They must be thinking of this person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b-wTJ8x3E

I have a grain of crack here for those who are interested.

You don’t need to do many calculations to see that the AI has gone slightly wrong. Since water covers roughly twice as much of the Earth’s surface as land does, lowering the oceans 1 inch should raise the land by about 2 inches, assuming that the volume of dirt isn’t changed by the process of moving it.

More precisely: Area of the oceans = 361,000,000 km²
1 inch = 2.54cm = 0.0000254 km
Volume of dirt = 361000000 * 0.0000254 = 9169.4 km³
Area of land on Earth = 149,000,000 km²
Height of dirt spread over land = 9169.4 / 149000000 = 0.0000615 km = 6.15 cm = 2.4 inches

Not going to say how many Everests as estimates for the volume of Everest seem to be all over the place. But the point stands that it’s a huge amount of material making the idea somewhat impractical.

we have assumed that Rex is comprised of a uniform nucleon fluid, with protons, neutrons and electrons in an idealised 1:8:1 ratio

This is how the author is estimating it, they are assuming 1/9th of the mass is protons. No idea how good that assumption is though, there is a source which doesn’t look the most convincing

After reading I realised that this proposal isn’t a single new element for all neutron stars, but a separate new entry on the table for every individual neutron star in existence, unless there are two that happen to have the exact same number of protons which is unlikely. Sounds good to me

“Attraction” seems close. Theme parks and water parks are relatively modern inventions which might be why the etymology isn’t really helping. I’m curious what you mean when you say park is poisoned though?

Off topic but I think the lyric is bathroom floor, bathroom door could turn it into a slightly different story

This was my first thought as well, sadly I’m probably not clever enough to fully appreciate and understand any of these people. If I’m not allowed to transfer my place then at least I can have some fun telling Da Vinci about planes and stuff

Who else has done exactly this before on Gilly in Kerbal Space Program?

Strange how much higher the top one, 123456, is than the others, and how the most popular ones with repeating numbers also have 6 digits. Why do people like 6 digits so much more than 5 or 7?

Unfortunately yes. I’ve met people who ask chatgpt about absolutely everything such as what to have for dinner. It’s a bit sad honestly

This is interesting because the most “realistic” (i.e. still not realistic) depictions of time travel in fiction involve travelling through a singularity or wormhole. So you probably have to be in space to start with, but also both ends of the wormhole have mass so they can be orbiting a planet or star and stay within a stable distance of it. It solves this particular problem (just leaving the other usual problem of causality!) It also proves your point since it does allow travelling in space, in fact it allows travelling faster than light.

I think the converse is true as well, that if faster than light travel is possible then time travel must be possible, at least if you take relativity at face value. As others have pointed out there’s no universal reference frame, and for any journey that is faster than light in one reference frame, there is another frame in which the journey goes backwards in time.

This post has a list of casual communities which might help: https://lemmy.world/post/2216085

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodstein's_theorem

Have to close that one now (first comment doesn’t count cos it’s in quotes) :)

Not sure exactly what the question is but I’m fairly sure the answer is yes. 😀 Anyone can start a Lemmy/Mastodon instance and anyone can create new software that federates with it.

Very cool! I’m still impressed by seeing anything 3D in a browser even though I know it’s been possible for a while.

My understanding is that this headline has been pretty much accepted as official by biologists for some time now, to the point where “non-avian dinosaurs” has become a common term for the extinct animals. So it’s totally correct to say things like “I’m just going to the park to feed the dinosaurs”

Feddit UK post about this

The admins are hopeful at the moment that we will be able to comply without too much trouble

Clearly the artist believes in the axiom of choice

Not an expert but I’d guess that is Tycho crater, and the stripes are called its ray system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_system