BlushedPotatoPlayers

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It depends... Are we speaking about keeping only tall blonde kids? Or aborting a fetus with 95% Down syndrome? Angelman's? Some other even worse? Stopping a possibility fatal pregnancy? Where do you put the line?

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So... Is this Aladeen news or Aladeen news?

Yes, I just wrote about that above. It's just the difference in cost between the two. How many large space observatories were there altogether? In the order of dozens maybe?

I tried that as well, but for me it was like being 10 again: -you meet the bandits -I, the lvl1 player kill them all -OK -I just remembered my party had a necromancer, raise the corpses -sure thing -I march around with my undead army and murder everyone who is in my way -This game is about creativity and cooperation -Not today -OK

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, and we are already doing that, VLBI uses dozens of telescopes, each of them larger that we could sensibly launch to space

We could, but it's way more expensive. There was a ~10m dish added to space VLBI, but the ground stations are several times larger, up to a few 100m. And you need dish size for sensitivity: in interferometry the largest distance between two telescopes gives the size of the synthetic instrument, but the size of the individual dishes fills up the detector.

Also, if something breaks it's almost impossible to fix in space.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Just to add, radio telescopes easily have diameters of several 10 to several 100 meters, you won't put that easily in space. And even if you do, maybe one, not tens of them. And these are often used in network as well for interferometry to have higher spatial resolution, so that would be gone as well.

I checked it, it's not :)

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lots of astronomical objects have names, but somehow it's asteroids and maybe craters that really got the naming hype, there are hundreds of them named after scientists, poets, the discoverer's teacher, you name it. It's a nice custom.

Disclaimer: I might be slightly biased, as I proposed my wife with naming one of them (asteroid, I mean).

Did you spot the capybara?

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not if you already don't look at the keyboard while typing, plus you use multiple layouts

These are nice, but on the other hand there's the case where you have a limited time slot somewhere and windows randomly decides that it's time to update, pop up a window to upload your data to "the cloud", reboot, and bang, you're f*cked.

 

Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?

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