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outstanding_bond

@ outstanding_bond @mander.xyz

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  • MOOSE: A proposed emergency "bail-out" system capable of bringing a single astronaut safely down from Earth orbit to the planet's surface

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  • It seems like the structural properties of the foam could be tricky to get right. If it’s not strong enough it could fail under drag forces or turbulence in the atmosphere, but if it’s too strong then the astronaut would be unable to free themselves once they landed.

  • How long did it take you to finish Space Age?

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  • I think the order is forced so that Aquilo is the last planet, but the player can do Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Gleba in any order.

  • Too bad about all the other babies they tried that on first...

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  • I’m curious about the use of the word “laser” here. The description says the comic is from 1939 but the laser wouldn’t be invented until the 1960s. And the word “laser” is a really specific acronym (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) that doesn’t seem be appear in sci fi before then (There were heat rays and blasters but no lasers from what I can tell).

  • Once a bloodline has no more children, its history is lost to the wind—extinct and likely forgotten.

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  • It's so tragic that we have no records of Washington, Tesla, da Vinci, Newton, Faraday, or Kant. If only they'd thought to have kids they might have left a mark on the world.

  • i will never understand scientific fraud

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  • The thing that gets me is that these people are all really smart. If someone is willing to lie and do math, why not work at an unscrupulous pharma/finance company? They'd make way more money and do way less work. I'd even argue that fraud in the private sector is less unethical - if investors give money to a fraud they deserve to lose it, and regulators take an adversarial stance and have whole orgs (in theory) policing fraud like the SEC and FDA.

    It takes a really particular kind of scumbag to seek a position of public trust, make a bunch of trainees financially and professionally dependent on them, accept taxpayer money intended to help cancer patients, then commit fraud.

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  • Wife and I did Dorf Romantik on a recent long train ride and we had a great time. It’s very cozy/calm which helps when you want to stay low energy and not bother your neighbors. And I fully agree with the battery pack idea - it gives me a ton of peace of mind when I’m traveling.

  • penguins

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  • What in the world is the original context here? Have these people never encountered a puddle before? Her foot is completely immersed in gutter water and his white pants are about to be soaked and gross.

  • Moldy Monday Rule

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  • I like how the first message is in both languages, but the second is only in English.

  • Waiting for a ride

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  • Great shot! LA Union Station?

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    outstanding_bond @mander.xyz

    Who needs GitHub when you can just email the author?

  • "We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukraine

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  • You and I already agree with the sentiment of this message and interpret this claim charitably, which the intended recipients of this message (US Republicans) will mostly not do. This message needs to convince them, not us, and it would be a far stronger argument if it cited a source.

  • Games with absolute banger OSTs (and perhaps good stories / gameplay)

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  • The Surviving Mars OST is spectacular, though the gameplay is just good.

  • POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG

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  • New construction sometimes doesn’t even help, when developers knocks down an old affordable 12 unit apartment building and build a luxury 36 unit building, you’ve created -12 units of affordable housing.

    The argument I hear against this is that the 36 people who move into the luxury apartments moved from somewhere, and so 36 other apartments become available. The reduced demand for the vacated apartments then drives their prices down.

    Of course, housing as a market is super distorted for a bunch of reasons so this effect is muddled. But I think it would be a net negative to fully disregard supply and demand in a market-based economy and preserve 12 affordable units in favor of 36 luxury ones.

    Largely agree with all your other points though.

  • An Explanation of Boltzmann Brains (Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell) [10:15]

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  • Maybe I'm missing context, but why the downvotes on this?

  • Why are maglev trains still rare?

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    That'll be another 10B plus tips, thanks 🇺🇸

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  • Not a huge fan of the Israel situation but it does seem like they often stay out at the US's request:

    During the 1990–1991 Gulf War, Iraq carried out a missile campaign against Israel, in which it launched 42 modified Scud missiles (designated Al-Hussein) at Israeli cities with the strategic objective of provoking Israel into launching retaliatory attacks and potentially jeopardizing the multinational coalition formed by the United States against Iraq, which had full backing and extensive contributions from other Muslim-majority states; Israel did not respond to the Iraqi missile attacks due to American pressure, and Iraq failed to gather support for its occupation of Kuwait.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq%E2%80%93Israel_relations

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    The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor?

    arxiv.org /abs/2307.12008

  • Where do you get news from online that you trust?

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  • DW news (dw.com) is pretty good and not too sensational. They’re like German PBS with a whole English side of the site.

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    FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Treatment of Certain Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    www.fda.gov /news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-gene-therapy-treatment-certain-patients-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy

  • New data proves almost no one uses Bitcoin as currency. It's actually more like gambling

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  • I don't intend to ever own bitcoin, but "the government called 1000 australians and asked whether they use a soon-to-be-taxed, questionably-illegal currency, and most people said no" is some pretty poor science. Why is this the top post in the "Science" community of the science-focused Lemmy instance?