Comment BBT (Score 1) 73

by mennucc1 on Monday August 26, 2024 @07:53AM (#64735512) Attached to: A Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality

Wasn't this already invented in the tenth season of The Big Bang Theory.? (just joking)

Comment naysay (Score 2) 81

by mennucc1 on Friday August 09, 2024 @03:59AM (#64692072) Attached to: String of Record Hot Months Came To an End In July

wow ... 0.04 cooler... that's serious material for climate deniers..

Comment release link (Score 1) 34

by mennucc1 on Friday April 26, 2024 @05:46AM (#64426630) Attached to: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released

I would say that https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fubuntu.com%2Fblog%2Fcanoni... is a better link for "release"

Comment PV-GIS (Score 2) 9

by mennucc1 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:03AM (#63805760) Attached to: Google To Begin Selling Maps Data To Companies Building Solar Products

In Europe there is a free service, full of nifty options https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fre.jrc.ec.europa.eu%2Fpv... It can optimize for angles (azimuth, slope); it also accounts for obstruction from nearby hills and mountains.

Comment 1 : 4 : 9 (Score 2) 46

by mennucc1 on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:26AM (#63689889) Attached to: Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moon's Far Side

Was this spot 1 : 4 : 9 as ratio of dimensions?

Comment apple MacBook , aluminium, 2008 (Score 1) 288

by mennucc1 on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:27AM (#63421814) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?

mine oldest but still valide is an Apple notebook, aluminium, Intel 2008. Long ago I maxed the RAM , put SSD in it, and I switched to Ubuntu ; I changed batteries twice (with chinese replacements... Apple won't sell me anything) but they do not work well; so currently it is mostly a desktop machine, used by my chilldren for homework, web browsing, social networks, casual gaming.

Comment typo (Score 1) 199

by mennucc1 on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:42AM (#63288693) Attached to: Electric Vehicles Could Match Gas-Powered Cars on Price This Year

the referenced URL points to the Seattle Times, but the text cites it as "New York Times"

Comment more complete (Score 1) 81

by mennucc1 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:50AM (#63065327) Attached to: Earth Now Weighs Six Ronnagrams: New Metric Prefixes Voted In

I would recommend https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npl.co.uk%2Fsi-prefi... that is more complete

Comment Re:Too many Olympic swimming pools to count? (Score 3, Insightful) 82

by mennucc1 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:17AM (#62897239) Attached to: Earth Has 20 Quadrillion Ants, Study Says

74 quadrillion millimeters.

Average ant length = 3.7mm https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmisfitanimals.com%2Fants... (for whatever that source is worth)

a.k.a. 74 billion kilometers; to put in perspective: that's many times the distance Sun-Pluto (about 6 billion km) ; or (as of April 2020) Voyager 1 was at a distance of 22.3 billion kilometers from the Sun.

Comment Re:wave break that generates power (Score 1) 85

by mennucc1 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:05AM (#62755040) Attached to: Blowhole Wave Energy Generator Exceeds Expectations In 12-Month Test

you also miscalculated, it takes 30 THOUSAND of those to produce 6GW

Comment Re:Narrow focus (Score 2) 283

by mennucc1 on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:06AM (#61871625) Attached to: Intel Not Considering UK Chip Factory After Brexit

Seconded. And let us all remember Farage admitting on its own lies, just a few hours after the vote, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Comment Re:do they even know what "approved" means? (Score 1) 549

by mennucc1 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:56PM (#61848225) Attached to: YouTube Will Remove Videos With Misinformation About Any Vaccine

you have a broken link, the correct one should be https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.contagionlive.com%2F... there is an extra - at the end

Comment phone calls? (Score 1) 63

by mennucc1 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:42PM (#61775849) Attached to: The Gmail App Takes Calls Now, Too, Because Google Wants It To Do Everything

by reading the headline, I was hoping that gmail would answer the cell phone on my behalf, and filter out the robocall spam ...

Comment Re:Hubble version 2.0 (Score 1) 84

by mennucc1 on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:44AM (#61519356) Attached to: NASA Can't Figure Out What's Causing Computer Issues On The Telescope

Why wouldn't they launch a new telescope? I mean this one has done it's job and I'm sure is way past planned life.

As a matter of fact, yes , they are soon going to launch a new telescope https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment delta (Score 1) 68

by mennucc1 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:00AM (#61195610) Attached to: Astronomer Makes Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel

Does it work in the delta quadrant as well? Just in case...

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