The technique is Selective Laser Melting. They are looking into using it for planes and rockets. The components are individually weaker than those made by traditional methods, but SLM means you can make complex shapes that would otherwise have to be welded together from smaller parts.Probably wouldn't be useful for planes but would open up jet power for all sorts of things its not feasible for now. How about a scooter?
Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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That argument would carry weight if the many municipal buildings that could be covered in solar panels were. I think very few building maintainers look at the cost vs benefit of solar and decide it's profitable. And that's with the subsidies that are common.
I'm hoping that as these rates climb:
this rates will drop:
There's also some argument that the US has really inefficient practices when it comes to solar panel installation, but I don't really know if this chart is true:
Cut The Price Of Solar In Half By Cutting Red Tape - Forbes
But if you were to modify the above chart by adjusting the drop in efficiency from it being on a roadway + the costs of it being on a roadway you'd see how stupid the idea is.
BTW I have a wacky scifi theory on the EM Drive aforementioned.
Awhile back I was brainstorming for a universe sim game I'll probably never get to make, idea being a sublight speed explore-the-galaxy kind of game where the galaxy would be simulated over large amounts of time.
When thinking about the tech tree I thought one of the discoveries could be a proving out of the holographic principle, and evidence that the entire universe is a simulation (which in this case would be true). With that in mind I started thinking of ways to exploit that.
One of the things I ran across is the Beckenstein limit or bound. This is an idea that only a finite amount of informational bits can be stored in a given area. I thought maybe approaching this bound in a simulated universe would cause the same sort of warping of spacetime that gravity produces.
So I thought it would be clever / fun to have advances in computing start to affect nearby space, maybe even decaying the orbits of planets.
Anyway, one of the ideas I had was for a drive that transmitted and displayed dense information to an area to create this warping effect.
The EM Drive could work in a similar way if the simulation's bits required to represent the clumped up resonating microwaves approaches the Beckenstein bound.
Bekenstein bound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holographic principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Awhile back I was brainstorming for a universe sim game I'll probably never get to make, idea being a sublight speed explore-the-galaxy kind of game where the galaxy would be simulated over large amounts of time.
When thinking about the tech tree I thought one of the discoveries could be a proving out of the holographic principle, and evidence that the entire universe is a simulation (which in this case would be true). With that in mind I started thinking of ways to exploit that.
One of the things I ran across is the Beckenstein limit or bound. This is an idea that only a finite amount of informational bits can be stored in a given area. I thought maybe approaching this bound in a simulated universe would cause the same sort of warping of spacetime that gravity produces.
So I thought it would be clever / fun to have advances in computing start to affect nearby space, maybe even decaying the orbits of planets.
Anyway, one of the ideas I had was for a drive that transmitted and displayed dense information to an area to create this warping effect.
The EM Drive could work in a similar way if the simulation's bits required to represent the clumped up resonating microwaves approaches the Beckenstein bound.
Bekenstein bound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holographic principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah they should have heated it up a bit first to dry it out - the water flashed to steam and "popped" the molten aluminium out.
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Sad day.
John Nash Jr. nobel laureate for economics, father of the Nash Equilibrium (which helped saved the world when the US and the Soviets strategists applied it to their models) on whom the movie "A Beautiful Mind" was based ondied in a car crash todayafter coming home from receiving the Abel Prize in Mathematics.
John Nash Jr. nobel laureate for economics, father of the Nash Equilibrium (which helped saved the world when the US and the Soviets strategists applied it to their models) on whom the movie "A Beautiful Mind" was based ondied in a car crash todayafter coming home from receiving the Abel Prize in Mathematics.
Even after he rose to fame--even after the movie---he kept producing major contributions to mathematics.BBC_sl said:
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I think a lot of people are hoping for some shenanigans like that to explain the EM Drive. It would really improve our understanding of our universe and add a useful technology.
interview with the inventor of it. He's clearly in "Please give me more funding!" mode, promising all kinds of solutions to different hot-button issues.
If this thing takes off, I hope we can see a working prototype in his lifetime. It's discouraging when you see inventors of incredibly powerful technology never live to see it coming to fruition.
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I'm curious as to how they work. You can get multifocal "artificial" lens replacements now, but they can cause some problems with vision like night glare. Plus, it's surgery and so there's always a chance something goes wrong, more so if you are short-sighted as the risk of damaging your retina when removing your natural lens is higher.
I wish this would get more exposure, I hate the way the media treats science. And nutritional science? Forget it.
How, and why, a journalist tricked news outlets into thinking chocolate makes you thin - The Washington Post
How, and why, a journalist tricked news outlets into thinking chocolate makes you thin - The Washington Post
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Hah, was just about to post that, or rather the more direct article:
I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Heres How.
One thing I couldn't find was a list of news outlets that reposted it. Daily mail, huffpo, daily star aren't faux-science news sites, so them reposting garbage isn't a real surprise.
I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Heres How.
One thing I couldn't find was a list of news outlets that reposted it. Daily mail, huffpo, daily star aren't faux-science news sites, so them reposting garbage isn't a real surprise.