https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Piantanida

This guy was in a remote controlled, parachute equipped gondola at 17km altitude wearing a pressurized suite. His suit broke and even though the emergency descent of the gondola was immediately activated to descend safely, he later died from embolism (bubbles forming in the blood because of rapidly decreasing pressure). Passenger jets cruise at about 11km so i gather it would be similar.

OpenWRT does not use liblzma or systemd so i think that one is pretty safe. I would also be surprised if Android included OpenSSH server binaries in that way.

There has been some fusor research going on for decades. The issue that killed that direction of fusion research was ultimately that the electrons do not behave as the initial simple models suggested and in the real world the power loss from the fast electrons is just too big for any reasonably sized device to allow for self sustaining fusion.

that sounds almost exactly like the Reichsbürger in Germany. They also claim the current German state is actually just a corporation and the laws of the German empire are somehow still applicable. They also create their own passports. And of course they are deeply interconnected with Neo-nazis.

you mean turing complete?

click on the link pls

“ἰχθύς” is the ancient greek word for “fish” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ΙΧΘΥΣ

yes indeed. i keep being confused how email can still suck so much sometimes when it had decades to mature.

yeah this is a real pet peeve of mine.

In German many people, web mailers and also sometimes even email software use “AW:” (short for AntWort) instead of “Re:” and then some of them don’t even recognize the existence of a previous “AW:” or “Re:” giving you such wondrous email subjects as: “AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: AW: Re: AW: Re: really important subject” 🤦

you h2e it?

extending a bit on @mustbe3to20signs’ answer:

here is a nice article about the total number of individual T Rexes that ever lived: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/science/tyrannosaurus-rex-population.html

If the 20,000 number [of concurrently alive individuals] is correct, over the 2.4 million years that T. rex walked the Earth, there would have been a total of some 2.5 billion adults that ever lived.

This is for a single species of dinosaur (T. Rex)!

Next comes the question of how likely it is that a dead T. Rex leaves a skeleton that will be preserved up until our time. Fossilization requires special conditions to be present for many years following the death of the animal, otherwise the skeleton will not be recognizable anymore, after just a relatively short time (as is the case with skeletons in cemeteries for instance where you would expect decomposition to soil within a couple hundred years). Here the article has another huge number:

Only about one out of every 80 million T. Rexes that ever existed was fossilized

Those odds lie somewhere between the chance of a human being bitten by a snake and then dying from it and the chance of winning the lottery. So kind of low, but given the number of T. Rexes that lived it’s still a respectable chance.

But what about other large dinosaurs? (ignoring all species that are still around like birds and crocodiles here). If you extrapolate a little bit for the total number of dinosaur species you will soon notice that the likely number of dinosaurs that walked the earth is just so huge it boggles the mind.

from Wikipedia:

In 2016, the estimated number of dinosaur species that existed in the Mesozoic was 1,543–2,468.[25][26]

Lets round that to a nice 2000 species and assume all of those had at least as many individuals as the apex predator T. Rex (most species actually weren’t predators so their numbers would have been larger). So we get a number of 5 trillion adult dinosaurs ever. Multiply with the chance of fossilization (simplifying here by assuming the chance is the same for all species which is probably far off but hopefully we are still in the right order of magnitude).: 62500 adult fossilized individuals among all dinosaurs that lived in the Mesozoic assuming they had all very small population numbers, like the T. Rex. If you assume larger populations, like would be expected for herbivores, you could easily get numbers that are 1000 times higher, but the uncertainty is pretty high anyway.

Looking at the price per kWh for commercial batteries tells me that we are seeing the battery revolution right now.

Graphene is already commercially used in some applications:

There are already very effective cures for some types of cancer (note that the differences between the many types of cancer can be huge and so the effort and time needed to create cures will also be very different. some treatments also are effective but not completely understood yet, like for bladder cancer)

Nuclear fusion devices are commercially used in material analysis (mostly in the semiconductor industry and in ore processing). There are different types in use – some even use thermonuclear fusion on a small scale.

It all seems like super crazy superconductor level tech until it becomes mundane and part of peoples lives … then we stop noticing how amazing it really is.

woah this is awesome!

maglevs need classical wheel systems anyway because there might be a power outage, so simply having wheels that are compatible with the local rail system is a brilliant idea.

add in a tiny propulsion system so they can use the normal tracks at low speed without the help of the maglev tracks and you can sort of blend the two systems together in critical locations like switches and train stations.