[OC] A wind turbine during sunset
LostXOR
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This original story was sourced to MSN, who has since deleted their story. According to Snopes.com, this story has since been identified as a hoax.
The main question is unanswerable as it couldn't happen without fundamentally changing physics in some way. However, the other one is a lot more interesting.
On a large scale, one in ten atoms vanishing would decrease both the density and mass of most objects by 10%. This would also decrease their gravity by 10%, resulting in all orbits becoming significantly more (or less) eccentric. I imagine the changes would be enough to destabilize some solar systems, potentially causing planets to perturb each other's orbits until they collide or end up being ejected from the system.
The change in density also means that gravitationally bound objects that are held up by internal pressure (like planets and stars) would collapse slightly as their internals are re-compressed to their original density. The collapse would release a lot of energy, heating up planets significantly and (just guessing here) maybe causing a burst of fusion in stars as they're temporarily compressed past their equilibrium point.
All of that is pretty bad news for life on Earth, but the worst is what happens chemically. Some molecules are just going to become different molecules when one or more of their atoms disappears. Take water, for example; a water molecule has an 8.1% chance to become a hydrogen molecule, an 8.1% chance to become a (highly reactive) hydroxide ion, and a 0.9% chance to become a (highly reactive) single oxygen atom. 18% of nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere would also become single atoms and promptly react violently. These molecular changes would instantly kill all life on Earth (and anywhere else). There's simply no possible way for an organism to survive so many reactive molecules being introduced throughout itself. Not to mention that all DNA would be irreparably damaged from the random deletions too.
I'm sure there are some other effects that I haven't thought of, but those are definitely the most noticeable ones.
Gotta review the 5 line PR ten times just to make absolutely totally sure there's nothing wrong with it before submitting it.
As an actual human, can confirm I use my human fingertips to press the upvote button on the posts and comments I enjoy.
Now recursively create more layers until you have barely any free space left on the disk, then do some performance benchmarks. ;)
Then again, theres about 13 undiscovered, lost, still armed nuclear bombs that the Americans lost in test drops. Mostly dropped into oceans, they've been deteriorating away for 70ish years. Wherever they are an earthquake could set them off. Maybe an aggressive shark. The point is, there are 13 points which we KNOW at some point, will set off a WWII era atomic bomb. This will have an unknown outcome, 13 different times. Any one of which might end Earth. Or maybe it causes some tidal waves. No one knows.
This is completely wrong. Lost nuclear bombs are not going to be functional in the slightest after decades, as they require very precisely timed detonation of explosive charges to actually trigger the main fission reaction. They're not like chemical bombs, which will explode with enough heat or pressure. And after decades the circuitry to control the explosive charges will be long dead.
The sportswear manufacturer Mizuno has developed a special fabric it says will deter voyeurs from secretly using infrared cameras that produce a “see-through” effect.
The fact that people do this enough to warrant a special fabric to prevent it is absolutely disgusting.
That comes after the election, of course!
Who needs private variables when you can generate cryptographically secure variable names? Much better security.
That's too easy to filter out, use believable data at least. Seems like a great task for a language model!
It's completely insane that the tool would attempt to connect to a nonexistent bucket for backups by default instead of just... having them disabled completely?
What's even up with that guy? What's he trying to accomplish? Spammers confuse me.
There's always the carefully applied soldering iron.
If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.
Things like this make me glad I don't use Windows.
No compiler optimizations? How unfortunate.
Joke's on you, I've won the game.
That makes sens- Wait a minute...
Gotta put on those invisible tracking codes.
That's definitely possible, but is way more expensive than using an existing system like GPS.
According to every site ever I was born on Jan 1, 2000.
To be fair to them, that is pretty close to how immunity actually works. Not quite there though.
Technically the photon is being absorbed and re-emitted inside the star, so it's not exactly the same photon.
That's really cool. Much of the hype around AI tends to focus on it acting like an intelligent human (which it doesn't do very well), but glosses over stuff like this (which it can do very well).
A bit too late for me, I arrived in the path of totality yesterday. I traveled to see the annular eclipse last October and it was absolutely amazing. I'm sure this one is going to be even better!
Update: It was, hands down, the best thing I've ever seen. Don't listen to the blog lol.
The article says 10MB/s minimum write speed, which would take 4.6 days to transfer 4TB, so... yeah. Even with the "max theoretical transfer rates" of 104MB/s (which is probably just read if anything) that's still almost 11 hours.
What a mean thing to say! I have been inflamed.
I just grabbed the original program from Wikipedia and put it in a code block.
NOAA's predicting a Kp index of 8.33, hopefully we'll get some good auroras tonight!
You're partially right. Gavity has infinite range, so a distant star does exert some force on you. And that force is present regardless of other gravitational fields like the Earth or Sun. However it's many orders of magnitude weaker than the force from the Earth and Sun so it's pretty much irrelevant.
Pretty much every web browser except Firefox is just Chromium with some extra crap slapped on it, they're all functionally the same.
Why did they put that button in such an annoying spot to press? If you're going to add a pointless button at least put it on the thumb side, like almost every other mouse in existence.
Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they're actually getting.
It's great, just give your cloud servers public IPs and you get tons of completely free vulnerability scans! This life hack has saved me tens of thousands of dollars in pentesting.
Even better, use an AI to generate the misinformation to save you time (and get even dumber misinformation).
An AA battery has around 10kJ of energy; spread over a decade that's 31 microwatts of power. No way they're doing useful computations with that.
And to shut down the day of a total solar eclipse? That's extra mean.
I'd assume they'll tell ISPs to block TikTok's domains/IPs. It won't stop determined people but it's realistically the best they can do.
They're not necessarily accidental (for example, taking long exposures during a meteor shower), but yes the vast majority of meteor pictures are by chance. A few meteors have been detected just before entry and photographed but that number is in the single digits.
Looks like the backticks in the program messed up the formatting a bit, here's it with fixed formatting.
Not that it's any more intelligible. :D