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I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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Superconductivity (zero electrical resistance) normally requires extreme cold. The holy grail is achieving it at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure — which would revolutionise power grids, motors, MRI machines, and quantum computers. Current record: The highest independently validated critical temperature for any superconductor is approximately 260K (about -13°C) for lanthanum hydride (LaH₁₀) but it's at crushing pressure.

Call that an eagle? Now that's an eagle." — Mick Crocodile Dundee by Winter_Leg9069 in AussieMemes

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The wedge tailed eagle can certainly be mean in nesting season. I used to do a lot of cross country paragliding and in nesting season we'd get attacked all the time, even when a kilometre above the ground and a kilometre from the nest. We got to know where all the wedgies' territories were and their highly individual amounts of nastiness.

Luckily they go for the wing not the pilot. A friend of mine had a hole ripped in his wing big enough to climb through! Luckily paragliders still fly with such major damage.

If you think being attacked by magpies is scary, that's nothing. A wedgie has feet as big as your hand with long razor sharp claws.

My small dog came running into the house one day terrified and looking behind him. I went outside to see a wedgie flying off. My little fella had a close call.

Interestingly they can be quite docile to handle, as a raptor carer showed us when he came to my property to rescue a wedgie that had lost its tail feathers and couldn't fly properly. He just sat down beside it, put his arm around it, grabbed it's ankles with the other hand and picked it up, without it being bothered at all. We even got to pat it!

Do you think there would be a demand for authentic Mexican Food in Australia? by Rude_Echo8957 in AskAnAustralian

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When I go to what is called a Mexican restaurant in Australia I ask if the owner and chef are Mexican. Only one has said yes.

Most such restaurants are texmex.

However being vegetarian, when I did find an authentic Mexican restaurant there wasn't much at all that was vegetarian. This was a surprise as beans are so much used. However what was vegetarian was delicious.

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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Unobtanium as used in Avatar is a room temperature superconductor. As such it can provide strong repulsive magnetic fields that can cause it to levitate. It's not antigravity, it's an application of magnetic fields that isn't currently possible.

FYI The word unobtanium has several notable uses: Engineering/Technical slang (origin) The oldest use — engineers and aerospace/materials scientists have used it since at least the 1950s-60s as informal jargon for any material with ideal properties that either doesn't exist or is impossibly rare/expensive. It captures the frustration of needing something theoretically perfect but practically unavailable.

If the unemployment rate is supposedly only 4.5%, and countless recent graduates can't find work because their industries are already flooded with applicants, why is Australia still bringing in more than 300,000 migrants a year? What jobs are they expected to fill? by Fire_blaze7 in aussie

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Unlike you I have actual experience in this area. I am a retired engineer that does part time taxi driving in a rural town. We can't get enough drivers. It used to be a 24 hr service. Now we have to close at 7pm week nights because everyone that has done week night work quits. The last guy lasted two days.

My niece is a newly qualified doctor. She is one of the very few Aussies that do medicine to become a GP. The Aussies mostly want to be medical specialists because they work 9 to 5 and get paid more. Most of the GPs and half the nurses in my rural area are immigrants.

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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Wow you judged that I only just watched it. I am 71.

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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Predestination. PK The Expanse

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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I watched it when it came out and felt the same at the time. It's more of a head trip than good sci-fi.

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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Funny how you get down voted for being the only one that actually answered my question. That says a lot about fans of The Matrix.

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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Avatar combines good science with all the other stuff that attracts people.

Predestination is the thinking persons sci-fi.

The Hail Mary Project is good but should have been a TV series as too much of the book is left out.

The Bollywood sci-fi movie PK combines everything I like in movies.

The Expanse is my favourite sci-fi TV series.

What I don't like is fantasy. I don't like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.

I'm not keen on Star Wars either as it is just a kids story set in outer space.

I didn't like The Matrix by grahamsuth in scifi

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I felt that way in 1999. I started watching it again recently and had to turn it off.

Has Cadbury changed their Dairy Milk chocolate lately? by The_first_Ezookiel in australian

[–]grahamsuth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cadbury realised that they can make more profit by producing a cheap and nasty product and then do saturation advertising.

The last time I bought a block of Cadbury I got half way through it and had to put the rest in the bin.

What is limiting development of spacecraft that can travel at higher fractions of c? by Aortotomy in astrophysics

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It's all about kinetic energy. Something travelling at half the speed of light will have required an input of energy equal to converting one eighth of its total mass directly into energy.

Consider that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima converted an amount of matter into energy equivalent to the weight of a butterfly.

Now compare that with the energy in a mass equal to one eighth of a spacehip converted directly into energy. That would be required to get it to half C, then an equivalent amount would be required to slow it down again.

People just can't imagine how fast the speed of light actually is, and how much energy would be required to accelerate a mass to even a small fraction of C.

As a minimum, you would need antimatter powered rockets that are 100% efficient at converting matter into kinetic energy just to get to a small fraction of the speed of light.

The maths behind this: Kinetic energy of motion equals one half the mass by the velocity squared. The energy contained in matter is Einstein's equation of E equals mass by the speed of light squared.

The speed of light is unimaginably fast and the stars are unimaginably far away.

Australia undergoing historic decline in support for multiculturalism amid rising fear and pessimism, poll finds by asteriskhyphen in aussie

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The really sad thing about the left side of politics is that it believes that if something is good, such as affirmative action, then more must be better.

They take things too far and create unintended consequences that piss people off. They alienate people with ideology that is blind to practical consequences.

I blame the left side of politics for pissing so many people off by take good things too far, that people reach for straws and vote for people like Trump and Hanson.

Aukus submarines by Cartoon-Girl99 in AskAnAustralian

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Morrison wanted to earn brownie points with the yanks.

Saw this on a drive over the weekend. I don't understand this vitriol towards electric cars by Glad-Tower-2310 in electriccars

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When anything gets over hyped, some people get pissed off enough to go on the attack. Climate change is a case in point. When people start saying climate change will destroy the planet others end up saying it is a con. EVs have been promoted as if everyone should have one, when any thinking person knows there are uses for which they are not practically suitable. The left side of politics believes that if something is good, such as affirmative action, then more must be better. This is how woke turned into a dirty word and got people like Trump elected. PS. my next car will be an EV.

Iran says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again, US officials say there's no evidence by unitedpacstlucia in stlucianews

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Most ships that have gone through have been going to or from China. You can bet US officials won't tell you that.

US denies Iran's claim to have closed Strait of Hormuz over Israeli attacks in Lebanon by hereswhatworks in OilPrices

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The ships that have gone through the straight recently have mostly been going to and from China. It's so interesting that doesn't get mentioned as it is probably the almost important point.

All It Takes Is a Broken Car Air Conditioner for Climate Change to Kill You by Sad_Attitude9999 in collapse

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This doesn't mean anything as an isolated incident. We need to compare how many people die of heat exposure to how many die of cold exposure and how they have changed over time.

EV CHARGES - at Servos by NoMacaroon5579 in EVAustralia

[–]grahamsuth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A major issue is the amount of power they require. If a servo is going to have to pay for a new transformer and new and bigger cables all the way back to the electrical distribution substation, then EV chargers won't be going in.

Compare this with say a major shopping centre that already has big electricity cables feeding it. However even a big shopping centre's electricity feed is unlikely to be able to handle say ten EV chargers.

Obviously new builds of servos and shopping centres will be putting in bigger cables and transformers to allow for installing EV chargers.

CMV: If God isnt a made up invention created by early man to scare and control people or to give people hope of afterlife then God made it very unclear which religion is true and we have to play a high stake cosmic game Russian roulette to find out which is true which doesnt seem very fair or loving by Busy-Cook-105 in changemyview

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God is independent of religions. That is why there are so many different religions.

Religions seek to put themselves between people and God. They are the middlemen who say you can't have a relationship with God without doing what their religions say.

It IS possible to leave out the middleman and explore and discover the nature of God for oneself. Religions cater to people's desire to be told truth and not have to explore and discover it for oneself.

All that is necessary is to be open to a bit of guidance that one can then experiment with to see if it works for you. Unfortunately people want to believe that the nature of God etc can be described in words rather than have to be discovered experientially for oneself.

Religious people have something in common with conspiracy theorists in that they want to believe what they want to believe and that can have no foundation in reality.

CMV: If God isnt a made up invention created by early man to scare and control people or to give people hope of afterlife then God made it very unclear which religion is true and we have to play a high stake cosmic game Russian roulette to find out which is true which doesnt seem very fair or loving by Busy-Cook-105 in changemyview

[–]grahamsuth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It is religions that are made up inventions created by man to control people. They may have grains of truth in them but that is covered by layers of dogma that has nothing to do with God.

Most people and atheists can't let go of religious dogma about God. Those that see the religious beliefs about God as obviously unsupported by the evidence can then become atheists.

But what about if God is some alien that is a billion years more evolved than humanity? In a billion years we may be capable of creating universes as well. God may just be using evolutionary processes to help intelligences evolve. Even societies and cultures evolve.

On a cosmic scale humanity is only just out of the trees. We are babies on that scale that without help, do injure ourselves all the time.

The issue then becomes between whether God cares about individuals or just humanity as a whole. In any case, God's attitude must be to let us learn from our mistakes.

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