Comment Re:Dwarf planet no more (Score 1) 69
It's planet of short stature now
It's now "Planet experiencing Dwarfism", or "endwarfed planet". Try to keep up.
It's planet of short stature now
It's now "Planet experiencing Dwarfism", or "endwarfed planet". Try to keep up.
CERES
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1801-c.1856
First Steps to Astronomy and Geography (1828) lists the planets as, "Eleven: Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, and Herschel."
Unfortunately Herschel sounded too much like a German term for rectum, so they changed the name to end that stupid joke once and for all.
The math also changes quite a bit if controlled fusion becomes a thing, because Helium is the "ash" product of controlled D-T fusion.
What math? You did none.
Currently earth makes around 10^20 joules of electricity per year. At 3x10^14J/kg, that would require on the order of 1000 tons of DT fuel, and so helium "ash".
Current helium extraction rate is around 30,000 tons per year.
So yeah, fusion on a scale a order of magnitude greater than current total energy production could produce a useful amount of helium.
It is conceivable, barely.
peak funny was probably the suggestion about the gas giants. We want Helium, not Hydrogen.
Gas giants have helium. Was that supposed to be a joke?
The problem is the depth of their gravity wells. https://xkcd.com/681/
I suppose you could try a high-altitude flyby to scoop some of Saturn's atmosphere, 3% Helium. Still insanely expensive.
Still talking in circles. You seem to know nothing about resource extraction. Helium comes from uranium and thorium decay over vast time-scales. Being in earth is not enough.
There are 20 million tons of gold in the oceans, but you can't just suck it out.
You've lost me. How are you going to catch it? Previous post was hopelessly vague.
It is as replaceable as fossil fuels. Or we could mine the sun.
coming soon, "How our ai hacked airgapped and got to internet" mo money
don't think that is the intent here, Fin auth approved the data center, for financial benefit (hopefully of Finns). forgot google is evil
the level of hell that can only be reached through the AC's ass
i mean ms didn't really provide a new os so technically you are still on 10
TCO is no longer taught
we call that pulling a broadcom
god watched Akira, decided no.
do the bus horn sound "bring out your dead"
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