TranquilTurbulence

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[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

But what if there’s some sort of nuclear/zombie/robot/alien-apocalypse which results in tremendous data loss. Maybe a thousand years from now a future archeologist wonders why there are so many cursed pictures from a particular era. That might be a deeply unsettling mystery until someone finds an ancient research document about image generating AI. However, if nobody finds that document, the archeologists might just go with the traditional “ritual purposes” explanation.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Water and salts are a package deal. If you have a planet with one, you’re going to have all the others as well, because they all come from an exploding star.

When a star goes supernova, it creates oxygen, which can later combine with hydrogen to make water. That very same supernova also makes sodium, potassium, magnesium, chlorine, sulfur etc. so you end up with all the elements for making a bunch of different salts. Ask physicists why supernova does this sort of packaging.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Aah, so that’s what’s holding back my spontaneous adventures. I need to upgrade to a bigger account. My 35 cents need some room to breathe.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

My bank account seems to be pretty big. No matter how much money I throw in there, I never seem to run out of space. As far as I’m concerned, it’s infinite.

I guess, eventually there will be some sort of limitation and the bank gives you a call to tell you that this is a personal account not meant for managing the cash flow of an entire country. Until then, we’re all good, and I’m going to think my account is infinite.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yay! It’s the news season of the Shit Show. The previous season finale was absolutely breathtaking, so I have high hopes for the coming episodes. 🍿

They had proper equipment.

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[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Let me introduce you to the concept of vapor pressure. The volatility of a material depends on the temperature. Even cold water will still evaporate slowly. Instead is being a binary things, the vapor pressure will increase gradually as the temperature increases.

This means, that you can empty a glass of water by just waiting. You don’t even need to boil the water to make it evaporate. It’s already evaporating very slowly, even in room temperature.

Therefore, raw milk straight from the udder, is also evaporated milk.

Obviously Netfilx wants to tell the stock holders how many “new subscribers” they have every quarter. Nobody stopped to think what those numbers actually mean.

Well if you can’t use explosives, I suggest you soak the carcass with gasoline and light it up using a minigun. That should be American enough.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago

Winamp source code was published on github, but the license said you can’t fork or share the code. Such a license isn’t compatible with github, which is all about forking and sharing.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Based on the article, this is a train wreck of cosmic proportions. My guess is, the CEO panicked and went into damage mitigation mode.

Sounds like they’re trying to put out a titanium fire using only a bucket of water. What could go wrong.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, those services can be really expensive, so justifying expenses like that might be hard in a small project.

 

While I was in the shower, I thought of a brilliant idea! Let’s trigger several smaller volcanic eruptions that release a semi-controlled amount of volcanic ash into other atmosphere. That will cool down the atmosphere, which should buy us some time to fix our carbon emissions.

Then I realized, that doing so would block visible light. Plants need the light to grow, and we need the plants to breathe and eat. Obviously, this is not going to be a long term solution. Oh, and how do you even make sure the volcanic eruption doesn’t spiral out of control and suddenly spew out 50 times the ash we were aiming for. Oh, and volcanoes also spew CO2 and even nastier gases, so… It sounded so good while I was still in the shower. The more I think about it, the worse it gets.

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