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Although curiously, most processes theoretically capable of exposing large amounts of lunar mantle would likely generate a decent fraction of that heat just on their own merit.

It does feel disingenuous, but its also nothing new. Military research has always been the one of the primary driving forces behind critical technology. Commercial tech is vulnerab…

Cotton also shrinks when wet and has poor thermal properties - polymer blend fabrics perform better in the cold, and are lighter and cheaper than wool. Goretex is wonderful stuff, …

I'm just spitballing here, but I'd wager that the human toll required to evolve effective resistance to regular and prolonged asbestos exposure is more than most of us would be wil…

Unless you are pouring bat milk on your Cheerios, I'd reckon you're not going to be affected by that particular fun fact. The same can't be said for the legally acceptable portion …

Sure, but ensuring all mechanics everywhere have access to use PPE, and then enforcing its correct use is way less effective in practice than removing the hazardous material from t…

Since the cycle of stellar observation repeats each solar year, the observation would itself be a method of time keeping. One would need only to track the azimuth of a series of re…

More damning would be the perchlorates found in Martian soil, toxic to most Earth-plants, not to mention Earth-humans.

im not sure I want a lithe hunter stalking through my house, marking every surface and attacking everything that breathes. I much prefer my dopey dander machines that sleep on my c…

Found this: http://www.ipodlinux.org/stories/piezo I got an iPod for christmas. The ipodlinux project was one of the main reasons for my choice and so I started exploring the iPod …

Not an expert, but my read of the article was that he had code execution already, but needed to dump the bootloader so he could gain access to peripherals. You could no doubt pull …

Hmm... You can run different CTF environments i to a VM, wouldnt take much to stream input back and forth to both machines. I just saw another item featured on HN for piped keyboar…

We're all irrational actors, though. Various life events drive people towards drug use. It doesnt have to be a rational decision: a split second moment of desperation is all it tak…

To be perfectly clear, most addicts understand that their addiction is killing then, but caring about that pales in comparison to the addictive urge to continue using. It's not som…

As a person who lives in an area known to have Lyme, and as an avid hiker, it is not hard to do tick checks periodically. Ticks don't embed immediately, and generally there is a wi…

Also punching above my weight class here: isn't observation a function of time as well though, so a local observer would notice no difference in their perception of the passage of …

It is much more effective to do more with less. There will always be a need for air conditioning in some cases, but having 10 million single window units blasting walls of heat int…

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I read parent as looking for sources that provide access to hi-res satellite imaging, without them needing to provide access to their wallet.

Per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/ 80% of antibiotics produced in the US are funneled into agriculture.

Certainly not, but one wouldn't need to catch every satellite launch for space weapon- one or two would be enough evidence to go public and warrant further scrutiny. There are a nu…

Thats a long commute from the prehistoric Bristish Isles to the nearest Starbucks. I hope he bought in bulk.

It won't be permanent sequestration, though, or even necessarily long term. When these units are retired, their contained volume of CO2 will be reintroduced to the air, one way or …

You have highlighted the core basis of Foucault's Boomarang: it doesn't matter the target of oppresive technologies and practices. Sooner or later, their scope will be turned on yo…

https://xkcd.com/2758/ Another whimsical XKCD reference.