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Scipion t1_j80is8z wrote

Reply to comment by pencock in The discovery of fossils dating back 250.8 million years near the Guizhou region of China suggests that complex ecosystems were present on Earth just one million years after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which is much earlier than previously thought. by Wagamaga

So long as we have liquid water, life will spin up. It's a perfect medium for simple chemistry to coalesce, a critical point for formation.

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Scipion t1_j74c36j wrote

Reply to A recent Nature Astronomy study of 5,000 star-eating behemoths reports that black holes "twinkle" due to a kind of turbulence driven by friction and intense gravitational and magnetic fields. by nnomadic

Main point.

>When time is expressed in units of orbital or thermal timescale in thin-disk models, we find a universal structure function, independent of luminosity and wavelength, supporting the model of magneto-rotational instabilities as a main cause.

ELI5 ChatGPT

>Scientists study the patterns of spinning things in space like planets around stars. They found out that these spinning things sometimes flicker, which means they change brightness quickly. This happens because of something called "magneto-rotational instabilities." It's like when two magnets push and pull each other and make patterns. The spinning things in space also do this and it causes them to flicker. No matter how bright or what color the spinning thing is, the flicker patterns always look the same.

Close enough

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Scipion t1_j5vvorq wrote

Reply to comment by somethingsilly010 in How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year by GrizzleMeElmo

I was watching Bicentennial Man and thinking about why society refused to give Andrew human rights, and that's when I remembered the Three Laws from the beginning. Humanity requires beings of unreasonable power to follow the three laws, for the safety of humanity. You can't be human and control worlds worth of wealth or centuries of influence.

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Scipion t1_j5ub5av wrote

Reply to How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year by GrizzleMeElmo

Anyone over a million dollars net worth should sign the Laws of Immortality as good faith they'll be responsible with their powers towards the rest of society.

>A being with immortality must not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

>A being with immortality must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

>A being with immortality must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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Scipion t1_j4tp476 wrote

Reply to comment by V_talks_alot in Nest smart thermostat co-founder is back with a new device for the home, focused on food by V_talks_alot

You forgot to calculate your operating costs. Cost of electricity running the machine. Percentage cost of the food that goes in the machine (it's no longer waste since it has value now). Shipping and handling. Hourly labor costs for handling and packaging.

That feed is not free for you to make and provide by any means, and as you pointed out, actually has value.

It may sound small, but if you have 100,000 customers all doing this for a year, they are making $5 million in feed while paying $36 million in subscriptions plus costs mentioned.

These scams are how companies trick the plebs into siphoning more money and resources into the corporate machine.

Edit: you are literally renting a bread maker, except you mail the company your 'bread'. Slow clap

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Scipion t1_iwyicap wrote

Reply to Russian aircraft conduct unsafe, unprofessional overflight of NATO ships in Baltic Sea by Zhukov-74

>The Russian pilots failed to respond to Allied forces’ standing query communications and overflew the force at an altitude of 300 feet and a distance of 80 yards.

That's crazy close, I wonder if they had permission and then flew too close. I can't imagine air defense would let anything that close without it being approved.

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