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As I understand it, Bose-Einstein condensates get more stable as they get larger. Why are quantum computer developers not making their qubits out of them?

Starship cans are pathetically inadequate to support even a Mars base, never mind a Mars colony.

Translating it back to C or C++ afterward, it would be equally as safe, and easier to deploy.

It is common to make fun of orbital solar power projects, for good reasons. Management consulting companies love getting asked to analyze orbital solar, because they get to dust of…

Curiously, though, we don't really know it is coded in DNA. Michael Levin has been discovering lately that biology is more complicated than we thought. His YT videos are mind-boggl…

Strontium-90 has advantages. At density 2.6 vs 12, you can afford to loft more of it to compensate for its 28y half-life, and still come out ahead provided you can dispose of the e…

Arrayed as a thin film on a substrate, you can use the kinetic energy of the alpha particles directly for thrust. The substrate will need to dissipate some heat from nuclei emitted…

Those use strontium-90, which decays much faster than americium-241. That makes it hotter, at first, but its useful life is less. Being more than 4x less dense, you might carry eno…

Which C compiler doesn't pack bitfields? Anything on x86 or ARM is bound by the ABI to pack in a standard and link-compatible way. Seems there would only be a problem on some propr…

It is much worse than just the three extra test-and-branch operations, because they will be serialized through one ALU.

The doesn't say whether the C-145As built in Poland for the US Air Force still had the fault, or the SkyTrucks built until 2019. We might guess that since the fault wasn't in the p…

After scrutiny this seems to be "Coroutines and Effects" in, particularly, Rust.

Not if dengue is an urban phenomenon.

I always wonder which of these smaller sauropods are really just juveniles. Why don't we find any juveniles of the big ones?

Doesn't say what it is or how it is imagined to work. Is there an assumption the dust is all negatively-charged? Or positively? Or mixed?

Is the language statically-typed? If not, why not?

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Right-wing radio is heavily subsidized by right-wing institutions funded by the billionaires we all know about. It is happy to repeat lies, without shame, at length until they are …

People were navigating out of sight of land, and reached Australia tens of thousands of years before this. They might have reached North America, too. Anyway we know people got the…

We know Australia was already occupied at least 40kya, and maybe 60kya, and they can only have got there by sailing out of sight of land, even when sea levels were at their lowest …

Poor build quality, unreliability, and extremely high repair costs keep away another group. If you have a Tesla, get the suspension checked at least twice a year, and after hitting…

They always call these "floating" gardens, but AFAICT they are always firmly attached to the bottom. What they are more like is flooded raised beds. The illustration in the article…

This all falls under "it is possible to kill yourself by stupidity", with nothing specific to powering appliances from a battery/inverter. People who take the initiative to set up …

There is no hint of passion. It is just formulaic decoration. The only interest for viewers would be in the clothing styles, which would track trends in Rome, and so need to be pai…

The extension cords mentioned are all interior-to-interior. There is no magickal difference between an extension-cord wire and a like-gauge Romex wire. The former bends easier. The…