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Yes I agree, from the object's frame of reference no time passes.

I looked up after your reply, they decay by losing energy based on the matter they interact with. So in the vacuum of space they can travel great distances as long as they don't interact with the matter.

Source: https://cosmic.lbl.gov/SKliewer/Cosmic_Rays/Muons.htm

Genuinely curious as to why you think they haven't aged a single day. Doesn't it depend on the point of reference? Earth is 500 light seconds from the Sun. So any photon hitting the eye is at least 500 seconds old. Hypothetically speaking, if a human were to be born on the Sun's surface and reach earth at the speed of light, he/she is at least 500 seconds old on Earth's clock?

Convenient perhaps, but the engineer in me doesn't want to accept that. Light is the fastest thing in the universe and it takes 642 years to reach us from this particular star. So we are lagging by 642 years. Those are the facts.

May be it's gone supernova already.

I recently went as far as setting up Bigtop on a VM to build the Deb packages, I gave up after 2 days. I would rather suffer through 2 root canal procedures back to back without anesthesia.

In this documentary he had said "I think it is possible" after failing to break the 2 hours. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPeK39lNp8

3 months in and the touch bar stopped working, it just doesn't light up. It's a work laptop so it is going for a replacement, backing up my data as I type this.

Also, some keys double type :( Perfect my ass.

PS: I know you are being sarcastic

So if I am understanding this correctly, lower threshold (in terms of mass) for a star to become a black hole is lower than what was earlier thought?

Agreed, we should have a more pragmatic approach while staying invested in Thorium reactor research.

Valid point. For the same generating capacity, water consumption should be similar assuming same location. But a nuclear power plant has different site selection criteria than other plants.

If only we can get an efficient & cost effective Thorium reactor working, most of the coal plants can be shutdown much sooner. Going by publicly available data, we are no where near a working prototype.

India has an ambitious goal of generating 175GW from renewable sources by 2022. There are various solar power plants coming up all over the country.

Source: https://www.niti.gov.in/reports [Line item 6]

PS: NITI is the apex advisory body to the Indian Govt.

Sweet, this is more elegant, thank you.

This is such a nice tool. Here is handy one liner I use it all the time.

parallel -a input_file_here -j16 --gnu 'ssh -q {} "echo 'Matrix has you'"'

Please do.

If you are visiting Bangalore, the Karnataka state(of which Bangalore is the capital) has second largest number of tigers in the country, and there are multiple tiger reserves within 100-150 Mile radius of the city. I highly recommend visiting at least one of them, the forest staff are quite friendly and you can get first hand information on how they deal with poachers etc.

This is the Govt. website so please be gentle :)

https://aranya.gov.in/Static%20pages/TigerReserves.aspx

Bandipur, Nagarhole & BRT reserves are 3-4 hours drive from Bangalore.

PS: Avoid the weekends if possible.

I had accompanied a wildlife photographer friend of mine along with a forest guard. There was a large crevice separating us and the den.

Prior permission is required from the authorities and they are very strict about handing them out and also they come with lot of restrictions, like the permit is restricted to a single zone of the forest and your entry/exit times are pre-defined and logged.

Good find. I was looking for this article on STR (Sariska). It's indeed unfortunate what had happened in Sariska, but I am glad corrective measures were taken.

Tigers unlike Lions are solitary animals, so these numbers are impressive +/- 10%. My home state has one of the largest numbers and I was fortunate to see a Tigress with fresh kill and couple of cubs. Truly majestic beasts these are.

question is, why should anyone do it after having paid truck load of money for a supposedly a cutting edge laptop.

Behind the scenes video of the mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGaxR9yrUQY

I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.

We humans are too hypocritical to let that happen, we conserve other species only as long as they remain submissive. The moment we feel threatened by them (think giant squids sinking ships) we start killing them off.

What about them?

Agreed, so is "apk" from Alpine Linux.

I wonder if we should show them how to write software?

Mission will be ready for launch in ~2 months time, how is this a PR move? Did you even read the article?

What,exactly, are you on about?

Hence the realistic goal of 40% by 2026, that should be enough to setup the charging infrastructure and also to be able to complete the power plants (nuclear,solar, hydro) under construction.

This. FWIW, I have mapped some perma nent functions (brightness,volume etc) to the touchbar (you can do that from the preferences), so it doesn't keep changing based on the application in focus. This is a work laptop so I am stuck :(