Hacker News: cocothem

New comment by cocothem in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

cocothem — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:22:18 +0000

Around 2030–2036, the power will likely drop below the level needed to run even a single instrument. At that point, Voyager 1 will officially "die" as a scientific mission.

But Voyager will keep going forever. Because there is no air resistance or friction in the vacuum of space, Voyager 1 doesn't need "fuel" to keep moving. According to Newton’s First Law of Motion, an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an external force. Since there's nothing out there to stop it, it will continue its journey long after its systems go dark.

In 40,000 years: It will pass within 1.7 light-years of the star AC+79 3888 in the constellation Ursa Minor. In 300,000 years: It might pass near the star Sirius. The Long Haul: It is expected to orbit the center of our Milky Way galaxy indefinitely, potentially for billions of years, carrying the "Golden Record" as a final message from humanity. Fun Fact: If Voyager 1 were to hit a pebble-sized object at its current speed, it would be catastrophic. Fortunately, space is so incredibly empty that the odds of it hitting anything larger than a dust grain for the next several billion years are nearly zero

Plastic Pollution Is Bad Enough. Burning It Can Be Worse

cocothem — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:05:26 +0000

Article URL: https://undark.org/2026/04/10/burning-plastic-pollution-indonesia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729856

Points: 1

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New comment by cocothem in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

cocothem — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:25:14 +0000

Question - do you need doctors to stamp your plans, prescribe treatments or are you allowed to try anything you decide to?

New comment by cocothem in "Let Kids Be Loud"

cocothem — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:11:59 +0000

for the entire time the ice cream truck is stopped, it's engine is still running and generating toxic fumes. Had one parking strategically right next to a playground.

New comment by cocothem in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

cocothem — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:47:00 +0000

What about the ink? What's the keyword to search for nom toxic printer ink/cartridge

New comment by cocothem in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

cocothem — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:02:29 +0000

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35155032/

Tattoos, a common form of body adornment, have been associated with numerous cutaneous complications. These include not only benign neoplasms and malignant tumors but also lymphoid conditions occurring within the tattoo.

New comment by cocothem in "AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data"

cocothem — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:55:13 +0000

have you thought about bot detection tools like recaptcha?

New comment by cocothem in "H-1B visa lottery is shutting out top talent"

cocothem — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:02:44 +0000

what works best for the economy as a whole, in the long term can really affect someone negatively on the short term

New comment by cocothem in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

cocothem — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 04:14:07 +0000

same experience will give different teachings to different people. for you going to a homeless shelter may help you appreciate life more, see that you can make a change in others by helping them etc. for someone wired differently - it may be a yucky experience with smelly people. so ymmv

New comment by cocothem in "1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates"

cocothem — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:55:30 +0000

not everyone graduates into a strong job market, but tides can change. If I were in your shoes I would make sure to do some coding/ get some certifications on the side of my restaurant gig

New comment by cocothem in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

cocothem — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:40:54 +0000

1) Taste is very overrated, IMO. Too much gratification in our society. 2) SALTY is a taste. Once you remove salt and give it a few weeks, you will start finding about tastes you didn't know existed. 3) Once you cook your own food from scratch using quality and healthy ingredients , what you find tasty can change. It has in my case.

New comment by cocothem in "Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)"

cocothem — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:49:37 +0000

it does for minors once they become adults?

New comment by cocothem in "Cloud Egress Costs"

cocothem — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:41:28 +0000

Are you a Google Cloud customer looking to exit Google Cloud? If so, you are eligible for free data transfer when you migrate all of your Google Cloud workloads and data from Google Cloud to another cloud provider or an on-premises data center.

https://cloud.google.com/exit-cloud

New comment by cocothem in "My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar"

cocothem — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 02:32:16 +0000

From experience there is a terrible kerosene smell, I wouldn't advise spending hours. Maybe in a car with closed windows

New comment by cocothem in "Elephants may be domesticating themselves"

cocothem — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:24:02 +0000

make that few hundred thousand years ago. We were probably much more fragile then, but still doubtful any other animal could

New comment by cocothem in "Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says"

cocothem — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 03:28:36 +0000

Infections can trigger autoimmune diseases so I wouldn't be surprised about triggering allergies as well. So not the antibiotic imo but the virus

Neoplants bioengineers houseplants to use them as air purifiers

cocothem — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:22:52 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/27/neoplants-bioengineers-houseplants-to-use-them-as-air-purifiers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33595274

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cocothem in "Show HN: Query Google Sheet data using PostgreSQL clients"

cocothem — Tue, 31 May 2022 11:04:57 +0000

Have you looked at connected sheets? https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/connected-sheets

New comment by cocothem in "Etsy Strike"

cocothem — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:42:18 +0000

do you want to go back to "mom and pops" shops in lieu of supermarket chains? I don't. I would like supermarket chains to treat their employees better and I'm willing to pay 10% more for it.

New comment by cocothem in "Europe is investing heavily in trains"

cocothem — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:35:42 +0000

I view any mass transport as a security risk for me so I welcome airport "security theater". there is downside, but imo airports screen better than trains for bad actors