True, but the comparison with old technology makes the video more interesting. The replacement for the hydraulic actuators and also the twin scanning system are motivated by the historical development.
Replying to your first point. There is actually a new branch of science called extreme event attribution [1]. Basically all weather events are now analysed to see how much more probable they are due to climate change. You are right one event might be anecdotal and could also have happened without climate change. But looking at the frequency of these events, the probability of extrem weather events has risen. In other words what was a once in a hundred years flood is now a once in ten years flood - keep in mind this is an example and a once in a hundred years flood can of course happen more often.
What I am trying to say is we can attribute the trend of extrem weather events to climate change. So the argument that Fiona is more probable in a world with climate change than in a world without climate change is legit.
Modern nanotechnology is a multi disciplinary approach using effects on the nanoscale for new technologies. Therefore people from different fields come together to synthesis, simulate, analyse etc. nanoparticles/systems. Of course in the media nanotechnology is this big catch all word, where everybody immediately thinks about self replicating nanomachines - this is still fiction.
Eventhough nanotechnology has not fullfilled this science fiction promise of atom precise manipulation the result are still astonishing. Just to name a few: Computerchips, memorychips, displays, catalysts, composite materials, surface coatings…
12gb on mobil. Landline is without a cap, but I heard if you consistently download 5-10Tbs per Month, customer service might call and ask if you want a „better“ contract ; )
Those were the measured speed +-3 Mbps. Sometimes inside of buildings my connection also drops back down to edge but I think this got way better in the last 2-3 years.
Do you use a digital labbook? If so what do you use?
I am currently trying MS OneNote. Just pasting everything in. Pictures, screengrabs, thoughts parameters. But I am wondering if there is a better alternative.
I had some fun with this. After a while you can find a lot of clues to spot the ai picture. I looked at ca. 15 pictures and got two wrong. Then this happened: https://pasteboard.co/JFldXA6.png
Sorry for posting a picture - the picture shows one normal face and one not quite so normal. Guess which is the real face : )
This is the problem with historic games. Either you acknowledge the bad and good things, or you white wash the past. As the author notes at the end:
„As I have argued here many times, fiction is often how the public conceptualizes the past and that concept of the past shapes the decisions we make in the present.“
Maybe thinking about lightspeed as the upper speed limit helps? You could also think about the clock experiment by Hafele and Keating where two synchronised clocks where flown all over the globe and after a while they disagreed with each other.
Or the popsci answer: Things that move fast get more massiv and time gets slower for them, at the speed of light time stops. Without time no speed.
Wow! I was asked by a friend if dead/flat batteries were weighing less, since I was working a little bit with batteries. Back then I dismissed it as utter nonsense. But I still googled the question because you never know right? and I stumbled upon either this article or a similar one: https://www.quora.com/Is-a-charged-battery-heavier-than-a-de...
After finding and reading an answer that agreed with my initial assessment I never continued to investigate why my friend would make such a claim, but now I guess it was related to this phenomenon. Guess I owe somebody an apology. Crazy how somethings seem so outlandish that I did not even ask myself if this was possible or what fundamental differences there are between batteries of different states of charge. Also it would have been quite easy to test this in retrospective...
Note to myself: I should be more careful and curious in the future!
I was also confused. I thought this article was about how the cold fusion hobbyist movement is dying down because the topic is becoming unpopular. Fusion and cold fusion are discussed from time to time here, so it is not super obvious.
Saw this video explaining in a HN comment why stronger magnets and a different approach might make fusion work. After ca. 22:00 Minutes he is done with the fusion basics and explains the new approach. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
Saw this on HN a while back. It also uses the socratic method to teach electronics, but student are supposed to look up the answers to these questions to deepen their understanding and progress from there.
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/
Yes the effects were great. Especially the city, but come on how could the story in the movie be sooo weak! Instead of an kickass army verteran we got Scarlett Johannson playing a little girl.
