GreyEyedGhost

Wild claims? “‘We did this thing in the lab.’ It could be a breakthrough provided they can scale production.” The only thing that would make this a wild claim is if they didn’t actually do what they said or if it didn’t work like they said. They didn’t even claim this could be commercialized.

Also, Professor Zhao works at Western University, in Ontario, Canada. Here’s an article about this same research on their website. The only reference to CATL in the article you linked mentions that they are commercially producing sodium ion batteries using a different process.

“My pronouns are dipshit/buddy”? One complimentary, the other derogatory. These are neopronouns I can get behind 100%.

Was there another president who polled as worse than two different immediately previous presidents? He could have just had people saying Obama was better, but no, he had to run a third time, and now (all the best) people are saying Obama and Biden were better than him.

I hope he cries himself to sleep on his gold polyester pillow.

Well, the same applies to social services (welfare) and education, and the rich and powerful already know all this. So why do you think they don’t want us comfortable, educated, healthy, and secure?

If you ignore the cost of living, sure. One simple trick to make a million dollars - work 34 years full time at $15/hour without spending any of it. Fact of the matter is, she already spent $30 million on employment payouts as part of dismantling AHS, with more coming, as well as increased costs and wait times outsourcing diagnostics to Dynalife. And don’t worry, if they reach their goal, you’ll see overall medical profits, or rather costs, to rival Americans. But keep on sucking up to her.

Your critical thinking skills seem to be on par with your reading comprehension skills.

Word problems can be tricky, but that reads as 150 people who were terminated over the span of 7 years. So that’s $200k per person.

Remember, word problems involve comprehension and math.

Well, it’s still a nice little asterisk for birthright citizenship. Now the country can be as deadbeat as the father and sucks just a little bit more for the kid.

Mothers certainly can abandon their children, they just have to wait longer.

I’m not an American, but as a Canadian this is still far more important to me than I’d like it to be. Hopefully this helps make a difference.

For the millionth time, if every satellite in the starlink constellation were to fail today, they would be gone in about five years at the high end. They are low enough in the atmosphere that they have to fire station-keeping rockets to maintain orbit. If they collide, the small pieces deorbit even faster due to drag.

From this article:

At around 400 kilometers and into the 500-km realm — home to ISS and the SpaceX Starlink satellites among others — atmospheric drag plays a major role. Dead satellites and debris usually slow and burn up in the atmosphere in just a few years. This natural cleansing process accelerates when the sun becomes more active and solar coronal mass ejections strike Earth and cause the atmosphere to swell.

“In those altitudes, we can probably do a lot and we will be forgiven,” Linares says.

Kind of both. There are specific stories in each book, but there is an overarching theme that the whole series brings to light. Each stand well enough on their own, but the overall theme is better appreciated when read in order. The second 3 books in particular have stronger ties and are very much a trilogy.

Best. Parasite. Ever.

It does not cluck.

Fake: loving father…

“My name hasn’t been released yet, but I’m getting worried!”

but that’s no reason we can’t start now.

The launch technology is already taken care of. We still need interplanetary radiation shielding and a landing system that doesn’t bounce them across the landscape like a ball, but that’s no reason we can’t start now.

Ah, that could be. Probably due to responses to their first one where they had a bunch of college students holding little mirrors and trying to aim them, and I’ve never watched Mythbusters regularly.

Probably closer to 20 pounds if they are awarded the full amount, and the general rule seems to be that the lawyers get about 30%, but the overall sentiment of your statement is correct.

They did everything wrong in that video. On of their assertions was that soldiers wouldn’t be able to keep their mirrors properly polished. I don’t know about now, but even 40 years ago, polishing brass was a common punishment detail. I imagine it was moreso in Archimedes’ day, when brass and bronze were the thing to use. Also, there are techniques for using a signaling mirror to hit a specific location which aren’t that complicated, would certainly be something that Archimedes could figure out, and would work better for aligning the mirrors than “try really hard to aim at that spot.” The ridiculous assumptions they make besides those also detract from the goal of a best effort to test the heat ray, and seem to stem from the idea that people back then were stupider than we are rather than just not having accumulated as much knowledge as we had.

It was entertaining, but not as informative as I would have liked.