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Reply to TIL that a 26-story skyscraper pig farm was built in China's Hubei province, and has the capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year. by DukeMaximum
Imagine if incredibly advanced aliens landed nearby to make first contact, and looked an awful lot like bipedal pigs.
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Reply to comment by GeorgeCauldron7 in when a limb gets amputated, how do they stop the flow of blood? by EnchantedCatto
It takes an off-ramp from the highway, down some streets, into the laneways, drops off it's parcel of oxygen, then makes it's way back up to another highway back to the heart.
There are loads and loads of little streets.
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Reply to comment by Weed_O_Whirler in Whats stopping us from sending a probe into a black hole if we haven't already? by stealth941
If humanity really put their mind to it, went all out and built an Orion type spacecraft, we could probably get it there within 3000 years or so.
It's very helpful that the intended destination is to plunge into a black hole, this means we don't need to flip and slow down halfway, so we put more fuel mass fraction into the initial acceleration and we can just smack into it at relativistic velocities.
Transmitting back could be done by a much smaller relay satellite shot backwards some distance from the target, unfurling a massive mylar solar sail with a clever 'shutter' system, using the black hole's accretion disk or a close star as the light source, like a morse light on a ship.. We will work it out.. Of course nothing passes the event horizon but we might get some neat close up images and data for a short while.
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Reply to comment by dogswontsniff in How do non electric heat operated fans work? by ranman12953
I use mine to cool the base of the flue a bit, where it exits the heater, hopefully extend the life of the hottest part a few more years.
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Reply to comment by bgraham111 in How do non electric heat operated fans work? by ranman12953
Stirling cryocoolers were quite popular for superconducting high-q microwave and mobile phone base station filters, for a while.
Pretty good 2nd hand source for making Stirling engines.
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Reply to comment by ncc81701 in Is there an upper limit on the size of a ship? by LilyFish-
Icebergs are a good example, as they are made out of freshwater ice, and you would expect properly engineered hollow steel structures to be much stronger.
Icebergs and Ice sheets get pretty large!
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Reply to comment by Flynn402 in China stages big military incursion, Taiwan says by No_Dependent_5066
82 years, really.. The U.S had a bunch of non-interventionist policies before 1940.
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Reply to comment by mckulty in In Sci-Fi the concept of eye-transplants is common enough - what would it take to actually be able to do it? by Daniel_Jacksson
This kind of thing is enabled by the kind of 'robotic brain surgeon' microelectrode implantor that Neuralink is building.
So despite the mouthbreathers ranting about Elon implanting microchips in your head there is a lot of progress being made that will help a lot of people.
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Reply to comment by thenewcomputer in Could being submersed in a sealed tank of fluid help humans survive heavy G acceleration in outer space? by cheeze_whiz_shampoo
Why not just fill the lungs with water and oxygenate the blood externally with ECMO
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Reply to comment by DeismAccountant in What is the the irradiance (W/m^2) range of human vision? by DeismAccountant
It's around the high end of the red-shifted Cosmic Microwave Background, your usual sensors for such are MEMS radiometer arrays or graphene bolometers cooled to near absolute zero.
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Reply to comment by DeismAccountant in What is the the irradiance (W/m^2) range of human vision? by DeismAccountant
>1,000,000nm
is radio, specifically 240GHz millimeter band which would be radar, basically.
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Reply to We are Dax Jackson and Ally Lee of Psychedelic Safety Alliance. We are here to provide scientific, no-BS adult harm reduction education around psychedelics. by psychsafetyalliance
That website being all center-aligned is really challenging to read, lol.
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Reply to comment by gogozrx in Does living in an airplane flight path, near an airport, pose a health risk? What happens to the lead from the jets fuel? by [deleted]
I can assure you that gas turbines have ignitors and can run on a large range of fuels, AVGAS included.