Tlaloc_Temporal
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Cat Calibration 14 hours ago:
That happens regularly whenever the bones start to solidify. It’s analogous to the “strech” function on other platforms, but functions significantly differently.
- Comment on I've got a double peen AMA 1 day ago:
I think you missed the reasoning behind the “dead” part.
If the hammer doesn’t bounce when it hits, it’s not as lively, and lands like a dead body.
- Comment on I've got a double peen AMA 1 day ago:
Well it does have a claw, but it specifically has the nail holder.
- Comment on Owl Pellets 2 days ago:
I think most if not all tetrapods should have the 1-2-3-4-5 hierarchy for their arms and legs (although the later branches often fuse together).
I just checked, and mice have the 1-2 pattern for front and hind limbs. It’s just the arms that are weird, but this mouse’s arms have always been weird.
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 2 days ago:
And wild curves of extrapolation, and wild planes of extrapolation, and wild queues of extrapolation, and…
- Comment on But yes. 3 days ago:
Some cells are getting 47%, which is ridiculous for a generator! The theoretical maximum efficiency for solar cell from the sun as it appears in the sky is about 68%, so that’s pretty good!
However, how expensive is that cell going to be? How much maintenance does it need, and how fragile is the system once deployed? It’s very obvious that PV efficiency has beed skyrocketing recently, and I don’t thinks it’s stopping soon, but a commercial PV panel available today is just breaking 20% efficiency. Luckily, sunshine is quite abundant.
- Comment on But yes. 3 days ago:
Ooo, good call.
There’s also radioisotope piezoelectric generators, where the electrons are caught by a cantilever and then released in regular pulses. An electron waterwheel if you will.
- Comment on Kermit :) 3 days ago:
Kermi Tree Frog
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 3 days ago:
Lots of metamorphic bugs do this. Even the ones that eat as adults often die that same year, after 3-20 years as a larva.
- Comment on But yes. 3 days ago:
The only really new kinds are thermocouples (mostly garbage) and solar panels (poor efficiency, but abundant fuel).
Some fusion might end up using magnet pumping, which is basically just a plasma powered piston.
- Comment on Oopsies 6 days ago:
I feel like this is more an issue of poor healthcare than personal choice. It seems like rather than the U.S. chosing to be opt-in, they are physically unable to give everyone the choice to opt-out.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 6 days ago:
Several videos have been removed (including one for being violent?).
The original came from twitter, but has since been removed (I think, maybe x is just bad), but the DailyMail did a news article on it (ugh) and happen to still host the video.
- Comment on critical latex mod 1 week ago:
That’s probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
Also, the cooling effect sulphate aerosols can cause only really happens at high altitudes. At low altitudes the reflected light is less likely to escape to space, and the aerosols fall out of the air faster.
Even if they reached high altitudes, one of the effects of being in the atmosphere is moving with the wind, across entire hemispheres. And at tropospheric heights, sulphates, their products, and other byproducts of combustion may destroy ozone at significant levels.
There may come a day where aerosol-based geo-engineering becomes a part of climate management, but it’s definitely not with bunker fumes.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost analogous. A more massive object experiences a larger force caused by gravity, so assuming the gravity field stays the same, a larger mass is heavier.
You’re right that it’s technically incorrect, especially when talking about something like moving the Earth with gravity.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Both accelerate at the same speed, but the bowling ball completes it’s fall first because the Earth was pulled up to meet it. The bowling ball falls faster not because it’s moving faster, but because it’s fall is shorter.
- Comment on Absolute Units 3 weeks ago:
Whales are surprisingly new.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
an intelligent species isn’t going to be limited by chance encounters.
That’s actually a fantastic point, we change our environment to be more suitable to ourselves, including cultivating unique yet safe species. I’ve never heard of a poison dart frog farm, nor a field of death caps.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Aliens tree people is an interesting picture indeed.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
That’s based on species though, so it would overrepresent unlikely encounters. I can go eat pine bark or grass on any continent and probably be A-OK.
I do wonder how that data compares with other mammals though. Is it just average, or is it significantly higher?
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Scavenging carcasses and chasing predators away from a kill is definitely a behavior we had in the past. Particularly during droughts and famines, scavenging would be an important food source on the Saharan scrubland. IIRC, this would’ve been before persistence hunting was a thing, back in the H.erectus days, maybe even as far back as some Australopiths.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
It is kinda weird that humans are so resilient to so many things though. It’s part of being scavenging omnivores, but alients with a more specialized diet might be weirded out.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
I would argue that habitat destruction, the introduction of hypercarivores, and chemical spraying would have a much larger effect on bird and insect populations around urban areas than a reduction in mosquitoes, but I’ll admit that I haven’t done any research (primary or secondary) on the topic.
My point was that a genetic attack vector would have far less side-effects than DDT, and pointing out the flaws of DDT does nothing to criticize attacking mosquitoes genetically.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
The whole point is that DDT caused a mosquito crash and nothing bad happened. If we can crash mosquitoes without DDT, it would be better for everyone.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
There are probably a few handfuls of other parasites that would count too.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 5 weeks ago:
I think KPH is the preferred acronym. km/h is the proper unit of course.
- Comment on Halloween Botany 5 weeks ago:
Lucky, I mean it is exactly the opposite way! Teach me some local languages, like Cree or Dene, maybe something Inuk.
I guess I am telling people to speak English though, aren’t I? Well it’s good to keep updated on the colonizer tongue I suppose.
Now get off my native grass lawn!
- Comment on Halloween Botany 5 weeks ago:
Oh probably, but I don’t speak latin. Most people don’t speak latin; there’s like 1000 people in the world maximum who could hold a conversation in latin.
- Comment on Halloween Botany 5 weeks ago:
We really should rename botanical berries to something else.
- Comment on Cheeky 5 weeks ago:
I thought Egyptians had bad teeth because their flour was ground with sandstone, leaving sand in their bread. They ground their teeth into nothing by eating sand.