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If the other planet’s moons have its own name, what is the name of our moon?
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@_esk_kse_ Wonder when/where Berkshire Hathaway is going to invest that wad of cash?
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I think it's beautiful.
Nature is saying fuck you to humans and I enjoy watching the idiots who though humans could beat nature are panicking.
In Denver, they're telling you to snitch on your neighbor if you think they're wasting water.
I live in the mountains, where the water starts..
When all the dummies are like why do you live so far from the city, it's cold up there. I say, thanks for visiting I hope you enjoyed your time, looks like you should head farther east where the water is more abundant. The great lakes are full of fresh water!
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A new scientific analysis warns that the Colorado River Basin could face a “system crash” as early as 2028, threatening water supplies for roughly 40 million people across the American Southwest.
The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are continuing to decline at an unsustainable rate despite conservation efforts. Experts point to chronic over-allocation, persistent drought, and rising temperatures as the main drivers, creating an annual structural deficit of approximately 2.6 million acre-feet of water.
With 2026 shaping up to be one of the lowest runoff years on record, another dry year could push the reservoirs toward “run-of-the-river” operations. At that point, they would lose most of their storage capacity and simply pass through whatever water flows in from the river, severely limiting their ability to deliver water or generate hydropower.
This would have major consequences for drinking water, agriculture, and electricity generation in seven U.S. states and parts of Mexico. Researchers describe a “ratchet effect,” in which occasional wet years provide only temporary relief before long-term overuse and climate pressures resume the downward trend. Since peaking in the late 1990s, the two reservoirs have lost a massive share of their combined volume.
Experts stress that avoiding a full collapse will require permanent, significant reductions in water use across the basin, far beyond temporary conservation measures, because natural weather variability can no longer compensate for the system’s deep structural imbalance.
[University of Colorado Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment]
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@Rainmaker1973 Build more data centers, that cured AGW might cure this too.
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Donald Trump's policies are accelerating Social Security’s insolvency.
Here’s a common-sense solution:
My bill would fund Social Security for the next 75 YEARS by making the wealthy pay their fair share — and EXPAND benefits at the same time.
It’s time to act.
CBS News@CBSNews
Social Security is on track to become insolvent by the end of 2032, putting benefits at risk of a 22% cut. cbsn.ws/4umfAHh
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@VaibhavSisinty "And this is the wild part" this post was written by AI.
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Okay this is genuinely insane.
SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.
It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.
AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.
They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.
So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.
In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.
And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."
One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.
AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.
And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.
The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.
@SpaceX
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@j60tt0 @codevsdev Fortran77, Teleuse and Paradox, maybe not so much. Not to mention device drivers.
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@codevsdev When you bought a compiler for a language it came with physical books and a huge library of examples, sometimes even on disk/CD/DVD. Before that there were magazines with code you could type in.... though they normally followed in the next issue by corrections for the typos!
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