this is really interesting
How big can an agricultural society can get before it leaves identifiable archeological records- irrigation structures, etc? Could small communities have repeatedly discovered and lost (or discarded) farming through human history?
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RT @SamoBurja
Nearly 12,000 years ago, an unknown people built stone buildings and towering pillars at a site in Turkey called Göbekli Tepe.
In my new article for @palladiummag…
https://twitter.com/SamoBurja/status/1394338354590846982
this is true
this is why most of the funky biohacking shit from the teens has mostly converged to "work out and get a good night's sleep, for christ's sake"
also, sunlight on waking is basically magic
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RT @pee_zombie
the biggest privilege we don't talk about is sleep privilege
sometimes I realize that so many people just... don't properly get a good night's sleep regularly and there fucking tragic
yall really out here trying to b…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1390347854401753090
potentially another point in favor of the cold traps being worth it, even though exploring them is hard
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
The filtering (primarily to inject advertising, but also through being where people come for recommendations/discovery/to get discovered) is where the value is
I've seen a couple people say stuff along these lines, and it's really interesting to think about
I have no idea how to make the incentives work out, though- right now it seems that you're directly at odds with the platforms
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RT @egregirls
oh god in the process of talking about what kind of social media would optimize for users rather than engagement I thought what if users could define their own filter algos. make some presets, but …
https://twitter.com/egregirls/status/1386837349070426112
RT @antirobust
daily reminder to build the spacelevator
and other advanced technologies that will help humanity thrive & survive far into the future