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What a time to be alive. Props for Varda jumping on it. If/when this works out would love to see them manufacture it in space.
Why?
This makes me extremely bullish about Varda Space, they have engineers of high quality and expertise that they could do a decent replication very quickly (if they got access to raw materials earlier, they might have been first to do so, comparable with the Chinese Groups) while working on their off time (from what I’ve seen of their twitter) and not a single big academic lab has managed to complete any sort of replic…
It's really disappointing that no other US lab has engaged with the public in the same manner. Regardless of the outcome, I think seeing things get built and experimented with in mostly real-time is a massive source of inspiration.
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I don't understand why she would be like this. Why would anyone hold back the production process for a material that could change humanity forever?
Why? Simple, there's lots of mentally ill people on this planet. Anime profile pictures are usualy a redflag. These kind of people should only be ignored since they never want to cooperate.
A lot of them are simply trans and tired of dealing with constant harassment campaigns directed towards their gender identity. Of course they're wary about cooperations with people they don't intimately trust.
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Yes and no. You still need access to red phosphorous which is not all that easy to get hold of.
the 1000 C furnace is nothing to sneeze at either.
[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1000-Degree-High-temp...
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Don’t forget the DEA. The reason the Varda team even took this long is because they couldn’t get red phosphorus.
You just have to be registered / approved with the DEA — most labs are and can freely order phosphorus and almost other chemicals with no further burden. Seems like Varda didn’t have any prior use for restricted chemicals so they hadn’t registered yet, a not uncommon situation that will be quickly resolved for their next attempts I’m sure.
How is this different than a tiny magnetized piece of iron ?
Are they saying this piece showing in the video will always float the same way regardless of orientation ?
Also would this effect still work with an electromagnet ?
Nitter: https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip/status/1687405505604734978#...
My online life has been way less stressful since I both deleted my Twitter account, and set up my own Nitter instance. Same goes for Reddit.
As for Reddit, is there another frontend?
Can someone ELI43 what benefits a shaving of metal dancing in a beaker can do for the world? And will this be like my 90% efficient solar panels that I'm still waiting for?
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This, its utterly shameful. Hot takes here, hot takes there, skepticism here, tell people to calm down there. Yet not a single replication! China has gone through multiple failed and successful replications so far. And the first US replication is from an amateur. If LK-99 works out, expect some congressmen to use this as a bludgeoning tool against the state of US public science.
> If LK-99 works out, expect some congressmen to use this as a bludgeoning tool against the state of US public science. I hope for the same here in Germany. It's way past time we actually deal with the sorry state of science funding and academia in general across the Western world.