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seems like a giant decoy could keep away a lot of predators?
Nobody wants to see 132 taxidermied squirrels Voltron their way to a human body!
Actually, I take that back. I sure want to see that.
https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/melia-extraordinary-birth
I just read about the Nac Mac Feagle doing that with my daughter the other day in a Tiffany Aching discworld book!
The what now
You should definitely get your daughter away from the Nac Mac Feagle. It is not safe for her to run around with them even if she is in a discworld book somehow.
I’m sure your daughter had fun building an effigy with them though.
Nah, they teach good life lessons and if she plays her cards right she could end up as temporary Kelda
Nae Kings, nae Queens, nae Lairds.
If we all internalised that mantra we'd be in a better place.
Famous for taking the photo known as 'The Blue Marble', it was the longest Apollo mission, with the most/longest lunar EVAs and most time spent on/at the moon.
If you're the kind of person like me who enjoys doing such things, this is also one of the missions you can follow in real time at https://apolloinrealtime.org/17/ . You can keep it open in the corner of a monitor somewhere and just stream an entire mission to your screen for a week or so. I've had it open for a couple days, because I find it nifty and educational - my kids loved following Apollo 13 in real time during the lockdown, which was good, because we really needed a bit of an event to stir up lockdown.
Anyway, I thought I'd mention it.
Well that seems big
They tend to be exaggerated and sensationalist and they've been having news stories breathlessly declare stuff like that for 30 years.
There is a vast gulf between "we think we saw positive net power in a test run" and "fusion reactors are a practical commercial power source," for another thing.
that I can fuck
Understandable but the preliminary in the body itself seems promising: supposedly a net gain of .4 megajoules
Like it’s not going to be powering much anytime soon (especially when you consider it took 2.1 megajoules to initiate the reaction) but, assuming the final analysis verifies that, even at this small amount this would be the first time we got more energy out than put in period, right?
We’re still talking baby steps in the end but it’s still a big one given where we were before
god fusion is SO MUCH harder than fission
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State of the art self-driving for minimal carring.
This is pretty damn cool!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html
Yeah, so, with the Energy Secretary weighing in on this ...
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but for us to get anywhere close to "hey this could really do something" a fusion reactor would have to make much closer to double what it takes to produce the reaction in the first place...
this is 20% more... at a very "small" scale.... using bleeding edge equipment and bazillions of years of global scientific manpower
still a long road ahead, but the fact that it's even possible is a good sign
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Yeah we need to understand it’s still baby steps, but that baby steps are still a pretty good progress from where we’ve been.
It might open more funding or it might not. Not commercially feasible yet by a long shot. At this stage they are still struggling with breaking even on energy at a small scale, let alone scaling that up in size and output thousands of times, running a reactor for an extended period of time, and running one at all without expensive constant maintenance. And it needs to make enough energy to pay for all the expensive setup and maintenance costs and still have enough left over to compete with oil and solar and etc. on profitability.
It sounds like this was an experiment with the "shoot pellets into each other with particle accelerators and compress the explosion with lasers" style reactor, neat that they actually got that to work. I remember going to a lecture at a public library about that concept in the mid 00s when they were still looking for funding to try to build one.
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we've decided to go with the omelas model fusion reactor
The proactors keep leaving for Hollywood
I know it'd be good but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with saying it'd be the bomb, you know?