the overreaction obfuscating it
Disclaimer: I actually know fuck-all, especially about anything reported specifically within the last day. This is my version of the news from the past two weeks or so on the particle physics front, presented mostly for my own understanding.
So there are building blocks of matter that are smaller than protons, neutrons, and electrons. The thing is, once you get to things that are that tiny, they're held together by forces powerful enough that those things would really, really rather be protons, neutrons, and electrons, than just themselves. So it's hard to detect them individually. Science has chosen to address this by building a giant-ass racetrack for small particles, whipping some of them clockwise and others counter-clockwise until they get lucky and two lumps of matter going in opposite directions smash into each other, and then examine the wreckage before it congeals back into the stuff we already know about.
It turns out that there are a lot of distinct pieces to those protons, neutrons, and electrons, and science keeps finding new ones and using the measurements it takes about the ones it found to guess what the rest of the them are going to look like. Well, there's one particular piece that science has been having trouble finding a copy of, but within the past couple weeks... one showed up! They caught it on camera, weighed it, measured it, all that jazz.
Aaaand... it was smaller than expected. And not just a little smaller than expected; by the measures of how far a thing is outside of expectations, it was really fuckin' smaller than expected. Which means either the tools fucked up and science took a bad measurement, or, if we keep finding ones around this size, a lot of the math we already have is wrong. And with science, when your math is wrong, that means you get to create new math.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Thanks, I'm still working on the math I have. Does science do doggy bags?
i choose to believe that every "how dinosaurs ate and hunted" theory is true and they simply shifted with the seasons. take THAT scientists
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I can't wait until we invent time machines and start figuring out how weird dinosaur behavior really was. T-rex all burying its head and filter-feeding on termite mounds. Ankylosaurs all being stealthy and patient arboreal ambush hunters.
We might also note that individuals with a species can have different strategies, especially larger animals
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
"Judging by the fossil record, the goose was a large, clumsy waterfowl that could fly long distances but couldn't take off very quickly. It most likely spent its life avoiding the shores of ponds and lakes for protection from predators, and would have been easy prey for anything that caught it on dry land."
"Judging by the fossil record, the goose was a large, clumsy waterfowl that could fly long distances but couldn't take off very quickly. It most likely spent its life avoiding the shores of ponds and lakes for protection from predators, and would have been easy prey for anything that caught it on dry land."
For geese and swans, specifically, I like this take on a what a shrink-wrapping paleontologist might've made them look like:
(source: All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals)
This mosaic represents a sparkling turning point as we #UnfoldTheUniverse. #NASAWebb’s mirrors are now fully aligned! Next is instrument calibration, the final phase before Webb is ready for science: https://go.nasa.gov/3OJWBD1
This mosaic represents a sparkling turning point as we #UnfoldTheUniverse. #NASAWebb’s mirrors are now fully aligned! Next is instrument calibration, the final phase before Webb is ready for science: https://go.nasa.gov/3OJWBD1
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Or MERLIN and MAGIC and ELF and DRAGN.
Though, let's be honest, most are like the VLA; the Very Large Array.
SHEEPSWARM: HERD MODE
This was a great explainer, but didn't get into the policy ramifications: it could basically double spending on Medicare Part B because of the large overlap of the potential users with Medicare beneficiaries and the high annual cost of the medication, leading to higher premiums for all beneficiaries. It's pretty bonkers!
Nope nope nope.exe.com.
get in there, get to work.
tangentially related, I once read this pulp post-apocalyptic book where this guy was a psychic, but a more powerful psychic burned out the part of his brain where psychic powers live. but it's okay because a snail the size of a skyscraper made a tendril (it had tendrils) microscopic and it went into his brain and fixed his psychic powers.
My first thought was “this looks like the Cavaliers blowing my mind with new drill formations/movements again”
Sheeps bleating probably sound as good as their horn line too
Way to slip that in past the point most people stop reading cause it’s boring
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new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
this could be HUGE
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If it’s scalable to industrial levels then we can finally free ourselves of turbine halls on … well every thermal reactor use… the space savings alone…
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Special condition would be that it needs temperatures in the 2000-2400C range to work. That's well above the melting point of steel for example. Existing RTGs run 1000C on the high end.
Disclaimer: I actually know fuck-all, especially about anything reported specifically within the last day. This is my version of the news from the past two weeks or so on the particle physics front, presented mostly for my own understanding.
So there are building blocks of matter that are smaller than protons, neutrons, and electrons. The thing is, once you get to things that are that tiny, they're held together by forces powerful enough that those things would really, really rather be protons, neutrons, and electrons, than just themselves. So it's hard to detect them individually. Science has chosen to address this by building a giant-ass racetrack for small particles, whipping some of them clockwise and others counter-clockwise until they get lucky and two lumps of matter going in opposite directions smash into each other, and then examine the wreckage before it congeals back into the stuff we already know about.
It turns out that there are a lot of distinct pieces to those protons, neutrons, and electrons, and science keeps finding new ones and using the measurements it takes about the ones it found to guess what the rest of the them are going to look like. Well, there's one particular piece that science has been having trouble finding a copy of, but within the past couple weeks... one showed up! They caught it on camera, weighed it, measured it, all that jazz.
Aaaand... it was smaller than expected. And not just a little smaller than expected; by the measures of how far a thing is outside of expectations, it was really fuckin' smaller than expected. Which means either the tools fucked up and science took a bad measurement, or, if we keep finding ones around this size, a lot of the math we already have is wrong. And with science, when your math is wrong, that means you get to create new math.
tl;dr they probably weren't Mega-Crocs, they were Hell-Herons!
*looks at giant birds vs giant reptiles*
... Can we have the mega-crocs back instead? I feel we'd have a better chance against that in the event of a mad science escapee.
Oh there were actual mega crocs too, don't worry!
Well, obviously worry. Don't worry that you won't have to worry about mega-crocs, is what I mean.
This is all still in flux. There was just a histological study on bone density in a broad range of dinosaurs which suggested Spinosaurus (and Baryonyx, but not Suchomimus) were well adapted to subaqueous foraging.
NB: I have to admit that I kinda think about the fishing in a place that would support Spinosaurids in either capacity.
For geese and swans, specifically, I like this take on a what a shrink-wrapping paleontologist might've made them look like:
(source: All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals)
Big ol' image here.
"The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team’s most optimistic predictions."
A most excellent sentence!
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