Comment Moon Rock Storage (Score 3, Informative) 19
This is a good video showing how meticulous the storage and cataloging is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Liquid Nitrogen or Vacuum? (Score 5, Informative) 19
These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, formed billions of years ago during fiery eruptions that launched molten droplets skyward, instantly freezing in space.
That's movie physics, not reality. They would have cooled more slowly in a vacuum.
If you want see them, this article has the only two pictures I found while (briefly) searching:
https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/0...
Comment The Ad Writes Itself (Score 4, Funny) 66
Volvo's current belts already use three load-limiting profiles- the new belts increase that number to 11
Looking forward to the commercial starring Spinal Tap.
Comment Honesty (Score 1) 25
I bet it would be quite enlightening if someone were to ask him whether he'd call Gemini's race-swapped historical figures dishonest.
Comment YT Link (Score 5, Informative) 16
The key observation was that the Nu Octantis planet is retrograde -- the planet and one star both orbit the second star, but they do so in opposite directions, with the planet having the tighter orbit around the second star.
This (old) vid should help if you're having trouble visualizing the orbits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Prior Art (Score 4, Informative) 51
Comment Sounds Fitting (Score 3, Insightful) 128
The college essay wrongly encourages students to cast themselves as victims, to exaggerate the adversity they've faced, and to turn genuinely upsetting experiences into the focal point of their self-understanding.
You could have just removed the word "essay" from that sentence.
Comment Aim Lower (Score 2) 110
We LITERALLY build UIs for fucking children now, because target audience to maximize addiction.
Comment Two Consequences Not Addressed in TFA (Score 4, Interesting) 39
If the system can call first downs, it can surely call touchdowns. Also, it would seem to eliminate challenges to either.
They only mention the system being used to replace a measurement ("walking chains onto the field"), but if it can do that, it should be able to do it all.
They only mention the system being used to replace a measurement ("walking chains onto the field"), but if it can do that, it should be able to do it all.
Comment Good Run (Score 3, Insightful) 16
For several years
Since 2012. That's a pretty good run, even by Nintendo standards.
Comment Tokens Per Second (Score 2) 90
Thanks for the TPS Report, /.
Comment You don't know . . . (Score 2) 47
. . . why an AC post was mod 0?
Comment The ***** Show (Score -1, Offtopic) 57
I was planning to link this vid even before the one liner at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Quite the Opposite (Score 4, Interesting) 29
Wikipedia's issue of featuring outdated and unflattering portraits
I (and probably many of the subjects) have often wished WP could just use older, unreproducible, much more flattering pictures of now 60+ (or even 40+) celebs from the heyday of their careers instead the often up-to-date, hi-res (with problem-free copyright) images snapped by at a convention or in public.
Comment Thought Andromeda was the Closest (Score 1) 27
NPR reports on "a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door."
"Their calculations suggest that the Large Magellanic Cloud must be harboring a black hole that's about 600,000 times the mass of our Sun,"
TIL the LMC is a galaxy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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