Awesome! Thanks, Dude! Keep us posted!
Do let us know when we can donate as well. While I appreciate your continued generosity, I would feel more confident in the long-term future of the server if the financial costs were decentralized a bit. It would be nice to know that the future costs are covered for the next x months/years.
Once we’re at the technological level of mining asteroids, I think food supply and radiation shielding will be comparatively small challenges. Food can be grown wherever there is sunlight, and radiation can be mitigated by placing sufficient matter on the exterior of the habitats.
Seems like nothing that rotating habitats with appropriate shielding couldn’t solve.
Interesting! Replacing someone’s entire brain at once would obviously kill “them”, but I can see the possibility that replacing a bit at a time would allow for a continuous stream of consciousness, Ship of Theseus style.
Nice, more batteries! “The factory must grow” :)
He cured a genetic disease
No, he (hoped to) increase their resistance to HIV.
only unethical to experiment on babies if they dont legally consent
So, always unethical, then.
Super excited to see the results of this trial. It seems so unfair that sharks get unlimited teeth, while us humans are limited to a mere two sets.
Not too surprising. Human memory (and thus eyewitness testimony) is notoriously unreliable.
Even with a long timeline, it seems a bit early for asteroid mining. Until in-space manufacturing gets going, it would likely be profitable for only a few platinum-group elements, and even then I’m not sure.
2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz
So is that 2 Petahertz?
their solution of having all Teslas drive to Tesla’s chargers is just keeping people dependent on “going to the gas station”
Don’t most people charge at home already? I feel like Supercharger stations are mostly used for road trips, or the small subset of people who cannot charge where they park.
I agree that going to a charging station to “fill up” is the wrong mentality, but I thought we had mostly moved away from that already.
they don’t have enough energy density
Oil has the same energy density no matter the source, doesn’t it? I think the bigger challenge will be producing SAF in the required quantities while maintaining a lower ecological footprint then mined oils.
The proposed mechanism of action:
Turns out that DdrC scans for breaks along the DNA and when it detects one it snaps shut—like a mousetrap. This trapping action has two key functions. He explains, “It neutralizes it (the DNA damage), and prevents the break from getting damaged further. And it acts like a little molecular beacon. It tells the cell ‘Hey, over here. There’s damage. Come fix it.’”
Interesting stuff.
TL;DR: It failed to launch because it was delayed for a few reasons.
But just two months later, Hoke started expressing doubts in German media. After being rejected for a state loan, the company was facing the prospect of insolvency “in the foreseeable future” if its shareholders would not agree to more financing, he told the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
By late July, it was clear that Volocopter’s plans for the Paris Olympics were being scaled back, even as the company claimed its immediate money problems had been solved. “It’s a technological advance that could be of use,” transport minister Patrice Vergriete insisted, acknowledging the flying taxis might not be able to welcome any passengers in time for the Olympics. Publicly, Volocopter was careful not to credit the public backlash with the setback, instead blaming an American supplier for “not [being] able to provide what it had promised,” as well as its failure to win approval from the EU Aviation Safety Authority to operate commercially.
Sounds like the project isn’t abandoned though. Flying cars are still a bit impractical at the moment, but they are quite futuristic and sci-fi, and the technology is improving.
Lemmy is currently expecting pict-rs 0.5.something which should already have the feature mentioned.
That’s awesome! Any idea what the tentative timeline is, or links to where we can track the progress towards rollout?
@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works and @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
Tagging a couple admins for their thoughts. Is this feasible?
No, gain of function research did not cause COVID-19
I find it a bit ridiculous that this “debate” is still ongoing, since the evidence is pretty clear. That’s not to say that a future virus couldn’t be engineered, but SARS-COV-2 was not.