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Comment Re:We are not far behind (Score 1) 113

They are prosecuting non-violent protesters that did not vandalize anything and they are trying to use Enron-era law to get 20 year sentences. Which is ridiculous. I wouldn't be complaining if it was limited to a bunch of misdemeanor trespass charges, but Democrats are going for 20 year sentences for anyone who entered Capitol, including reporters.

Submission + - Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years (msn.com)

fjo3 writes: For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism.

The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that it happened saw the emergence of plants.

Now, an international team of scientists have observed the evolutionary event happening between a species of algae commonly found in the ocean and a bacterium.

Comment Re:We are not far behind (Score 1) 113

Which non-violent political protesters were jailed? Surely you can't be referring to the January 6th rioters, who tresspassed in the capitol building, vandalized it, and assaulted the capitol police? All three acts are clearly illegal under any rational reading of the law.

Every single one of them did all these things?

Submission + - Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again (scientificamerican.com)

fahrbot-bot writes: Scientific American is reporting that after [5] months of nonsensical transmissions from humanity’s most distant emissary, NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft is finally communicating intelligibly with Earth again.

When the latest communications glitch occurred last fall, scientists could still send signals to the distant probe, and they could tell that the spacecraft was operating. But all they got from Voyager 1 was gibberish—what NASA described in December 2023 as “a repeating pattern of ones and zeros.” The team was able to trace the issue back to a part of the spacecraft’s computer system called the flight data subsystem, or FDS, and identified that a particular chip within that system had failed.

Mission personnel couldn’t repair the chip. They were, however, able to break the code held on the failed chip into pieces they could tuck into spare corners of the FDS’s memory, according to NASA. The first such fix was transmitted to Voyager 1 on April 18. With a total distance of 30 billion miles to cross from Earth to the spacecraft and back, the team had to wait nearly two full days for a response from the probe. But on April 20 NASA got confirmation that the initial fix worked. Additional commands to rewrite the rest of the FDS system’s lost code are scheduled for the coming weeks, according to the space agency, including commands that will restore the spacecraft’s ability to send home science data.

Also: Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months and NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

Comment Re:What about (Score 3, Insightful) 113

There is almost zero chance of that happening, as attempting to arrest sitting head of state of Russia would likely trigger nuclear exchange. So Hauge for Putin would require a regime change in Russia, and not the violent kind where the losing side gets all killed. As such, Putin will likely end up like Stalin - poisoned and dying on a carpet in his own piss than tried in the international courts.

Comment We are not far behind (Score 1, Troll) 113

While we can recognize evil of Putin's regime when it engages in totalitarian crackdowns on free speech, the sad truth is that we are not far behind. For example, Biden's justice department manufacturing novel legal theories to imprison non-violent political protesters while ignoring similar cases elsewhere.

Comment Re:do not want (Score 0) 201

Clearly EVs are the future and the savings will be every year, for the foreseeable future.

If we look at the electricity costs alone, why are you so certain it will remain low when generation is down, regulatory costs are up, and demand is up?

That aside, maintenance costs of EVs are proven to be higher than ICE. The promise of simpler electric cars did not materialize, EVs on the road today are differently complex than ICEs only the technology is newer. So no, it is not clear to me that EVs will be cheaper to run on individual or fleet scale.

Comment Re:Global warming is a benefit (Score 1) 201

Any "study" claiming that they can predict long-term impacts of climate change is speculative at best. Not only such studies in normal circumstances are highly unreliable, doubly so for the long-term forecasts. Now compound that uncertainty with model-based climate predictions and all that is left is uncertainty.

TL;DR Long term GDP forecast studies are BS, doubly so when attempting to account for climate change.

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