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  • 17.6m was probably the maximum allowed width, but it was possible to pass through with bigger ships, but my guess is that insurance companies would not like it very much

  • What's the greatest invention of 21st century, in your opinion?
  • We are in a time where a single invention can rarelt be great. For technological development you need thousands of small inventions, each that use previous technological breakthrough through decades of research. And even great things we have, are just refinement and miniaturization of things we already had.

    But if a single thing had to be said, I would say mRNA vaccines. Covid vaccines saved milions of lives, were developed in record times, and their technology could be used for HIV or even antitumoral vaccines.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • And let's not forget that fueling your car requires a tank, a decently sized pump and 2 minutes of your time. A quick charge will hopefully charge your battery to 80% in 30 minutes, while giving you less km and running 300kW of power through hefty cables and big transformers, consuming the amount of energy that a family house consumes in a few days.

    (And yes, battery manufacturing and disposal consume enormous amount of resources)

    Electric and gas have different situations in which they shine. Gas/diesel engines are just a bunch of steel and some control chips, optimized in more thana century of technological development if we couls develop carbon neutral fuel, electric cars would not be needed. Unfortunately, it woulf be difficult to do at scale of current fuel consumption. More (electric, battery-less) public transport, less road goods transportation, more nuclear, electric for vehicles that move 100% of the time (delivery and logistic vehicles) and carbon-free fuel for other kinds of vehicles (personal transportation) is a good balance, in my personal, ignorant, armchair opinion.

  • 40 years of Boston Dynamics
  • That usually means they got to a high level of refinement they don't need to upgrade, because there's some kind of incredibly difficult obstacle to overcome (like today's lithium batteries that have not developed much in the last decade), or it's such a good design that they developed the base for the next decades of humanoid robots models (just think of a pen that has been the same for a century, because it's as good as it gets)

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    Collapse is inevitable because of ignorant, dumb people? I think there are ways to address this. Here are my suggestions.
  • Iq tests are only statistical in nature, the median score (100) is constatly readjusted because it was noticed that if older criterias were maintained the median kept increasing over time. This could be explained even by a higher level of average eucation. By definition, the "low functioning part" (iq<70) will always be the minority. Because the score is changed so that the tails are always a specific percentage of the total polutation, so using an iq test is already flawed.

    Also, people don't ruin the world because they are stupid, they do so because of egoism and lack of foreshadowing (not caused by stupidity but again by egosim)

  • Because it takes slightly less mental energy to sit and stress than to do the thing.
  • You can try ans give motivation, offer emotional support, sometimes even offer to do the thing together (sometimes just arranging a thing is a good way to not let it slide), but forcing will have the opposite effect and will only add to the internal pressure that is already there (but you won't probably see) and that is not enough. Of course it depends on the person, you can also ask your friend, as long as you accept the answer as a fact with no judgement (it's not easy but probably it will be appreciated)

  • escape rule
  • I'm sorry but I think that's stupid lol. A bear is an incredibly dangerous creature. Being in the woods with a bear means very likely death. A random stranger will likeyly be kind and decently good.

  • You ever recover a lost memory?
  • I have a small candy tin that i brought around to keep small toys when we travelled across countries with my family. Every couple or so years I open it and it still smells of strawberry after 15+ years, and I immediately run through my childhood travels

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  • The Kelvin line of movies is 100% non canon in my head. It's good they made a separate parallel universe, so I can pretend it never happened and just go on enjoying the rest of the trek

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