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yes, which is what you’d measure to compare the energy efficiency of completing a job.

That’d need watt hours though. Meme is only showing the instantaneous power required to conjure the image for an infinitesimal amount of time - you cant do any useful ‘work’ with it unless the time is accounted for. Watt seconds maybe.

What makes me skeptikal of this data though is that the correct sciencing term for a billion watts is the well established ‘jiggawatt’. In this context I’d have also accepted the Canadian spelling ‘jigglewatt’.

With the right electric field you can generate (a small amount of) thrust our of ions in air flowing over a charged plane.

One of the myth-busters “anti-gravity” devices they tested was actually (very weak) a static electric ion thruster.

Pretty cool - but it did need electric power input.

Previously i’ve only accepted AI into my life as a thing to use when I get asked ‘stupid business jargon management /HR question’ at work.

but I’m tentatively prepeared to allow this, it might be raisin the bar.

If you figure out the right protocol you could probably catapult a series of twisted pears from house to house.

The way the internet is going, bashed and bruised fruit salad sounds preferable to the actual data anyway.

A researcher should offer a sufficient compensation package to get enough volunteers after explaining the risks. They should get independent medical advice too.

They can still randomize within the volunteers with treatment / placebo, and maybe use quotas, but they’d just have to extend their trial period until they’d achieved a measurably representative treatment and control group and enough volunteers to test the hypothesis to the required level.

This type of non-random sampling may very well have to be done anyway, for example if they needed the power to test efficacy and safety in all the potential dug interactions or co-morbidity scenarios. Not to mention any diagnosis requirement will also screen the sample which could be influenced by health care system resources and policies, not necessarily pure morbidity. So I think they can deal with non-random sampling in med research perfectly well.

Not if they’ve pre-tested on non-volunteers though.

I don’t know much about nazis but I thought an important part of their rhetoric was to draw distinctions between types of human.

So they’d not see “10bn humans”, they’d see maybe 100m aryan and 9.9bn “untermensch”; the latter being equivalent to rats available to be experimented on.

I just find rats to be much more preferable, pleasant and considerate creatures than humans. I see humans as a single tier of unterratten; totally different hierarchcy.

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Presumptuous, smug, know it all, clickbait titles still didn’t die?

Fuck me, if I were in America and had to read toss like that, I’d probably think the population of ‘scientific’ americans contains a larger than normal proportion of cunts.

And a pack of condoms ?

Agreed, It’d be interesting to see the cost breakdowns.

I guess you have to spend more on tracks to get higher speeds, but still to get to 600kph you must put a lot of electricity into that thing.

If sort of feels like maglev should be able recover a decent amount of electricity during braking, but maybe there are practical constraints - or just too much loss to wind resistance.

Maybe it comes down to just a handful of magnets round a few axles being cheaper than a long line of magnets the length of the track.

i like the use of “derailed” instead of “never got off the ground” in the headline.

Interested to know how much less for lower resolutions. I’m not sure I’ve ever cared for high resolutions - and I’d always pick more battery life given the choice.

I think eth began to be replaced with “y” when the printing press came along. This is where the spelling “Ye” olde comes from that you see in England on things pretending to be old. Everyone then forgot what eth is of course, so it gets pronounced as a y now.

I think that really depends on the individual, some rats are skittish and don’t like being handled at all. The best way to handle them is to leave them alone.

Humans should test their shit on themselves or on some other human that they can explain the risks to and agree compensation.

Bandcamp is not banned in the UK yet. But i think the government has strong intelligence that they are a terrorist organisation.

He missed out on the darwin award too.

Maybe that’s the wiggly motion you have to with your arm to get it through la manche.