Right, but then it’s not really “without fuel.” It’s hopefully less fuel, and if you can run it on solar panels, it would be without resupply, but nuclear power could also provide long-term functionality. As always, the most fuel is spent getting things into orbit.

For me, the exciting bit is the magnetic radiation shielding. If we’re going to leave earth behind, radiation shielding is currently a significant missing piece of the puzzle.

Except right now, superconductors only work at very low temperatures, and keeping things at low temps in space requires energy.

There’s no design, so there’s no intent. We can predict what might happen, which ecological areas will collapse, which species will thrive, and as humans we can intervene to try to prevent disasters we se coming. The “endgame” is the heat death of the universe, at which point all life will be long dead.

No.

Ok, you’re ill-informed.

Considering we only know it’s there because it slightly dims the light from its star as it crosses during its orbit, you would be correct. At that distance, we would never see light bouncing off the actual planet. Even the star is basically a single pixel. We can estimate its size and orbit based on how quickly it crosses in front of the star and how much the light dims, and using those two numbers we can estimate its distance from Kepler 452.

Before I was a dad, I would say a lot of these ironically, fully aware of and referencing the cliche. Now, they’re just part of me.

I did something similar with an old spare phone for a while when my actual phone screen stopped working. I carried both around, but I found 90% of my use cases didn’t involve phone calls or even texting.

I do find it convenient to have my phone connected to tailscale so I can access my home network from anywhere.

And I don’t necessarily trust public wifi.

But otherwise, I fully support this and think it’s entirely viable for most people.

https://lemmy.world/comment/21774208

I don’t believe you’re honestly anything.

See what you’re doing now is called sea-lioning, where you pretend you have been misunderstood, and you’re just trying to have a civil conversation. You shared a nazi arguement, and if you feel you’ve been misunderstood, you’re free to clarify what you meant to say. I’ve said my peace, so if you want to keep pretending you’re not a bigot, then you’ll need to do more than insist others prove it.

I feel like I was fairly clear about that. It’s the one where you use bad science to justify bigotry and crimes against humanity. For example, your comment earlier in this thread about how certain people shouldn’t exist because ova and sperm are the only gametes.

Which is it, you don’t want to defend the nazi argument, or you do want to defend the nazi argument?

Literally every sentence you typed is entirely inaccurate. It’s bad science promoted by bigots to create a convinient lie that permits them to discriminate and oppress people.

Edit to add: It’s even a bad interpretation of the metaphor. It’s like saying “akshually, there’s only two atomic particles, the proton and the electron, and these are the only two particles that determine charge, so there’s really only two types of atoms, positive and negative charged atoms, and that’s why black people don’t deserve civil rights.”

That’s you. That’s what you sound like.

• Human genders are not defined by gamete types.
• Human sex is not defined by gamete types. There are women born with testes, and men born with ovaries. Secondary sexual characteristics are influenced by hormones as much as genetics, and the presence of a gamete does not determine the hormones in a person’s body.
• Sexual development charts are generalizations across average humans, and do not necessarily represent any one individual’s sexual development. Everyone does not fit into a box.
• You can’t hide your bigotry behind peer-reviewed biology papers and textbooks. The actual science doesn’t support it.
• Gonochorism is not relevant to the psychosexual development of humans. It’s a term used to differentiate animals that change sexes due to environmental factors, like alligators and snails. Nobody is claiming that transgender individuals are simultaneously hermaphroditic. It’s a biological strawman argument that belies the insincerity of your argument.

In short, fuck off with your nazi bullshit.

I’ll just put it over here with the rest of the fire.

I had not seen the movie in 20 years, and the last time was probably on TBS so edited for broadcast tv. I forgot about this entirely.

My go-to is the biblical definition, which says pretty much the same thing. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Things hoped for have no substance. So you plant your feet on faith instead of substance, and insist the things you hope for are true. Your evidence for unobservable things is faith. You cannot prove they exist, so faith is your foundation and your confirmation that you’re right.

For years, I had my own headcanon for the Labyrinth movie. In the scene, the young Sarah correctly solves the riddle, passes through the correct door, says “This is a piece of cake!” and then she immediately falls down a pit of doom. This confused me, because she got the answer right. So I reasoned that the guards were both liars, and because they both participated in explaining the rules, they were lying about the rules.

It was only a few years ago that I read in an interview that the Labyrinth (or Jareth) dropped her down the hole because she said it was a piece of cake. It was her arrogance that set her back, not that she got the riddle wrong.

But now it still bothers me that the liar, whichever one he is, helps explain the rules of the scenario. If he always lies, then she can’t trust that either of them ever tells the truth. The rules have to be described separately, like on a sign or by a disinterested third party. Or you could phrase it differently, like “One of us will answer your question truthfully, and one of us will answer your question dishonestly.” That way you avoid saying that they always lie, and specify that the lie will only be in response to the one question.

Fuck, I’ve had too much coffee. How the fuck did I get up on this soapbox? Why are you still reading? Go do something productive.

I don’t get it.

This is the guy in charge of medical advice for the United States. Lacking even basic scientific knowledge.