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It’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the climate
  • Not likely. The problem is that you can only appeal to them in person. Any appeal made through the internet or the media will miss them completely. They self isolate in the media by only watching networks that confirm their bias against literally any climate activism and online there are algorithms that do it for them. When you do appeal to them in person, they attack you as a Soros-serving, leftist, liberal and declare that everything you tell them is fake news. They won't believe it until it affects them personally and even then they'll try to blame liberals for it while continuing to refuse to take positive action.

  • NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months
  • Maybe more like the drive that Solomon Epstein started with in the novella, The Drive, but with fission instead of fusion. I don't think it would be any good for a manned ice-hauler trip out past the belt though as that would face the same problems that a trip to Mars currently faces.

    On the other hand, if such a drive could get a crewed ship to Mars in two months then it should be able to reach the outer planets in a reasonable time with a much larger payload than we can manage now. We might well be able to send large robotic probes to the moons of Saturn and Jupiter like the ones we've sent to Mars and get there in months instead of years.

  • Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers
  • Yes, what we call the speed of light is really the speed of light in a vacuum. When light passes through a medium like water or glass it travels slower. That causes the light to be refracted which means that it changes direction slightly based on the energy of the light (color) and the refractory index the material. Glass will refract a red laser by a certain amount while water will refract it by a different amount.

    Fun fact, because different colors refract differently, when you shine a white light through a specially shaped piece of glass called a prism, you will see a rainbow pattern.

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  • Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
  • That would be nice. That way if Trump kicks in office we'll have our first female president and she'll be perfect for the GOP. After all, it was their lord and savior, Saint Reagan, who said "Someone once said that politics is the second-oldest profession. I'm beginning to think it bears resemblance to the first." By that metric she is well suited for Republican politics.

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    Teacher arrested, accused of using AI to falsely paint boss as racist and antisemitic
  • "The most pressing problem is not that they’re [AI] going to take our jobs, not that they’re going to change warfare, but that they’re going to destroy human trust. They’re going to move us into a world where you can’t tell truth from falsehood. You don’t know who to trust. Trust turns out to be one of the most important features of civilization, and we are now at great risk of destroying the links of trust that have made civilization possible." - Daniel C. Dennett

    In a few years you will not know what is true or false unless you see it in person with your own eyes. Even video and audio proof are going by the wayside.

  • Corporations profits over you and your children's future.
  • No they wouldn't. Upper management wouldn't know where or if you were buried. They wouldn't even notice you were gone except for the single line item in the accounting ledger showing where the dead-peasant policy payout was entered.

  • A cruel irony
  • When I go to bed I put my pill bottle in one place. When I take the pill in the morning, I put it in a different place. I've considered buying one of those timer bottle caps. They fit generic pill bottles and have timer built into the top. You can look at the timer and see how long it's been since you opened the bottle last.

  • Speeding Seattle officer who struck and killed student will not face charges
  • I have crossed a road at a run to beat an approaching car before, and had I been struck it definitely would've been my fault for not practicing proper safety.

    I'm with you on this, however, the speed of the cop is an issue. At three times the speed limit, an approaching car would reach you much faster than you would expect it too. This girl may have glanced, seen the cop in the distance, and never realized how fast he was going. Frankly, if an emergency responder if taking an action this far outside the norm, they should also be taking great care because innocent bystanders cannot be expected to anticipate the responders actions.

  • The T-🌰00
  • Some pig in Florida emptied his gun into a neighborhood...

    No, its' better than that. He emptied it into his own squad car. And in a real tribute to his training, he never even hit the handcuffed suspect he had inside the squad car.

    "I'm hit! I'm hit!"

  • Give cheese
  • Damn straight. If you go to Wisconsin and try to pass off any of that Kraft, individually-wrapped, processed cheese product as actual cheese, you may just get your ass kicked. It'd be like trying to pass off the piss they drink in Wisconsin as beer to a German.

  • Missing Michigan toddler found in the woods asleep on family dog
  • I don't think she was playing alone in the yard. The uncle was there and told her to go inside and she ignored him. As for coyotes, with a rottie and springer in the yard, no coyote would be an issue.

    However, if you tell the kid to go inside by their mom, tell the mom that you did so. Uncle was a dumb shit. You can't count on a three year old to do as they're told.

  • Boebert escorted out of Denver theater during performance: report
  • You missed where it says they were recording and singing too. If you pay to go see a musical, your don't want some no-talent bint in the seat behind you screeching along with the songs. In addition, you don't want an ignoramus in front of you holding up their phone to record it for their social media page. Plus, they were warned multiple times and kept it up.

  • Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations
  • So how did this go down anyway? First, I heard that Musk deactivated his already active satellites in the region and thus disrupted the attack. This article suggests that the satellites were not active in the region and Musk simply refused to activate them.

    Which is true because those are very different scenarios. In one, he used his authority to disrupt one government's actions against another, thereby taking sides in the conflict. In the other, he refused to take an action that would help one side against the other, thereby refusing to take sides.

    Knowing what I know of Musk, I'm currently assuming he is a Russian asset and helped them, but I'd like to know for sure.

  • Hubble detects several dozen boulders have broken off of DART mission target asteroid

    The DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft impact on asteroid Dimorphos happened on September 26, 2022. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope continue following the aftermath of the cosmic collision. A surprise is the discovery of several dozen boulders lifted off the asteroid after the smashup. In Hubble pictures they look like a swarm of bees very slowly moving away from the asteroid. This might mean that smacking an Earth-approaching asteroid might result in a cluster of threatening boulders heading in our direction.

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