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apeterssonon Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

Because we're juuust about to become an interstellar species, right? Right?

apeterssonon A buried ancient Egyptian port reveals connections between distant civilizations

Humidity

apeterssonon Poincaré Recurrence Theorem

Doesn't that only happen in certain dimensionality < 3 ? See also random walks in higher dimensions

apeterssonon Harvesting electricity from high-voltage transmission lines using fences

I suppose not. If my neighbour has a water sprinkler, it's not theft if I put a tree where it spills on my property. It's rather debatable if the strong electric fields are a disturbance to the environment and the power company should be obligated to insulate better, potentially leading to higher transmission efficiency.

apeterssonon International Obfuscated Python Code Competition: Submissions Open

_ = (lambda _, __, ___: (lambda _, __, ___, ____: {_[___](____)[_(__)](_(___, ____)) for ___ in _}[_](__, _(___, __))) ( (lambda _: _ % 2 and _ // 2 or _ * 5 + 1), (lambda _: _ << 1), 2, 1 ) )[(lambda _, __: _ << __), 5, 2]

Guess what that is doing