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Comment Wow! (Score 4, Informative) 20

Most stony meteorites are chondrites, and their formation ages cluster around 4.56 to 4.57 billion years, so they predate Earth at 4.54 billion years.
Estimates of total meteorites that reach the ground at sizes you could pick up, roughly >10 g, are around 18,000 per year worldwide, and about 85 to 90 percent of those are chondrites, giving roughly 15,000 older than Earth.
Nearly all fall into oceans or remote land, which is why we only recover a few dozen each year. So the best guess is on the order of 10,000 to 20,000 per year, with a midpoint near 15,000.

So IOW, news for nerds, stuff that matters.

Comment About time (Score 1) 59

If they really insist on 200 questions per WEEK for 5.0, it's useless to me.
I need more in an afternoon.

Research for me.....
1. Answer
Try again without em-dashes, oval buttons I cannot copy/paste into my notes and we are August 2025 if you check
2. Answer
I said WITHOUT em-dashes and you also innored my memory file insisting on NO bullets and numbering
3. Answer
Check your links againa, they return 'page not found'
4. Answer
I told you NO SUBTITLES, check the goddamn memory file!
5. Answer

That's my average, 5 tries to get a useful answer.

Comment I expect... (Score 1) 142

...soon tries to patent idiosyncratic cadence or unconventional prosody.

In f.ex. Christopher Walken’s case, it's marked by irregular pauses, offbeat emphasis, and unexpected rhythms.

Linguists might call it non-standard intonation or atypical stress patterns.

It’s not technically staccato, but it creates a choppy, almost musical effect.
Sometimes it's also referred to informally as a distinctive speech pattern or signature delivery.

I'll BET the Mafia will try.

Comment Re:No... (Score 1) 142

"And while cloning a person's natural voice and mannerisms is surely wrong if used to impersonate a live person would surely be wrong. The same is not true for character voices."

Exactly! In lot of cases, the real voice of actors don't fulfill the expectations when looking at his or her stature.

AI can make them sound like they actually LOOK, making it a better experience.

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