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Antipode commented on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4... · Posted by u/brandonb

Insanity · 5 days ago

Our species started out predominantly eating fruits, vegetables, nuts,.. As hunter gatherers, meat eating came later and initially was still not a dominant source of nutrition.

So yes, you eventually evolved for this, but it wasn’t the dominant food source for a loooooong time.

Antipode · 5 days ago

Also likely insects.

Antipode commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam

ddorian43 · 7 months ago

It is actually the reverse. Keto & carnivore(with only fatty read meat) is the best. If you have diseases like diabetes/epilepsy/mental-illness/food-addiction/etc it (may) help a lot. I eat 6-7 days/week red meat.

Source: I do ketovore for 2.5+ years.

Antipode · 7 months ago

That directly contradicts everything I've ever read about high red meat consumption. Are there reputable studies that back this up?

Antipode commented on Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/CoopaTroopa

westurner · 8 months ago

Does LIDAR work underwater?

FWIU in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan, there's a 9,000 year old stonehenge-like structure 40 feet underwater; that's 4000 thousand years older than Stonehenge and about 6000 years older than the Osireoin and the Pyramids.

/? Michigan underwater stonehenge: https://www.google.com/search?q=michigan+underwater+stonehen...

There's not even a name or a wikipedia page for the site? There are various presumed Clovis sites which are now underwater in TN, as well.

Antipode · 8 months ago

A lot of the pictures used in articles for this are pictures of something else (possible an old ship). Here's what it actually looks like: https://holleyarchaeology.com/index.php/the-truth-about-the-...

Calling it Stonehenge-like is a real stretch.

Antipode commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

paxys · 8 months ago

There are countless versions of this theory out there. Basically, a universe existed, then collapsed down to a single point, and then expanded again (the big bang). Rinse and repeat.

Antipode · 8 months ago

In this version we're still inside the black hole.

Antipode commented on ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC home.cern/news/news/physi... · Posted by u/miiiiiike

rad_gruchalski · 9 months ago

Most likely because lead was used for faking coins. Lead covered in a thin layer of gold. You know that coin biting move from movies about middle ages? It was to check if you’re dealing with gold or lead. So lead was the impersonation of the fake. Turning a fake into the real deal.

Antipode · 9 months ago

I thought the coin bite was just to check that it left an indentation. How would you use it to differentiate gold from lead? They're both soft.

Antipode commented on Busy Status Bar busy.bar/?hn... · Posted by u/aleksi

nixosbestos · a year ago

Truly, it's so hard for me to not see this as just dressed-up techie-flavored consumerism. If you can't look at your phone to run a timer without getting distracted, I think there's a different problem to solve.

(reminder that Android makes it trivial to not show notifications on the lock screen, or even in the top bar. I see notifications only when I want to.)

Antipode · a year ago

This is primarily to inform other people in the same building as you.

Antipode commented on Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits storagereview.com/news/st... · Posted by u/radicality

robxorb · 2 years ago

Isn't there a non-zero chance that given an infinite number of digits, the probability of finding repeats of pi, each a bit longer, increases until a perfect, endless repeat of pi will eventually be found thus nullifying pi's own infinity?

Antipode · 2 years ago

The chance of that loop repeating forever is 0.

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Antipode commented on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station fox2detroit.com/news/detr... · Posted by u/mikece

mrweasel · 2 years ago

The article seems a little light on details. I don't expect them to explain exactly how it works, but is this a bug/feature in the pump design?

If you can just roll up to the pump and communicate with it over Bluetooth, then I'd argue that it's a design flaw and the manufacturer should be held accountable as this seems like a gross laps in security.

Antipode · 2 years ago

Yes it's a clear design flaw but it's still theft. It's not like you're legally allowed to rob a store if the front door lock isn't installed properly and doesn't work.

Antipode commented on Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018) arxiv.org/abs/1803.11384... · Posted by u/weird_user

perihelions · 2 years ago

There's a lot of loopholes you could plausibly escape through. For one: you could use hybrid atmosphere-breathing engines to get most of the way to low orbit. (Using ambient atmosphere as a reaction mass circumvents the rocket equation). From low orbit, you can switch to electric thrusters with Isp much higher than the engines considered here: it's no longer necessary to have a thrust/weight ratio greater than unity.

A hydrogen planet would be particularly easy, since the light molecules would maximize Isp for a (non-combustion) thermal engine. A nuclear scramjet on a Hycaean world would have some truly impressive performance.

Antipode · 2 years ago

A hybrid engine like SABRE might also be viable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)

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