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> A knowledge that got lost during the dark ages.

Any examples of that? I've heard it called a myth.


Google “the Galileo Affair”.

I suggest you read about it again. It was about geo-centric vs helio-centric models. It was not about flat vs globe.

The geo-centric model assumed the earth was spherical but it didn't rotate or otherwise move.


True, I didn't follow the thread closely, my bad.

I meant specifically that the Earth is roughly ball shaped.

That's not really how hibernation works in mammals, they have to raise their body temperature and come out of hibernation every couple weeks, the leading theory is this is to (ironically) catch up on sleep.

Inducing torpor would have major medical uses in surgical and emergency medicine, it's not just useful for passing the time.


> as seen with existing cold temperature superconductors which a room temperature one could certainly replace and become a commercial success in doing so.

High temperature superconductors are only seeing commercial use in the last few years (after their discovery in the 80s) due to issues like poor ductility.


Is a 400C superconductor also inevitable?

Given enough pressure it already exists!

When you're playing candy crush and FSD kills someone, whether or not it's drives better than the average driver is not something the judge and prosecutor are going to consider.

First, that’s because FSD is legally only L2 and thus legally you are required to pay attention. It has nothing to do with the engineering realities of the impact on improving safety.

When L5 becomes available then this becomes a different calculus. And it’s honestly questionable about how good the characterization actually is since Tesla’s L2 FSD seems to outperform Mercedes’s L3 and it’s more a matter of the liability the manufacturer is willing to take on vs objective measurements of quality.


Not paying attention while FSD drives for you ended with a motorcyclist crushed to death under a Tesla, and a manslaughter charge for the driver near me this summer.

> I would not recommend eating a bowel of it.

One of the worst ways to eat anything



> I don't think the top quartile of the US exercises 3 hours a day!

Moderate exercise, plenty of people are on their feet all day for work.


How are they thawing from the inside out?


We use glucose to generate energy that we burn metabolically to keep themselves warm all the time. I assume that the frogs can do it also partially.


this seems implausible to me based on how heat generally transfers...


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