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Comment Space probes also (Score 1) 24

This is how NASA powers some space-probes. Further from the sun, solar panels often can't do the job such that RTG's are used. But currently there's a shortage of P238 because the USA changed the way it processes nuclear material, and thus doesn't have it as a by-product like we used to. It now has to be explicitly manufactured, requiring expensive setups. We used to buy it from Russia for a while, but since the war that's part of the sanctions.

Comment Climate change shows how humans (Score 1) 118

...will deal with any real AGI threat: delay, deflect*, ignore, and blame.

In short, if AGI is possible, humanity is bigly hosed. Nice knowing you all, cheers to all the great trollin' and dupes...

* "But China & India pollute more" is a stupid GOP position. For one, it's 2-wrongs-make-a-right, and second, their pollution per person is actually LOWER than ours. It's penalizing population, not pollution itself.

Comment Re:Robot vacuum cleaners - meh (Score 2) 66

Watts aren't the key to good cleaning. Japanese brands make 300W cleaners that do a better job than 3000W European ones.

You need something to lift the dust off the surface and into the air stream. Basic vacs have little brushes, but you really want moving ones that sweep and beat, lifting dust away from the surface.

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