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orincoro t1_j1pm511 wrote
Reply to comment by graciebee21 in Samsung develops industry’s first 12nm-Class DDR5 DRAM by thebelsnickle1991
And my axe.
orincoro t1_j1n3c5g wrote
Congress still gives the Defense department more than it asks for every year.
orincoro t1_j19v0c1 wrote
Reply to comment by TheBroadHorizon in Perseverance sample tube drop by coffeesam
The wind has been found to generally uncover things from time to time. The soil on the surface is so dry and fine that it takes a very long time for dust sediment to “settle” or harden, as it would on earth due to moisture condensing from the air. Mars has very little frost, no significant organic decay of minerals, so there is not as much tendency for things to get buried.
Basically all that life and moisture on earth makes everything kind of sticky. Mars is far less “sticky.” Something can be covered up, only to be completely uncovered again as the wind continues.
orincoro t1_j19omuz wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in What3Words - The simplest way to talk about location by OlduvaiMan
But 15 meters a year is really, really fast. The rest of the world is moving like 5-6 cm a year.
I have a hard time believing that figure because this would imply that Australia has moved 750 kilometers north in just the time since humans lived there. That would be really surprising to me.
Edit: as I suspected, it moves more like 15 meters every century. Still extremely fast for a continent, but not 15 meters a year.
orincoro t1_j19mqqp wrote
Reply to comment by SorayaSalan in What3Words - The simplest way to talk about location by OlduvaiMan
Australia moves 15 meters A YEAR?
orincoro t1_j0c7tzb wrote
Reply to comment by swisstraeng in Japan to Manufacture 2nm Chips With a Little Help From IBM by Avieshek
I wonder how much electricity globally is consumed by needlessly overclocked GPUs.
orincoro t1_j08c6qx wrote
Reply to comment by swisstraeng in Japan to Manufacture 2nm Chips With a Little Help From IBM by Avieshek
Yeah, I thought I read this, that the obvious next step is to just build the wafers in a 3D architecture, but it’s super complicated to fabricate.
orincoro t1_iw6vqty wrote
Reply to comment by Ripcord in Tracks Of Ancient Human Found In Spain Are 300k Years Old by Several_Cabinet_9725
Thanks for correcting me.
orincoro t1_iw6j3mt wrote
Reply to comment by fogobum in Tracks Of Ancient Human Found In Spain Are 300k Years Old by Several_Cabinet_9725
Thank you for correcting me.
orincoro t1_iw6a5dw wrote
Reply to comment by skimmily in Tracks Of Ancient Human Found In Spain Are 300k Years Old by Several_Cabinet_9725
They use radio carbon dating of the sediment it was formed in. The sediment itself is formed from a mix of organic and inorganic material, including bacteria, or plant matter. Sometimes you find spores and seeds. The plant matter in the sediment can be accurately dated to when it stopped growing, because the carbon in it will begin to decay predictably at that moment.
So basically it’s the same as if you were studying a plant, but you’re relying on a relatively smaller sample size, and there’s some error because not all the organic matter dies at the same time. But it gives you a range that is pretty close, within a few thousand years.
(ETA: apparently not for things quite this old).
orincoro t1_iw69mnd wrote
Reply to comment by MarsupialKing in Tracks Of Ancient Human Found In Spain Are 300k Years Old by Several_Cabinet_9725
Hominin = human. “Homo” Neanderthalensis, habillus, denisovans, etc are all human.
Edit: hominin, not hominid.
orincoro t1_isge4ce wrote
Reply to [Image] If you don’t separate by Scandroid99
This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read.
I’ve been separated from 10 seconds of my life. I want to rejoin.
orincoro t1_j3h8kfb wrote
Reply to comment by funnyman4000 in Box Office Revenue [OC] by CharcoalCharts
Someone with an HDR display. Same problem when you’re mixing music using your expensive studio headphones.