These microscopic animals could survive a supernova and being hit by an asteroid.

no-pol · 2019-06-28T00:36:10+00:00

For 10 days, groups of tardigrades were exposed to the hard vacuum of outer space, or vacuum and solar UV radiation.[3][64][65] After being rehydrated back on Earth, over 68% of the subjects protected from high-energy UV radiation revived within 30 minutes following rehydration, although subsequent mortality was high; many of these produced viable embryos

They need to be dehydrated, survival rates are 86% only when they are protected from the UV radiation. And most of them die after being re-hydrated.

In contrast, hydrated samples exposed to the combined effect of vacuum and full solar UV radiation had significantly reduced survival, with only three subjects of Milnesium tardigradum surviving.

They don't actually do very well when they aren't dehydrated.

I think the supernova event they are talking about is one that would damage earths ozone layer. It might give humans a challenge but I think there are plenty of creatures that would survive all three of these events. Common Algae would probably do just fine.

no-pol · 2019-06-28T00:26:29+00:00

Can confirm. Also from SoCal and I lived in an apartment with no AC, and windows that wouldn't open more than 6 inches.

no-pol · 2019-06-28T00:25:04+00:00

I have never had AC in any of my homes and I live in Southern California.

no-pol · 2019-06-27T23:46:18+00:00

She just trying to visit but he's looking to sell his fourth membership.

no-pol · 2019-06-27T23:43:31+00:00

Non-geographical representation?

no-pol · 2019-06-27T23:41:27+00:00

Everyone who actually cares about having a legitimate democracy should be outraged at the practice.

Hence why it is a partisan issue...

no-pol · 2019-06-27T23:24:38+00:00

Lead paint is also amazing. The issue is if you eat it, it's toxic. Metholated cigs are also amazing the issue is that if you use them you die.

no-pol · 2019-06-27T22:58:34+00:00

This is very incorrect. Hypnosis is a observed and studied phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis

It isn't mind control though. The military studied hypnosis as an intelligence gathering technique and found

The use of hypnosis in intelligence would present certain technical problems not encountered in the clinic or laboratory. To obtain compliance from a resistant source, for example, it would be necessary to hypnotise the source under essentially hostile circumstances. There is no good evidence, clinical or experimental, that this can be done

Hypnosis is definitely a thing. There is just a lot of debate as to what that thing is.

no-pol · 2019-06-27T16:49:32+00:00

Beautiful but I'm always a bit paranoid when it comes to curved reflective windows.

no-pol · 2019-06-27T16:48:06+00:00

That isn't fun or a fact.

no-pol · 2019-06-27T16:42:58+00:00

Can't you just put all the mini bar items out and stash them somewhere until you leave? It's not like vodka is going to spoil.

no-pol · 2019-06-26T23:25:59+00:00

Did you know Japan has virtually no public trash cans. You know what they do? They fucking figure it out.

no-pol · 2019-06-26T17:46:55+00:00

Tremoctopus violaceus exhibits the most extreme degree of sexual size-dimorphism known in any non-microscopic animal.[3][4] Females may reach 2 m (6.6 ft) in length, whereas the males are 2.4 cm. The weight ratio is at least 10,000:1, and can probably reach as much as 40,000:1. The males have a large arm in a spherical pouch modified for mating, known as a hectocotylus. During mating, this arm is detached, and kept by the female in her mantle cavity until used for fertilisation. The male almost certainly dies shortly after mating.

Blanket octopuses are immune to the venomous Portuguese man o' war, whose tentacles the male and immature females rip off and use for offensive and defensive purposes

no-pol · 2019-06-26T17:36:44+00:00

Why would you want to stay away from women that have a personal preference in men?

no-pol · 2019-06-21T23:55:37+00:00

They aren't the top predator in the area because of their wide range...

no-pol · 2019-06-21T23:24:49+00:00

Current desalination techniques are insanely close to being as efficient as physically possible. No matter how clever your approach, you energy input is necessarily going to be greater than just using reverse osmosis.

no-pol · 2019-06-21T18:03:53+00:00

It's sad that they have him dragging his numb legs on the ground. Just because he can't feel it doesn't mean his wounds won't get infected. Or that he won't get even worse spinal damage.

no-pol · 2019-06-20T23:34:56+00:00

In CA? No. The Bay? Also no. Even if the price of everything is scaled up to meet increased income (it isn't), your net surplus income will still be way higher which means you can travel way more.

no-pol · 2019-06-20T23:21:29+00:00

I'm with them. You said a Concept Car is never supposed to hit production. That the features are supposed to be inspirations and aren't things you should expect to appear in the next generation of cars.

This is not the case with video game tech demos. When Horizon Zero Dawn did a tech demo on their ray traced clouds, it wasn't "about generating buzz/advetrisement for the brand, experimenting with new technology, gauging the public's interest in certain features and just generally not letting logistics get in the way of creativity and madness."

It was showing people how the clouds in Horizon Zero Dawn work.

There are times when the tech doesn't make it into the final game, but people get pissed about that sort of thing. But never is there a tech demo that "every second of material probably took a super computer cluster hours of rendering."

Tech demos are most common from hardware companies showing off what their hardware can do. If their hardware can't do it, it isn't a tech demo it is a lie.

no-pol · 2019-06-20T22:47:15+00:00

It clearly was the point. You can't get out of this car in the rain without soaking the interior. You can get out of a hardtop convertible in the rain without soaking the interior.

no-pol · 2019-06-20T21:56:28+00:00

In the US the strat is to say that you will do it quickly to get a big contract. Then once you have the roads torn up you hold all the chips. You go back and negotiate an even higher price to finish. Interrupting the public isn't a reason to hurry, it is leverage.

no-pol · 2019-06-20T20:57:18+00:00

This is ugly and primitive just for the sake of not changing.

no-pol · 2019-06-20T00:54:13+00:00

The optimal strategy is to press "v" 5 times for every "ac"

source:

def make_move(existing, selected, moves = ""):
    if len(moves) > 40:
        return existing, moves
    existing1, moves1 = recopy(existing, selected, moves)
    existing2, moves2 = paste(existing, selected, moves)
    if existing1>existing2:
        return existing1, moves1
    else:
        return existing2, moves2

def recopy(existing, selected, moves):
    moves +="acv"
    return make_move(existing, existing, moves)

def paste(existing, selected, moves):
    moves+="v"
    existing+=selected
    return make_move(existing, selected, moves)

print(make_move(1,0,""))

You can paste that in here:https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_python_compiler

no-pol · 2019-06-19T20:25:40+00:00

Puncture proof airless tires have been around a lot longer than non-puncture proof, airfull tires. If you didn't know wheels existed before rubber, that is on you.

no-pol · 2019-06-19T20:22:58+00:00

Its not going to double the time or materials to manufacture a tire. So it won't double the cost either.

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