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The fact that the habitat is unfragmented means the virus can more easily spread through the entire population, and not just to more penguins, but to anything else that lives there, given it is affecting mammals too.

You're minimizing this news based on percentages killed so far, when the virus has just arrived and now has unfettered access to those aforementioned 10 million individuals.

It's a mass mortality event because it's infectious, has killed thousands already on Heroína Island and isn't over yet...

I know it's uncool to ask if a commenter has read the article, but...

ChrisGrangeron Ask HN: Smoking Object in the Sky?

Blue Origin has a launch facility near Van Horn, Texas, that was operating before 2022, but I don't know if what you saw was one of their rockets.

ChrisGrangeron Bird flu virus outlasted pasteurization, study finds

Broken link. The correct URL is:

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/17/bird-flu-milk-pasteurizatio...

ChrisGrangeron TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough

When I commented, the URL was a link to the press release. It was changed to the Ars Technica article later.

Good to know.

ChrisGrangeron TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough

I wonder if this scales up, to batteries much larger than a coin cell replacement.

ChrisGrangeron Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on a programming shirt?

body { display: none !important; }

ChrisGrangeron Dark fibre

>I'm not sure why this Wikipedia link was submitted without question/comment...

This is one of my pet peeves. I wish OP (in general) would comment as to why they're posting, what they found interesting. I don't flag these posts, but they do sometimes feel like a lazy karma-grab.

ChrisGrangeron Avogrado Constant

Misspelled title, Avogadro.

ChrisGrangeron Lite.cnn.com