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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dr Angela Collier has done a video essay on why aliens won’t be silicon-based. She’s not a biologist but an astrophysicist but the focus of her video is mostly about how carbon chemistry and cosmic abundance is better suited to producing life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Moon landing line is a pretty important thing to study, actually, since we know what the rehearsed line was: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Without that “a” it’s a very silly line.

  Armstrong for years claimed he said the line right and that it must’ve been garbled in the radio transmission, and in recent years has been vindicated as better signal:noise algorithms processed the recording and found the missing word. Researchers aren’t blowing money to find out if Armstrong was a liar, they’re using it to develop more sensitive receivers, better transmission protocols, and more advanced algorithms to parse signal out of noise, all of which have massive impacts in other domains. An algorithm that’s better at parsing data out of noise in particular is going to be useful in loads of places like MRI machines where improving resolution will take billions in research but improving parsing is just updating the software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s a significant amount of oil infrastructure locally. They’ve even got a colonialist extension with Canada: crude oil crosses over to be refined and sold back to Canada

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s two kinds of conspiracies:

  1. Ultimately antisemitic nonsense

  2. Admitted to by the government thirty years after the fact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is entirely on her side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom ID⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eastern North American Destroying Angel. Half a mushroom is enough to completely destroy your liver and symptoms show up too late to do anything about them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Netflix's One Piece good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just how anime is shot I think