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New comment by CyanBird in "Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows"

CyanBird — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:04:37 +0000

The blades could easily be cut and used as modern "sleek" housing, or games for kids in parks

There is market for that I feel

New comment by CyanBird in "Study suggests a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form"

CyanBird — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:51:23 +0000

Same in actual cosmology, it is called the holographic principle. The concept is that 3D bodies can be losslessly represented on a distant 2D plane which envelops them or alongside the spherical perimeter of a black hole if they are squished to it

It is not all that applicable, but it is interesting to think about and there are people studying it

New comment by CyanBird in "Owning SpaceX's Starship Rockets Could Be in Department of Defense's Future"

CyanBird — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:52:49 +0000

Interesting future the one mentioned where the US military could use SpaceX starships to do isle hopping on the pacific in not a dissimilar way that they did during wwii

If there is any military that could do it it might be the US military

I am interested on the logistics of fuel procurement tho, the fact that starship uses liquefied natural gas and oxygen makes for a great mix and rather simple to procure vs other rocket fuels

New comment by CyanBird in "YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled"

CyanBird — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 05:48:58 +0000

Sucks that YouTube music is not integrated enough to YouTube proper, the discovery systems between both are also just bad

New comment by CyanBird in "Jodorowsky's Dune – Official Trailer HD (2014)"

CyanBird — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:18:48 +0000

Parts of it yeah

There are some Google drive links with compiled art of the movie

2 years ago or so there was a push by an nft group with fair amount of money to purchase a copy of the dune storybook by jodo that they released to studios....

But it was not meant to be, you might be able to read of it on the web

New comment by CyanBird in "iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail"

CyanBird — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:15:55 +0000

Likely because the aim is to find the actual owner of the phone?

New comment by CyanBird in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

CyanBird — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:56:34 +0000

> we have got laws

Of which as mentioned previously by Miraste/flight 261 regarding Alaska were not implemented clearly and cleanly given that the person who raised the alarm of ghr situation was fired and the situation continued onwards

Right now regarding boeing there are also boeing whistleblowers in new NGOs set up to police boeing malpractice... If only laws work and this weren't necessary, as boeing also has bribed faa staff to achieve their own objectives risking public safety

New comment by CyanBird in "The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining"

CyanBird — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:47:16 +0000

And the counter argument to the "amount of area '' not being big ''" is that the zones that will be mined are precisely the richest in ecological interactions and less understood ones, they are the zones with underwater volcanic chimneys

If someone came and said that they want to drag mine/open pit mine the Yellowstone geysers bc of how rich they are with minerals and said as an argument "hey it is just a small part of the park!" I don't believe that many people would be inclined to accept that "argument"....

New comment by CyanBird in "The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining"

CyanBird — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:42:23 +0000

I still find this whole thing absolutely idiotic given that there are absolutely colossal piles of cobalt, manganese etc left on the tailings of copper and silver mines through the world just waiting for being collected and processed... And you don't need to build specialty equipment to reach the seabed at all

New comment by CyanBird in "EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram"

CyanBird — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:00:37 +0000

Op said "sent a message to a friend", it made no reference to facebook

Gmail famously scans the user emails to sell the info to third parties and sell adds

Ought be noted that while WhatsApp to my knowledgeable doesn't carry such a clause. It would be idiotic beyond belief to be led to believe that Facebook doesn't do the exact same thing

New comment by CyanBird in "Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node"

CyanBird — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 04:33:34 +0000

...

We'll figure it out in ten years or so after the eventual leaks happen

New comment by CyanBird in "Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST"

CyanBird — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:40:46 +0000

Baryonic matter is not symmetrical with its antiparticles. I forget the percentage given that it is not my subfield, but it was very high, meaning the existing amount of matter is just a sliver of what was initially "created"/coagulated

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_asymmetry

New comment by CyanBird in "Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)"

CyanBird — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:42:49 +0000

Instead of pocket I just have a personal discord server where I organize all the neat links that I find online, I write a short intro or header and some keywords

Far easier to search and more instantly readable than pocket is

New comment by CyanBird in "Was Starship’s Stage Zero a Bad Pad?"

CyanBird — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:03:18 +0000

There are old tweets of Musk stating that maybe having the pad be the way it was without diverted could be a mistake

This issue was a measured known risk for the team/leadership

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/12tapz0/elon_...

New comment by CyanBird in "Artificial Intelligence Can’t Work Without Our Data. We Should Be Paid for It"

CyanBird — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:06:58 +0000

Andrew Yang's focus groups and a/B testing stated that "freedom dividend" had better reception than UBI or any other phrasing, at least when it came to it being done in the US, it would be very interesting to see the outcomes in other countries

New comment by CyanBird in "Intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories, new study finds"

CyanBird — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:56:42 +0000

Not eating as a consequence of deep depression is not the same as not eating for personal choice

New comment by CyanBird in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

CyanBird — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:54:31 +0000

Well then said cook/bartender will be judged by that

New comment by CyanBird in "Swiss capital city wants to test controlled sale of cocaine"

CyanBird — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:26:53 +0000

Can you "just roll it back" tho?

I think the naivety with which drugs are discussed by the intelligentsia and petit bourgeoisie versus their real toll once normalized is impossibly dangerous at a societal level

Crack/paco/pasta base is *not* something to be played with, and it is ofc a direct easy to mass produce derivative cocaine with multiplies the profits of selling base cocaine itself...

New comment by CyanBird in "If you can’t tell a story about it, it isn’t real"

CyanBird — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:13:22 +0000

This article refers to public messaging, not personal one to one discussions by specialized individuals with specialized training

New comment by CyanBird in "Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida"

CyanBird — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 03:57:52 +0000

> It's probably been like this for centuries

This is mentioned on the article linked