sandworm101

Small error. In the 1960s TALENT and KEYHOLE were different things. TALENT was data from the U2 programs, KEYHOLE was satellites. The "TALENT-KEYHOLE" name today is a generalized classification ("TK") but in the 60s they were distinct programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform...

Otherwise known as "that thing beside Danny DeVitos' bed in the movie OtherPeoplesMoney... i want one of those!"

The lifespan numbers are lies. I have personal knowledge of deep cycle lead batteries lasting 10+ years, thousands of cycles. Many websites actually cite numbers for sealed batteries as used in cars. "Flooded" batteries last longer than sealed because they can be inspected and maintained. There are also "deep cycle" and "marine" units which are also different than car batteries and can be discharged more.

https://offgridsolarguide.com/lead-acid-battery-brands-for-o...

Canadians are fixing this. They are allowed to smoke pot in Canada. But then they get US clearances to work with US forces (ie NORAD). So the US clearance people are tolerating it. Change has to start somewhere.

Not in homes. Density is a huge issue for commercial installations. The off-grid community also values user-repairabilty and avoiding vendor lock-in. Good luck replacing a dead cell in a tesla pack.

From thier website: "The BWRX-300 power block is small enough to fit within two international football pitches."

And after some digging, the core alone is 4.2m INNER diameter and over 27m tall. That is smaller than average but this is a far cry from the sales pitch of reactor modules being mass produced in a factory to be delivered to site by truck.

https://www.gevernova.com/content/dam/gevernova-nuclear/glob...

Lithium is not the way to go for home batteries. As size/weight are not an issue for a basement or shed install, oldschool lead-acid are much cheaper and can be easily recycled once at end of life.

Those tesla wall packs will be a massive headache when they give up the ghost. Read the contract carefully. Who is responsable for end-of-life disposal? Where/how are they to be disposed of? Lead acids can be taken to any number of recycling centers, some will even pay you for them.

The dalton is a low risk road spread along a great distance. For real terror, a few dangerous miles of road require an Army to navigate safely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Pass_(British_Columbia)

>> to keep the highway and railway open during the winter, the Royal Canadian Artillery has since used 105-millimetre (4.1 in) howitzers to knock down unstable snow under controlled circumstances to reduce avalanche hazards. Stopping is prohibited in high-risk locations.

>> The only real place people are still "expected" to drink is the army (cos there is nothing else to do)

No. The correct answer was Navy. Those in the navy drink like fish. And the air force use only redbull.

"Only about 5% to 10% of all cancer cases are hereditary, meaning they are caused by an inherited gene mutation."

https://cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/reduce-your-risk/che...

No. This is 5-10% are from inherited genetic issues, not environment. And that is the canadian cancer society saying so, not a random website or drug company. 5-10% is a monumental number of cancers. If someone came out with a drug to reduce cancers across the board by 5-10% there would be talk at the Nobel commitee.

There is an easy line to draw between the two. "Family history", which includes eating/smoking/drinking habits, follows habitation. Genetics follows blood. So differences between bloodlines easily stand apart from family trends.

And gentics. Some people/families are just more prone to cancer than others.

A long while ago i read about this and a link to wealth. Of those families with know genetic problems, the poor ones seems to have actively dealt with the issue internally after realizing the problem. They adopt, have fewer children, or use surrogacy. They cannot afford sickly kids. But wealthy families did not, the best examples being those royal families with known problems.

Personally, my cancer risks went way up when my heavy-smoker uncle died of throat cancer. Going from zero cancer in related family to "some" moved me up the charts.

I just bought the Steam Frame, valve's new VR headset. After hunting for a USB port on the paddles i was shocked to find how eaily it is to replace thier batteries. They are Duracell AA.

Tankers for oil. Lng ships for gas. And for electricity, that comes in the form of high-energy base products like fertilizer and metal ingots. Aluminum is sometimes called "solid electricity" because while the raw material is extreemly common/cheap the energy needed to smelt it is not.

Uranium is energy-dense enough that it could come by private jet and still be cheap.

The best motorcycle sunglasses i every bought were mec, from the vancouver store in around 2005. Flat sided (for helmets) with interchangable lenses, and seriously dark lenses too. But when I walked in, in full sportbike leathers, i got more than a few dirty looks.

Talk about burying the lead. This was a MEC bike light. It should have a replacable battery!

https://www.mec.ca/en/explore/sustainability-innovation

Well, canada is knocking at the door. They have energy to spare, from sunlight to uranium.

But space age is now the focus of development.

The system for moving between planets is locked down. It is rockets or nothing. And that system is deliberately designed to defeat scaling. What really killed me was the message saying I was only allowed one of a specific key building on each planet. That was very anti-factorio imho. As I said above, as an indi developer moves forwards they add constraints to focus and guide progression. I simply do not want that. So I disabled all the planet stuff and play like it never existed.

What you want is realtime accelerometer records from satellites in flight, exposing their drag factors over specific parts of the planet. The only tricky variable would be their orientation, but that is certainly recorded too.

Something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOCE

Yes but they have fallen into a success trap. I have seen the same trend with Mincraft, KSP and Subnautica. An indi developer starts with a great concept and a true open world game. The player can progress through the tech tree how they choose but doing so requires exploration. All is good. Then the developer starts to tighten the reigns. The tech tree become more rigid. Exploration must happen in a more specific order. And then the graphics department takes over, adding more and more objects until a previously huge and open world is a tightly cluttered mess.

Think of how subnautica moved. The second game was very literally denser to the point that they slowed down movement to preserve any sense of space. And each step inthe tech tree required specific tools from a specific place. No more free explorations. No more alternatives. The player lost control over the story. Subnautica 3 is now so dense and linear I gave up after a week. It is more a decorated fishtank than open world.

I still play factorio (1000x) but I do not play the new planets. That whole rocket process is so locked down that there is little for me to enjoy. I get bored whenever there is only one way to do a thing and no room for a player to invent alternatives.

The author seems to treat the atmosphere as a, well, sphere. It isnt. It is not of equal depth at all areas. As starlink (and every other sat) only travels in part of the atmosphere each day they cannot measure the entire atmosphere. So you measure a thousand starlinks to get an average. Ok, but a significant bulge on one side of the planet will slow all sats, giving the false impression of a homegenous trend. So you have to track very specific sats in very specific survey orbits... but also update that list as the orbital shell rotates around the earth. It is a very complex problem.

The slope of addictive drugs with negative side effects starts with alcohol, then comes nicotine, pot, cocaine, crack, fentinal .... and then all the really exotic modern stuff. It is a spectrum. Some argue that there are upsides, and there are certainly uses for all these drugs, but no sane doctor would say they have no downsides, that unrestrained use is ever a good thing.

More than simply being alive, they want customers who can stay employed and so continue to pay higher prices over a greater number of years. Cocaine and pot are horrible but their users can maintain a working life for years or decades, making them more profitable drugs in the long term.

At least you have a charger option. The non-rich of us who rent appartments have none. The four chargers in my biulding would cost more per-mile than buying gas... if they were working. They are currently down for some random reason (new cell provider, no connectivity in our carpark.)

I just watched a youtube about cruise ships. A near-riot broke out during a movie quote quiz because the AI that made the questions confused Casablanca and Gone With The Wind. If it aint ready for quiz night, it aint ready to teach kids.

The week default is having an OS owned/run/managed/backdoored by a publicly traded company. If you are using anything other than open source, anything other than linux, consider all your communications to be availible for subpeona or outright sale to whoever wants them. Signal is great, but only as good as the OS of its host.

Another option is height. Put them high enough and getting at the copper is too difficult. Streetlights rarely have their wires ripped out.

It probably has more to do with consumer fridges being a bang-bang controller situation where temperature will always fluctuate several degrees either side of the desired number.

The fridge compressor answers to software? Idiocy. It need be nothing more than a relay attached to a thermocouple. I can see having a smart screen to deliver aps/ads and to collect data on people in the home, but why on earth would that need to actually manipulate temperatures?