zik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome too...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With the right attitude, any robot’s a sexbot.

  …and my robot vacuum’s looking mighty fine right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Vasquez is always the best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not economically feasible anywhere right now. Unfortunately nuclear power is very expensive compared to all the alternatives. Unless there’s some radical breakthrough I can’t see much nuclear being built in the future. No company would pay such a huge up-front cost to produce uneconomic electricity.

  So the strict answer is - no, they’re not feasible everywhere. And also not feasible pretty much anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foiled yet again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst thing about this is that the English teacher is wrong too - common usage dictates that this is a perfectly acceptable form of request.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do poor people in the states give birth without money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. That’s horrible. The US health system sounds like a dystopian nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among Us’ first new map in over two years brings beaches, mushrooms and toasty marshmallows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we talk about Rock Paper Shotgun’s horrible dark pattern with cookies? It took me a couple of minutes to work out how to reject all cookies, and even then I’m not sure I did it correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tossing Satellites into Orbit with SpinLaunch: Is that Possible? | Interesting Engineering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually much worse. Kinetic energy is a square law so to reach orbit at 5 times the velocity requires 5x5=25 times the energy they’re currently using. And air resistance is also a square law so making it go 5 times faster also results in 25 times the air resistance and 25 times the heating due to it.

  Most likely if they did get it going fast enough to make it to orbit, it’d burn up in the lower atmosphere before it even got that far.