It's a lot like when we "share" our worms with fish.
There have been exactly 0 known deadly attacks from wild orcas in history.
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Valgrim commented on Show HN: Online Ruler – Measuring in inches/centimeters anruler.com/... · Posted by u/artiomyak
Working on a fix
Also my recommendation:
-Make the card vertical instead of horizontal (phones are held vertically)
-Add a +/- bottom on each end of the slider for fine tuning the ppi by 0.1 increment or lower,
-Allow to manually change the value in the field
Valgrim commented on First 2D, non-silicon computer developed psu.edu/news/research/sto... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Molybdenum and tungsten both have melting point much higher than silicon, Maybe these circuits could be a good candidate for Venus rovers?
Valgrim commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik
A few years ago a popular idea was that our universe existed as an hologram on the surface of a black hole.
Recently I saw also a theory that black hole might not, in fact, exist as we thought, and may be instead something called 'gravastars', where large stars do not collapse in an infinite point but instead the mass reaches a maximum density and hardness and become sorts of empty bubbles.
Now this. It's not exactly a new idea, I remember reading about black hole cosmology 10 years ago.
Sooo... My uneducated, pop-sci fueled imagination now sees the universe as a mathematical function of a fractal looking like a shell with patterns on it, and those patterns interact or 'fold' in a way where the patterns themselves can be thought of as shells with patterns on them, and each shell creates something that, from the inside, looks like a new dimension of space or time, and what we think of as black holes are the next fold. Does that make sense?
Valgrim commented on How much information is in DNA? dynomight.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
> There's less than 80 minutes worth of music's worth of information
Or awful lot of text information (state of art compressors can do up to 1:10 ratio for plain text, decoder itself is rather small, 750MB compressed could potentially contain like 7GB of text data).
Also, look at demoscene. 4k (4 kB is the size of executable) can do crazy things, and 64kB can fit a lot of nice 3D objects, music, text, complex effects etc. weight less than any screenshot of any moment of running demo. In 95kB you can have full game (google kkringer)
P.S. better example: full snake game in 56 BYTES https://github.com/donno2048/snake
For comparation the link above is 34 bytes, whole sentence is 83 bytes. It's possible to do a lot if we're talking about code
There's an interesting implication to this. We assume that evolution happens when random mutations (similar to random bit flips, removal or injection?) occur and when the random result has an advantage, the mutation tends to remain in the gene pool.
Yet at the same time the result of this random code is extremely compressed, to the point we compare it to procedural generative code.
Not sure what we can do with this but it certainly seems like we can once again get inspired by nature on this one.
Valgrim commented on Why Microgravity Helps Crystals Grow Better sparkgravity.com/journal/... · Posted by u/sebg
Could this lead to better semiconductor manufacturing? Increased yields, fewer defects, larger chips, etc.?
ZBLAN is such a material, a type of glass much more transparent than silica glass and could be used for fiber optics. It has been tested on the ISS.
A similar fictional material is also at the center of the plot of the novel Artemis by Andy Weir.
This video walks through the tech in a very explainable way, and the interviewer asks a lot of pointed questions.
To your questions
> 1) keep the hole from collapsing
They are vaporizing the rock which turns everythingeft into an obsidian like substance.
> 2) remove the volume of rock required to continue going down
As the rock is vaporized, they push nitrogen gas down the hole to cycle the vapor back to the surface
The video goes through the main challenges they have, like rate of penetration, power output and other small issues.
Will they be successful? Who knows, but the concept seems sound and the tech is proven. Can they do it at scale and consistently enough to change drilling worldwide? Who knows.
I think the parent comment exposes the obvious flaw of using plasma to drill:
Drilling with diamond bits uses fluid, which is uncompressible. Drilling with plasma uses gas, which is compressible. No matter how thick the obsidian layer get, there is a critical pressure differential between outside and inside and it will crack and collapse.
Valgrim commented on Put a data center on the moon? spectrum.ieee.org/data-ce... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Valgrim commented on Lithium-sulfur battery retains 80% charge capacity after 25,000 cycles techxplore.com/news/2025-... · Posted by u/T-A
The amount of energy required is the only sensible perspective from which to analyze interstellar travel. If you make things really small, again, it's not much of a problem.
The author also neglects the time dilation. Go fast enough and the time dilation takes care of the duration.
Give my team the resources and I'll put a few billion base pairs of Picard's DNA into orbit around Proxima long before Daenerys is riding a dragon.
My personal favorite these days is innumerable 'smart' pellets, bacteria sized, steering themselves using albedo-changing surfaces toward the ship's magnetic sail to transfer their momentum, allowing for constant acceleration.