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Let me tell you a little bit about my second book, and how it relates to my first book. 1/
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Will Kinney
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Will Kinney
@WKCosmo
Cosmologist, physicist, dirtbag mountain biker, expat Montanan, Copernican extremist. Part of the problem.
Buffalo, NY Katılım Ocak 2017
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@REasther If I remember correctly, it was in "The Fountains of Paradise" that Clarke had big orbital mirrors for weather control.
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@WKCosmo Space stuff attracts a lot of stupid money but this takes the cake. And it is definitely going to piss people off. (Also am guessing these things will have a huge cross sectional area relative to their mass, so orbit management will be expensive)
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And after that they will take the moon for ransom unless James Bond infiltrates their volcano lair.
Science without the gobbledygook@sciencewtg
Startup plans to sell redirected sunlight from space Reflect Orbital, a startup based in California, wants to offer sunlight on demand. They plan on deploying satellites with mirrors that redirect sunlight to whomever is willing to pay for it – the regions could even be on the night-side of the planet. The satellites would be placed in low Earth orbit and reflect light onto areas a few kilometres across. The company expects that the resulting brightness would be comparable to or somewhat above moonlight. This is not much, but it would allow solar arrays to operate after sunset. The company plans a first demonstration mission in 2026 and envisions scaling to thousands of satellites. They project customer costs at about $5,000 per hour for illumination.
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@WKCosmo "This is not much, but it would allow solar arrays to operate after sunset."
We get 3kW off our roof in the middle of the day, so this would be a little over 3mW? That won't even run the LEDs on the inverter. This has to be a cover story for something else.
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Thinking about how useful this is going to be for generating lecture demos for all kinds of stuff.
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The final product. Gorgeous! Done in around an hour with Claude Sonnet 4.6.
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Playing around with Claude AI. Wrote this nice interactive nonlinear double-pendulum simulation in about twenty minutes with a few back-and-forth iterations with the AI. Pretty damn cool.
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Playing around with Claude AI. Wrote this nice interactive nonlinear double-pendulum simulation in about twenty minutes with a few back-and-forth iterations with the AI. Pretty damn cool.
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@WKCosmo You ever try to write slow roll simulations for various field options with AI?
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@NikoSarcevic @WKCosmo @CburgesCliff you're not a phenomenologist unless you post to la province d' hep-ph
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@WKCosmo HOW DARE YOU, SIR, I ASK!??
@CburgesCliff look at the lies he is spewing about me!
Incredible.
(Is it time to admit to myself and everyone in the room that this, in fact, is true?)
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Inside the radioactive interior of the ruined Chornobyl Nuclear Plant, a dark fungus seems to flourish. And scientists wonder if its extreme melanin content may not only be shielding the organisms, but actually using the gamma rays as an energy source.
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@DeivonDrago I gave up on DoB when it turned out that they were acting as a de facto arm of Hamas.
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@WKCosmo I hadn’t heard about DoB issues but I can imagine they got swept up in the zeitgeist.
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Yet another organization that I used to give money to, but now no longer do.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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