Got me curioser, so I googled it. One source said what I thought:

https://www.scientificamerican...

"Because gravity is necessary for density differences to arise, neither buoyancy nor convection occur in a zero-gravity environment such as space. Consequently, the combustion products accumulate around the flame, preventing sufficient oxygen from reaching it and sustaining the combustion reaction. Ultimately the flame goes out."

and

"Researchers learned that flames extinguish themselves."

and

"Oxygen could still reach a flame in a gravity-free environment if someone blew the gas into the flame or let it "diffuse" in. It is the diffusion process that spreads the scent of a perfume in a room without air circulation: the perfume slowly mixes with the air to try to achieve a uniform distribution. This process, however, is too slow to sustain a flame."

Other sites don't directly contradict this, but say fires in the ISS are dangerous because smoke doesn't rise and set off smoke detectors on ceilings like in homes, so they install smoke detectors in the ventilation ducts. Also that fires on the ISS can survive on lower levels of oxygen than humans, and thus are much more dangerous if they linger on. That's confusing; if the smoke doesn't rise, then wouldn't it smother the fire like the first site says? But if the ISS has moving air from ventilation ducts, maybe that is what feeds oxygen to the fires.

Thanks for tricking me into not being so lazy :-) But all I learned is that I don't know.

Doesn't weightlessness make fires much less dangerous, since heat no longer rises and can't suck in the oxygen they need?

The continuous sandbag dome systems are actually structurally and seismically stable. Good in desert climates, at least. They use local materials to coat the surfaces with stucco.

It would be very amendable to automation.

See here but many other videos on the Tubes too:

https://www.ameripacific.com/c...

Nice try, Dr. Notman!

They could use a better model and spend 50x the cost to generate 30% better subtitles, no doubt.

It's good enough for their "summarize the video" feature which I now use to avoid listening to AI narrators. Especially the ones programmed to maximize runtime with nonsense, repetition, and restatements.

I'm 90% sure I read about this in the TNG Technical Manual back in the 80's.

The film crews never adhered to it but it was a cool idea.

If miniaturized and adapted to a passive phased array they could be installed in the cargo holds of airplanes too.

Yeah, this article is too cute by half.

Per reports SpaceX has been arming Ukraine with terminals for several years so Russia has put a lot of engineering into detecting, characterizing, and targeting the signals. They've provided this technology to Iran.

Trump recently bragged about CIA providing automatic weapons to the "protesters" ahead of the "protests" (over Bessent's currency war) which Iran shut down using the SL detectors.

Allegedly large shipments of terminals by Mossad were interdicted and those agents were hanged.

These spooks are willing to "fight to the last Iranian". Glorifying this is complicity in their entrapment.

There are much better ways to freedomtech than broadcasting a beacon unless a rapid color revolution is the goal.

People worry about China landing in California and taking over but it might be that having the Chinese Communist Party run California would reduce both taxes and regulation.

They get auth through CPanel then get root through Copyfail.

Brace for impact.

There was a catastrophic auth bypass CVE for CPanel the same day.

Chaining is just normal these days.

It starts off that way but winds up with ethnic hiring practices and nepotism..

Cheap labor becomes a thing of the past.

jobs.now has a database or these postings.

Most people wouldn't argue that Switzerland is a real country, recently with about 7 million people. Especially before the EU influence and the ending of financial privacy there.

Yet most or those same people would argue that half of US States couldn't each be an independent country because there aren't enough people.

Being neutral would benefit many of them in the ongoing hostilities.

So looks like AI is taking over everything, every platform, every product, every service, every job, it's a plague, a virus, a disease of some sort and apparently there is no cure, someone is always pushing it. Is it AI that is pushing AI?

If your company is dependent on 3rd party software you're at their mercy and not truly independent.

If your company's software relies on someone else to run it you're at their mercy and not truly independent.

You should be able to target multiple platforms and if you're not self-hosting to either be redundant already or be able to quickly move to new digs.

I've helped too many people bail water when they make those decisions incorrectly and wind up in an existential crisis for their company.

You don't need that kind of stress.

"But it's cheaper!"

Many people need to touch the stove.

Hopefully they can see their way clear to porting it to a platform where VR isn't a quixotic side-quest for a company with numerous other profitable business units.

Maybe PICO?