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There’s water on Mars.

Mars water: Liquid water reservoirs found under Martian crust

Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.

www.bbc.com

 

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Otters Are Like, Super Evil — And 16 Other Unsettling Facts I Recently Learned About Otherwise Cute Animals

Welcome to the jungle, indeed.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Bohandas]

This and the plucked chicken are practical examples of cogent criticism, not dismissing the entire endeavor.

And I didn't say that all of it was useless, just that most of it was.

And more to the crux of my point if you want to really understand Zeno's paradoxes and what's wrong with them, you need to learn calculus (and maybe quantum physics?), not philosophy. Similarly, if you want to know what differentiates a chicken from a human you're better off studying evolutionary biology. Historically a big chunk of philosophy has been in essence a secular god of the gaps.

 

[Bohandas]

Otters Are Like, Super Evil — And 16 Other Unsettling Facts I Recently Learned About Otherwise Cute Animals

Welcome to the jungle, indeed.

www.yahoo.com

There's a few missing that I had expected to be there, like that rabbits eat their own droppings because their intestines are too short to digest the plant matter they eat in one pass. Or that ducks have enormous schwanzstuckers that evolved in part because of the outsized role assault plays in duck mating; and that they regrow them seasonally.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There’s water on Mars.

Mars water: Liquid water reservoirs found under Martian crust

Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.

www.bbc.com

 

[overgeeked]

"Researchers used quantum computing to test a gigantic number of potential window coatings, then ended up with a 1.2 micron-thick layering of silica, alumina, and titanium oxide that cuts a building's cooling costs by up to one-third."

Scientists use quantum computing to create glass that cuts the need for AC by a third

Researchers used quantum computing to develop a micro-thin coating capable of blocking heat while keeping glass totally transparent.

www.popsci.com

 

[Scribe]

"Researchers used quantum computing to test a gigantic number of potential window coatings, then ended up with a 1.2 micron-thick layering of silica, alumina, and titanium oxide that cuts a building's cooling costs by up to one-third."

Scientists use quantum computing to create glass that cuts the need for AC by a third

Researchers used quantum computing to develop a micro-thin coating capable of blocking heat while keeping glass totally transparent.

www.popsci.com

Whats the hold up on quantum computing anyway? I remember it being talked about 20 years ago at least as 'a threat to computer security'.

 

[Bohandas]

Whats the hold up on quantum computing anyway? I remember it being talked about 20 years ago at least as 'a threat to computer security'.

That's one of those things that's been "ten years away" for half a century now. Granted, we recently got one of those things (soft AI), but I wouldn't expect to also get quantum computing (or fusion, for that matter, which is also in that category) right away just because we got one of them.

In terms of the details of what's keeping it back, IIRC it has the same issue as superconductor-based technology, namely that it has to be cooled to nearly absolute zero to work

 

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I learned this today

 

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UC Davis creates ‘most accurate’ brain tech to help ALS patient speak

A new brain-computer interface can translate ALS patient's brain signals to speech with 97% accuracy—the highest ever achieved yet.

interestingengineering.com