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    Comment #49223509

    all the forks in the world won't have widevine support only Firefox is left which is fine by me

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    Comment #49221794

    go read about what they are doing to people in the Navy over in Iran * https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran... their families had to throw a huge protest no…

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    Comment #49221682

    thirty-eight hour ping time, dang 3 AU per year ~ 300 million miles

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    Comment #49221582

    my idea "Space Roombas" little robots that go around knocking debris below LEO so they burn up like a game of air-hockey then they go back and dock to their charging satellite only…

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    Comment #49216272

    wasn't demanding, just wanted to hear what your own logic was instead but it's pointless to go any further I guess as it's getting outside science the weak anthropic principle can'…

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    Comment #49214848

    As fitting symbolism it would be to leave a hole next to the whitehouse, we all know what the supremecourt is gonna do I would like to see whatever is left collapsed like they do w…

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    Comment #49214175

    imagine what US real numbers are, the published numbers have to be completely cooked * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2026-08-07/us-emplo...

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    Comment #49214009

    you don't think there is even single-cell life anywhere else but Earth? why would Earth be that incredibly unique? it's even plausible Earth was accidentally seeded by panspermia (…

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    Comment #49213916

    if they used X-Rays for that, why does Event Horizon Telescope use millimeter waves?

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    Comment #49213001

    single-cell "life" can be so simple that scientists can create it in a lab "SpudCell" * https://www.science.org/content/article/lab-created-spudcell... somewhere among 2 TRILLION p…

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    Comment #49210900

    the Great Oxidation Event caused all kinds of crazy stress = crazy mutations/adaptations where one eventually started our path * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event…

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    Comment #49210857

    There is likely simple basic life as advanced as bacteria around the universe But high level life was likely a series of complex accidents that is not reproducible or would be radi…

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    Comment #49210736

    what's really going to blow your mind is our solar system looked completely different several times with different proto-planets and Earth/Moon is likely made from remnants of thos…

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    Comment #49209418

    heh, well, 275 years ago Benjamin Franklin was messing around with something he didn't truly understand but named a "battery" and three centuries later we are launching and parking…

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    Comment #49209394

    November can't come soon enough, this administration is beyond disgusting They are literally a non-stop crime-spree against humanity But if the Dems don't get 52 in the Senate abso…

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    Comment #49202723

    astrophysics is really making some remarkable leaps this decade ("Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research" sounds so wonderfully Star Trek doesn't it)

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    Comment #49202648

    people who can do this stuff are super-smartypants but reminds me how we're going to find out on an industrial level when the Saudis give China some nvidia chips they were grifted …

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    Comment #49200719

    oooh now I get the meme posts with the duct-taping phone to hand visiting Paris

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    Comment #49199983

    Roman vs JWST comparison * https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14942/ launch info * https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6983/ btw what's fascinating to me is that while JWST relies …

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    Comment #49199123

    If I remember correctly, Stephen Hawking had to do some serious math in the 1970s to convince himself a tiny black hole was not hiding in our Sun I think there's a PBS Space Time o…

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    Comment #49196880

    btw this is what IC chips looked like during Apollo * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_ci...

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    Comment #49196649

    -cough- Shizuku + ShizuTools pseudo-root via system-user * https://github.com/timschneeb/awesome-shizuku * https://github.com/legendsayantan/ShizuTools * https://github.com/RikkaAp…

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    Comment #49196549

    well not at the current level of technology they don't even know how to keep astronauts from going blind or losing muscle function space and space travel really really wants to kil…