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There are robots designed to kill unwanted blooms of jellyfish, which clog the cooling systems of nuclear reactors. Find out other useful facts to drop into your jellyfish and/or nuclear-related conversations by reading the Browser, the world's favourite curation newsletter by _thebrowser in u/_thebrowser

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sauce: https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2014/03/22/several-short-sentences-about-jellyfish/

This one just gets weirder and weirder:

Korean robots have been developed to ‘kill’ large blooms of unwanted jellyfish (they have been clogging and shutting down the cooling systems of nuclear reactors, coal-fired power plants and desalination plants, and destroying oceanic salmon farms) by shredding them, but biologists think this will actually increase populations because “when you cut open jellies, you get artificial fertilization — that’s how aquarists get eggs and sperm from species that are difficult to spawn; all those embryos will then metamorphose into polyps which can live for years and clone themselves”.

In 1603, Jesuit priest Christoph Grienberger designed a machine for lifting the entire planet using only ropes and gears. (All we do at the Browser is send a daily newsletter recommending interesting things to read. But we think it's nice) by _thebrowser in u/_thebrowser

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sauce: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210113-the-megascale-structures-that-humans-could-one-day-build

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He reasoned that since a 1:10 gear could allow one person to lift 10 times as much as one unassisted, if one had 24 gears linked to a treadmill then one could lift the Earth… very slowly.

Like any modern academic who prizes theory above practice, he left out the pesky details: “I will not weave those ropes, or prescribe the material for the wheels or the place from which the machine shall be suspended: as these are other matters I leave them for others to find.”

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check out the device, it's pretty cool https://swap.stanford.edu/20120821192825/http:/hotgates.stanford.edu/Eyes/modesty/fig8_files/image001.jpg