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Samsung? We got one used and it’s great for the drying part, but when I went to research how to change the “melody”, and I’m being generous here, to a chime or something else…nope. You get that, or silence. So we use silence and listen for the sound of it stopping. That song is terrible, and for there to be no options at all in a modern appliance…why was this a good idea on the drawing board?

This is bad.

Aside from the orbit change mentioned, the huge increase in stellar radiation would certainly blow much of the lighter elements including water away. The core and some residuals that might remain on the far sides would be all that’s left.

Related, but I’d say Falcon Heavy is. Especially if you add in the dual booster landings.

Especially in situations like this where it’s quite possible it would cost less to go back to the basics of better pay and training to create willing workers. Maybe the initial cost was less than what they have to spend to improve things, but add in all the backtracking and cost of mistakes, I doubt it.

That explains it. I read the title and wondered how they are doing prethought crime.

Understanding the variety of speech over a drive-thru speaker can be difficult for a human with experience in the job. I can’t see the current level of voice recognition matching it, especially if it’s using LLMs for processing of what it managed to detect. If I’m placing a food order I don’t need a LLM hallucination to try and fill in blanks of what it didn’t convert correctly to tokens or wasn’t trained on.

A wizard should know better.

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The only critique I’ve got is that it feels like a tilt shift (small) and not a huge starship. Giving softer shadows and different lighting will help, as will adding more detail to the exterior and different parts like the top deflector dish through finer textures and greeble. Blender might have some extensions that help with the latter.

Lastly, having other small things in the scene to give it scale may help. I read that one thing that made the new Dune movies feel so big is that Denis has a person in every scene of something large, to give us the best reference we could ever have of scale. Can’t really do that here, but in an orbit or dock scene you could certainly throw some basic shuttlecrafts or worker “bees” (like seen in the first ST movie) to have a taste of human size.

I’ve always loved the Miranda class and related.

Carbon monoxide also contribute to ozone breakdown, and there are additional manmade substances similar to CFCs with chlorine and bromine that are still leaked. Environmental changes in the Antarctic also can increase ozone depletion as well as longer lasting cold air in the stratosphere (observed in 2020 in the Arctic). The mention of emissions was just to suggest that smaller reactions can get lost in all the other problems we have created, although wildfire increases are raising CO.

I didn’t see a mention in the paper on what amount the bump up would be with the maximum amount of AlO2 distributed in the layers of the atmosphere where the reactions would occur. When emissions are in the trillions of tons, I wonder if it would even be measurable.

Since Jesus would love all the people they hate, yes they would.

At least the article came with the numbers. Given what I regularly read about all the pollutants we daily pump into the atmosphere, the numbers in this article for the materials being atomized is…well, they’re very small in scale.

Basically, if a few hundred tons per year is hurting the ozone (and other things), just imagine what the billions of tons per year of emissions does.

I know you’re asking for a single place to go, which isn’t going to happen until “modern” places that were captured by Google and the like turn into the old places. Sometimes you can dig into old archives and find pieces of things that were digitized. Put enough of them together and you might get some answers. It’s difficult and very regional dependent on what was done over the decades. Just finding an online copy of old highway maps is a challenge, and I figured that would be easy. But if you can find some sources, it’s fascinating to try and overlay old and new and see just how much has (and hasn’t) changed. I’ve found old roads in my area that were cut up by newer and by lots of development, but are still there, just not connected in the same way.

At least one Black Mirror suggested a dark side to this. My caveat to any solution humans try to come up with to fix problems that we created with technology is, we’ll probably introduce a few new problems in doing so, and the original solution may fail at some point leaving us in even worse conditions. We have a Midas touch on things, only it’s more gray goo or plasticy than gold.

Spore made a huge impact, not only in mainstreaming the idea of an evolving game but in the ability to control characteristics and shape interactively and easily. Plus being able to share creations online was huge, even though so many of them ended up in certain shapes (humans being humans). Where I think Spore failed is in trying to rush through the first stages and get to the “civilization” parts. It would have better if it had a slower pace staying within the animal world. They also failed when they dumbed down and sanitizing the original game, which was much more violent (see the demo with Robin Williams)…but that’s how nature is.

Thrive is very impressive, but it might be too realistic in its complexity and trying to include everything and that will keep it from getting popular. If I remember you can dial it back some, but it’s still very technical compared to the simplicity that made Spore work. Maybe there can’t be a good middle ground.

That was news to me. The wiki for Torosaurus is a deep rabbit hole, and since fossilization is rare and we have to go with what little we can find, this will probably be a long debate either way.

With that being said, whatever the name, three horn dino is best dino! And weird that the meme wouldn’t have one on there, since it has always been a well known dinosaur in movies and toys.

Is it a physical HD (magnetic) and making noise? I had one years ago (fortunately my only failure so far) and if I kept persisting to try and read it via a USB recovery drive, I managed to pull enough data off that was important. If it’s a newer SSD, that’s a different thing. Doesn’t mean all the data is gone, just a lot harder (read $$$) to pull. Hopefully it’s just software or a loose cable.

Does playing a white guy playing a black guy count?

“What do you mean, you people?”

“What do YOU MEAN, you people??”