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@Thebestfigen The classes at my university were all dumbed down so that everyone could pass, which worked to the detriment of everyone who was working to actually learn the subjects being taught. Sometimes I feel like my degree is nothing but a sign that I was the idiot for paying tuition.

It is! 😂😂

It might not be. That depends on your definition of intelligence, and your definition of rare. There could be a dozen other civilizations at a similar level of technological advancement to us today in our arm of the Milky Way without us even knowing. That question will become much more pressing if prove that interplanetary (or especially interstellar) civilization is possible. Until then, the apparent Silence Of the Stars - the Fermi Paradox - is more of an academic question based on a hypothetical premise. My favorite solution is explored in the SciFi short story Lurker.

Why is consciousness so rare in the universe?

The answers to these kinds of questions are rarely straightforward. Even the most “processed” and “artificial” foods are made from “natural” ingredients originally. Everything comes from nature. Most processes can be boiled down to cooking, freezing, separating, or blending ingredients. Yet, we all know that excessive processing results in unhealthy food. It’s not always clear where best to draw that line. Like most processes, pasteurization has upsides and downsides: It makes milk last longer because it kills bacteria – the good and the bad.

I can not understand what the big deal is with pasteurization? It's literally just heating milk for a set time then rapidly cooling it No chemicals, no high tech equipment, it's just heated milk

@PlanetOfMemes This, plus any objectively false claim should instantly trigger a vote of no confidence to immediately remove them from office.

Hear me out: 🤔 Anytime a politician is speaking, there should be a large monitor behind them with Grok fact-checking them in real time.

@joeroganhq The purpose of these tests was to film the effects of a nuclear blast. The camera wasn't sitting on a retail tripod in the desert when it happened to catch a nuclear bomb test detonation by accident. Of course they were shielded. Otherwise there would be no point in filming

"Conspiracy theory" catches Joe Rogan off guard. "You son of a b*tch."

@Scivf4 They must have had a very reliable system to prevent cookoff when the barrel got hot.

Why firing through a propeller doesn't destroy it

My pet theory is that it’s Dark Energy is an artifact of limited perspective skewing measurements. No matter what we do, we can only measure from a point-like perspective in space. We can’t observe objects from anywhere but our host star. Like a man staring through fog or a fish looking out of a round bowl, everything we see is skewed by our perspective. Furthermore, on the timescale of the universe, we’re seeing little more than a still photo of the universe. Barely any time has passed since observations of the cosmos began, even if we count observations by ancient civilizations. This forces us to make a lot of assumptions about our observations based on extrapolation of how things seem to work in our quiet little corner of the Milky Way. The concept of Dark Energy does not come from the real-time observation of the accelerating expansion of the universe (because we have not existed for long enough to observe it over real time). It comes from an extrapolation of limited observation data applied to models built on concentric assumptions, then concluding that the universe must be expanding at an accelerating rate, and from there deciding that “something” must be responsible for that acceleration. Many of those assumptions may turn out to be correct. However, until a mechanism for accelerated universal expansion of space is discovered, I think Dark Energy is just as likely an artifact of our limited perspective. Even if our local bubble of space – even the entire Hubble Volume – is expanding, I think that the assumption that all of space is expanding at an accelerating rate is a premature assumption (but still worth investigating, even if only to rule it out).

What's your opinion on dark energy? ✍️

@dhe3g I could see myself misreading this as "tourist" and clicking yes just trying to blitz through the menus.

@Cloud1a7 I ducking hate when that happens

Every Ducking time. 😡

@AmericaReal3 That doesn't look tungsten cored. Seems like it could have been verified by weight or water displacement rather than cutting it. Then again, that wouldn't make for an impactful image.

@creepydotorg It's a good thing the movies are deliberately tongue and cheek. Pulling that stunt off with a stoic expression may have taken weeks.

The sword catching scene in Pirates of the Caribbean took hours to film because the actors kept missing the catch, so their reactions in the final shot are genuine.

@elonmusk The rocket garden - grown from seeds of the future.

Rocket garden at Starbase. You can see this from the public highway.

@LoKoKaBoosTeR69 Naw. He doesn't use bug spray. He uses scissors.

I bet this is how Asmongold see his pet roaches 😭😂

@honeymoon250 The automatic shopping cart? The incomplete gun with open holes on the back? The unevenly spaced ceiling tiles and lights? Or the person in the background crab walking sideways while phasing through her shopping cart?

Be honest here , If you were shopping and saw this, would it make you uncomfortable?

@SGTWipper1Each I have always thought it made more sense for the US military to build drones for vertical launch tubes. Solid booster to clear the tube, then simple expanding wings and a propeller for level flight. You could launch a lot more drones a lot faster that way.

A closer look at our new LUCAS drones. Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System is a one-way attack drone. Costs $35,000 each. Operational range of 500 miles. 215cc carbureted internal-combustion engine.

Depends on the scope. If the class is just going to be gun death statistics and instructions to “never touch a gun, and call an adult if you see a gun,” then it’s not necessary. Kids already get those messages through assemblies. When I was growing up, we also got them through Saturday morning cartoon PSAs. I can’t imagine a world where the US education system teaches about safe handling practices for firearms because that would require suggesting that students might put themselves in a position to handle a firearm. I can only picture a k-12 “firearm safety” class being handled as a firearm fearmongering class.

GOOD or BAD idea? Two Republican lawmakers in Arizona want to require all K-12 students to take a firearm safety class every year. abc15.com/news/state/bil…

@LPNational Unless the local gun population is in danger of going extinct, I don't see the correlation.

I expect AI is already much further along that graph than indicated. The biggest difference I see between text-based generative AI and animals is a lack of direct sensory integration and real time feedback. No ears or eyes, and no ability to "think" outside prompts. But giving an AI a mic and camera and the ability to loop prompts for simple continuous congestion would be trivial.

Yeah

@joeroganhq I want to know what material his suit is made from to not tear at the crotch doing that

This man inspired so many kids to pursue martial arts.

Open-air nuclear weapons testing from the 1940's though the 1980's had long-lasting global consequences, many of which persist to this day. We can't afford a demonstration for each new generation of world leaders, especially since nuclear weapons are no longer the only technology capable of knocking civilization back to the stone age. Our long term survival as a species depends upon the ability of leadership to act on hypotheticals.

genuine question that i think about more than i should should the US coordinate with every nuclear power and detonate a live nuclear device on global broadcast television pick a dead zone in the pacific or something every superpower signs off, every camera on earth pointed at it, every nation watching simultaneously we have entire generations of world leaders who have never actually witnessed what a nuclear weapon does to the physical world they read about hiroshima, they see the old footage, and then they go back to their meetings and throw the word around like its nothing a live unedited detonation changes that permanently imo you cannot unsee it you cannot go back to your summit and casually threaten nuclear war after watching it happen in real time with every other nuclear power standing next to you the terror of these weapons has faded into abstraction and that abstraction is genuinely dangerous is this delusional or is nobody saying it because it sounds crazy on the surface