Comment Re:In case anyone else was wondering... (Score 1) 58
But then if you let the CO2 out of the system and into the atmosphere, you are defeating the purpose of capturing it in the first place.
You don't. The CO2 is reused.
But then if you let the CO2 out of the system and into the atmosphere, you are defeating the purpose of capturing it in the first place.
You don't. The CO2 is reused.
I agree with your approach,
If you think theater is a 'sacred space' perhaps you should get on theater management about that. Outside of some very atypical or heavily stage-managed cases the movie theatre experience is typically fucking dire. Paid admittance to a half hour of commercials; seats packed to remind your knees that they are trying to maximize the headcount per square foot(see also, seats in blatantly undesirable positions relative to the screen);
When was the last time you went to a movie theater? The one thing I find most notable about 2025 compared to the previous century is that the previous cheap fold-down seats in movie theaters have been replaced by wide, comfortable seats with plenty of legroom. In most of the theaters built recently the seats recline as well.
For the most part, you also choose your seat when you buy your ticket online, so if the only seats available are in undesirable positions relative to the screen, go to a different show.
It depends on your skills level. For trivial beginner stuff, it's OK but then again.
For anything out of mainstream which no or very few examples are available for the model to train, it's pretty much useless.
Dude once the report was made you didn't need flock to track them regular police work could easily do that.
The key thing that somebody reported was a suspicious gray Nissan. Once they zeroed in on looking for a grey Nissan at the crime scene, they looked at the surveillance cameras, found one that had in the right place at the right time, and used the Flock cameras and license plate readers to discover it was also present in Brookline at the MIT professor's shooting, then used the Flock cameras to follow it to the storage facility.
Maybe "regular police work" could have followed it through the change of license plates to a facility two states away, but maybe not. You do know not all crimes are solved.
"10 million times larger than the sun," : Even though Space.com was quoted, it's a poor choice of words, since neither mass nor diameter is specified.
Here, in the Slashdot article, the black hole isn't identified by name. Poor writing - reads like hype.
Capitalization: "sun" should be "Sun".
Indeed, look at the size of the legs an elephant needs to support its mass so twice the diameter is much more than twice the mass, given the same density of course. It could even be 10 million times the diameter of the sun and only half the mass with different densities although I'd expect a black hole to have a higher density than the Sun.
You are thinking Newtonian physics too much. For one, speed of light isn't relative in the sense you seem to refer to.
Thank you for that. I wish I had mod points.
Even if you had mod points, you couldn't have modded him up since you had already posted before he replied to you.
This is one of those weird quasi-government nonprofit agencies that could easily be absorbed by an actual government organization, and probably be run a lot more efficiently in the process.
I'm not sure why you think that. America does have this political belief that the government shouldn't be doing research, but should instead fund outside entities to do so, in the belief that outside entities are more efficiently run. NCAR, of course, reports to the National Science Foundation, why do you think it would somehow be different or run "more efficiently" if it were "absorbed" by the NSF?
Even if that is not the goal of this move (and there probably are other motives for doing it), the default reaction to this should not be panic and outrage, but rather ask how these shady arrangements came about in the first place.
What in the world do you find "shady" about it?
There is almost no accountability at these places, and their budgets are black holes by design.
What in the world are you talking about? There are many government agencies for which the budget has no accountability-- when the military misplaces a billion dollars, their response is "Well, it hard to keep track of everything," but the NCAR budget is public and completely transparent.
Interesting link, thanks!
The war against using the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" was lost years ago. Even the dictionaries have conceded, although I'm amused that the definition 2 in the web Merriam-webster actually uses the word "literally" to mean "literally" in the text of the definition of "literally" meaning "not literally."
2 informal : in effect : VIRTUALLY —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible
I literally died of embarrassment.
" will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice."—Norman Cousins
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.co...
They could use OVH which is from France.
When people are starving, it is the calorie value that is the problem.
It was meddling by both D and R in our economy, both were scared of invisible boogiemen of "something bad might happen".
Fear is a great motivator. Courage is standing in the face of danger understanding the risks might be worse doing nothing than doing something. This is a calculated risk and ought to be rewarded in the marketplace if it is correct.
Conglomerates are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. The good is they offer efficiencies in the marketplace. The bad is they take advantage of those efficiencies and often get "too big to fail" (a lie).
People guessing who have no stake in the market are making bad choices, because of other reasons. Both D and R do this. I call it the "There ought to be a law" reactions. Nobody stops long enough to say "no there shouldn't be".
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad