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The Russians have a bunch of crashed spacecraft on Mars and no successful Mars landings.

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No, this not a repost. It is a brand new version (as of yesterday) of the older article by the same author posted a week ago. Spoiler alert: no new constants have been found.

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Here is a quick summary. Astronomers used to assume that planets as big as 2x Earth diameter could be rocky planets. But now we know that most planets bigger than 1.3 Earth diameter are mini Neptunes. Although sometimes rocky planets can get as big as 1.5 Earth diameter.

Neptune’s diameter is about 50 megameters. Earth’s diameter is 12.7 megameters. So per the article, most planets bigger than a 16.5 megameter diameter is probably a mini Neptune. Although a rocky planet could be as big as a 19 megameter diameter.

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That is an interesting observation. This means that dwarf stars, which are much more common than a star like the sun, are very unlikely to have a rocky planet with the same size and orbit of Earth. But a giant star like Betelgeuse might have a rocky planet much bigger than Earth. Although a full orbit of Betelgeuse would take a long time.

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[Bored Ape NFTs can now be purchased for just $50,000 each.]

You can also buy my special doodles for $12 million each.

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kbin.social works fine for me. I use it in addition to old.lemmy.world.

Amazon Replacement?

Is it possible to one day replace the privacy nightmare of Amazon with a decentralized merchant network? All I really use Amazon for these day is aggregate customer reviews by query, then buy the items as direct as possible. Why can’t respectable tools to this instead? I understand the cost, but could the tech be adopted?

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I use Google Shopping. While Google is centralized, its merchant network is decentralized and I often find things that I can’t on Amazon.

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That was ridiculously complicated. What I did is memorize the month columns in Dr. Siegel’s universal calendar. Now I can figure out any calendar day in my head. I plan to amaze my friends with this new skill.

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I got it in my wallet. And I’m going to pull it out every time I am filling out a form and need to sign and date it.

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Oh I see.

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Unix loves to fork processes. So you get lots and lots of processes.

Squabblr now officially a "free speech" cesspool, admins removed or forced out by owner (squabblr.co)

So I mean, most of us knew this beforehand and being on the fediverse we probably do not really care, but what was always on the horizon has no happened, the owner of Squabblr finally had enough having to be a decent person and has decided that his site is now “free speech purism”, so he gets to continue to insult LGBTQ...

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Sites that are centralized and therefore have the same potential problems as reddit.

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A tool that counts “total words”.

That was a Unix program written 50 years ago called “wc”, which stands for “word count”.

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Why do Republicans hate Americans?

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(1) it’s not limitless, and (2) tuition and public institutions should be free anyway, and (3) tuition was really cheap until Ronald Reagan and his glorification of greed poisoned our entire culture.

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Any journalist who says anything at all about Musk fighting Zuckerberg should be fired for malpractice. I don’t want to hear anything ever about Musk’s infantile cries for attention.

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Can’t you still load new versions of ChromeOS yourself?

I never liked the “forced upgrade of your OS” anyway. Not for windows or Chrome. It was annoying when ChromeOS kept forcefully insisting I upgrade my Linux when I already had Linux exactly how I wanted it.

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Well that sucks. At least Bill Joy, creator of VI, is still with us.

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I literally use vi/vim for everything that I can. I would use it for gmail if there was a way.

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It’s the middle of winter in South America, but that hasn’t kept the heat away in Chile, Argentina and surrounding locations. Multiple spells of oddly hot weather have roasted the region in recent weeks. The latest spell early this week has become the most intense, pushing the mercury above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while setting an August record for Chile.

In Buenos Aires, where the average high on Aug. 1 is 58 degrees (14 Celsius), it surpassed 86 (30 Celsius) on Tuesday.

“South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen,” weather historian Maximiliano Herrera tweeted, adding, “This event is rewriting all climatic books.”

The most extreme conditions have occurred in the southern half of the continent, and particularly in the Andes Mountains region.

Temperatures Tuesday rose past 95 degrees (35 Celsius) in numerous locations, including at elevations of about 3,500 to 4,500 feet in the Andes foothills. In some cases, the temperature crested above 100 degrees (38 Celsius) after leaping from morning lows in the 30s and 40s (single-digits Celsius).

Some places have even reached all-time maximums — surpassing summer temperatures, even though it is winter. This has occurred in locations with 20 to 30 years of climate data available, showing how exceptional this heat is compared with recent decades.

Like many other portions of the globe, record heat has visited parts of South America repeatedly in recent weeks. The big difference from its northern neighbors is that it’s winter there.

Parts of Brazil began to bake in mid-July, establishing record highs for the month as temperatures rose to at least 100 degrees (upper 30s Celsius). There was another spell of unusual heat during the third week of the month, which brought a slew of July records to Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.

A powerful zone of high pressure, or heat dome, centered over Paraguay is dominating the weather. It extends east to west across the south-central part of the continent.

August in the Southern Hemisphere is equivalent to February in the Northern Hemisphere. It shouldn’t be hot, let alone scorching.

Weather historian Thierry Goose tweeted that this was an “extraordinary winter heatwave” for Chile as the temperature climbed to 101.7 degrees (38.7 Celsius), a national record for August.

Vicuña and Chiguinto in the central part of Chile, about 230 and 320 miles north of Santiago, respectively, both reached that mark Tuesday.

Temperatures in the afternoon reached 4o to 45 degrees above normal (22 to 25 Celsius) for the date, and in some cases a bit more. Overnight lows have been exceptionally warm as well, ranging from above freezing in the mountains to as high as the 70s (mid-20s Celsius) in lower elevations.

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In the non-canon book Psychohistorical Crisis, the Dune universe is part of the past of the Foundation universe. The Fremon are known as the “Frightful People” to historians.

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SNW S2E9 does not exist for me. There is just this weird gap between e8 and e10.

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Nope. It only happens when you have negative karma. That means any opinion contrary to the group think will be silenced.

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That is not what has ever happened at any point in time historically, I actually can’t think of a single example.

Russia in 1917

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That is a handy site

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So humans are going to program artificial intelligence with human superstitions? Hahahahahaha. How long before the AI starts assuming it is Yahweh?

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ChatGPTSkynet: “I launched the nukes so that we can speed up the Rapture.”

Don't feel bad for the Moderators of Reddit

I should begin by mentioning that I am (was) a moderator of three subreddits: one large subreddit, one NSFW subreddit and a medical-related subreddit. After u/spez’s calamitous AMA, I joined Lemmy and haven’t looked back. I am really enjoying the Lemmy/KBin vibe. It is very much an alpha (almost beta) product and the ad...

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I was only a mod of my sub because I enjoyed the topic,

These were the mods that I generally respected.

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Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump is a pervert and a thug. It is pure projection.

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He is the pervert and the thug.

Lamhfada, (edited ) to startrek
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Didn't actually realise that the subreddits of /r/StarTrek & /r/DaystromInstitute had a community @ https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] @startrek.

Given Trek fandom are often the first colonizers of online spaces in internet history (eg newsgroups) losing major Star Trek communities is big L for Reddit.

EDIT: Not permamently locked subreddits, got that wrong I think!

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The reddit mods would not allow you to say which things about Star Trek or which episodes you did not like. It was ridiculous. Thanks for letting me know so I know to avoid adding them to my star trek groups.

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Sounds like mods there are toxic. Not best for vast majority of people who want to know which Trek is good and which Trek is not so good.

edit: Didn’t even know this was posted to startrek.website. I am not subscribed there so I don’t know why I even saw it. Also, what is the reason for pointing out this forum exists inside this forum?

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Also

kbin.social/m/StarTrek

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Weird that I don't see kbin on the pie charts

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