meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt
Joined Jan 2021
RT @MarkusDeserno
Did you know that the famous Carnot efficiency of an ideal cyclic heat engine does not require this engine to run on a Carnot cycle? It holds for *any* reversible cyclic engine!
Curious to know why? Then buckle up for a short but fun thread!
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can the volcanoes please just not
for like a year
we got some stuff goin' on
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RT @CSERCambridge
This paper presents seven global #pinchpoints where a clustering of global critical systems converges with regions of volcanic activity, presenting a new landscape for catastrophic volcanic risk.
https://twitter.com/CSERCambridge/status/1423571145182355457
This is the first actual data I've seen from the the Nauka incident, and it's... quite a ride
pretty sure the ISS is not supposed to do that
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RT @liamkennedy
I had forgotten I have a little old @Raspberry_Pi beside my desk creating timelapse videos of the ISS Live stream. It created this little masterpiece of the start of the #Nauka shenanigans yesterday. More info to follow /1
https://twitter.com/liamkennedy/status/1421354917504065536
on one hand, this is dumb
but I'm also really disturbed by the number of replies explicitly attacking the idea of general purpose computing
of course your phone should be able to run any app, it's your phone
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RT @erikfinman
Today I'm announcing the Freedom Phone.
This is the first major pushback on the Big Tech companies that attacked us - for just thinking different.
Complete with it's own Uncensorable App Store & Privacy Feat…
https://twitter.com/erikfinman/status/1415328529034715141
RT @ThePlanetaryGuy
Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's Earth.
From Mars.
I get the point, it's a useful insight about the world
but like
did this really need a graph
really cool work on potential sources of lunar carbon- I'd honestly written lunar carbon SRU off entirely, but Kevin makes a good point that there's nontrivial amounts in the poles, at least for early exploration
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RT @kmcannon
What would it take to refuel a @SpaceX #Starship on the Moon with methalox propellant? In light of the HLS selection I put up a preprint exploring this question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13521.pdf
https://twitter.com/kmcannon/status/1387755798533525509
RT @antirobust
daily reminder to build the spacelevator
and other advanced technologies that will help humanity thrive & survive far into the future
RT @roguewpa
from Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay, _In the Beginning Was the Command Line_ https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1374589809344266243
RT @SamuelGWalters
Writing the electromagnetic field as a complex function we can rewrite Maxwell's equations more simply and thereby better see its invariance under the gauge group U(1) (which is the unit circle in the complex plane). #physics #math #electrodynamics #calculus
This paraphrasing of Soros' reflexivity principle from https://allenfarrington.medium.com/the-complex-markets-hypothesis-44c2b2b191d2 is probably the clearest statement of it I've come across.
This was really cool! Like so much complexity stuff, I don't know what it *means*, exactly, but a lot of bits and pieces- like the idea that smaller animals would have much less of a sense of height- that are just neat
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RT @sfiscience
On the latest #ComplexityPodcast, @DoctorBugs (@Harvard /@NMNH) takes us to the treetops to talk #CanopyBiology, the hidden order of structural #Ecology, and what a careful study of #Ants can teach us …
https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1355202424399605770
Joined Jan 2021
