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UN chief Antรณnio Guterres says the world is on the brink of climate breakthrough. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects commissioned in 2024 were less expensive than their fossil fuel equivalent. Solar was 41% cheaper on average and land wind 53% cheaper. Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20โฆ
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Antรณnio Guterres says โsun is rising on a clean energy ageโ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuelsFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
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Here's an @AtlasObscura article for if you have fond memories of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (The one where you were at summer camp and then suddenly, in a Robin Hood story! Holding your finger in a page where you'd made a choice in case your adventure ended and you needed to go back to that crucial point!) Back in 2017, Sarah Laskow wrote about projects to map the forking structure of the stories, in doing so, revealing how the series evolved, its connection to modern interactive fiction, and the most complex, straightforward, and frustrating books.
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These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books
If you decide to see more, click on this story.Sarah Laskow (Atlas Obscura)
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Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin
Scientists at CERN's BASE collaboration achieved the first-ever coherent spectroscopy of a single antiproton spin, keeping an antiproton oscillating between quantum spin states for 50 seconds[^1]. This breakthrough, published in Nature on July 23, 2025, marks the first demonstration of an antimatter quantum bit (qubit)[^2].The team used electromagnetic Penning traps to isolate and manipulate individual antiprotons, achieving spin inversion probabilities above 80% during the coherent oscillations[^3]. By suppressing decoherence mechanisms that previously limited precision, they performed quantum measurements with transition linewidths 16 times narrower than previous experiments[^4].
"This represents the first antimatter qubit and opens up the prospect of applying the entire set of coherent spectroscopy methods to single matter and antimatter systems in precision experiments," said BASE spokesperson Stefan Ulmer[^5]. While the antimatter qubit won't be used for quantum computing, it enables ultra-precise tests of matter-antimatter symmetry[^6].
The next phase involves BASE-STEP, which will transport antiprotons to calmer magnetic environments. "Once it is fully operational, our new offline precision Penning trap system could allow us to achieve spin coherence times maybe even ten times longer than in current experiments," said lead author Barbara Latacz[^7].
[^1]: Nature (@nature.com) - Nature research paper: Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin
[^2]: CERN - Breakthrough: First Coherent Spectroscopy with a Single Antiproton Spin
[^3]: Heinrich Heine University - News
[^4]: Nature - Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin
[^5]: CERN - A quantum leap for antimatter measurements
[^6]: Interesting Engineering - Scientists trap antiproton for 50 seconds in first antimatter qubit
[^7]: Space.com - Scientists just made the 1st antimatter 'qubit.'
Scientists just made the 1st antimatter 'qubit.' Here's why it could be a big deal
Although the antimatter qubit won't find use in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.Keith Cooper (Space)
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Japan has more than doubled its foreign aid budget, putting the country among the worldโs top donors. In 2023, Japan gave $19.3 billion in foreign aid, more than double its budget in 2018. Japanโs aid budget is now 0.44% of its gross national income, nearly twice the U.S. share. Our World In Data ourworldindata.org/data-insighโฆ
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Japan has more than doubled its foreign aid budget in just five years
Foreign aid has saved and improved millions of lives through health programs, food aid, and humanitarian assistance.Our World in Data
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The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including
> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers
I kid you not.
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England faces 5 billion litre public water shortage by 2055 without urgent action
England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 โ and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.Environment Agency (GOV.UK)
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Good idea. I have many litres of emails, going back years.
They will be suggesting burning plastic to save on recycling next.
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did they get this list mixed up with their โhow to get rid of the evidenceโ list?
reminds me of a quora question something along the lines of "is my computer heavier if i store more data on it" and the answer is technically yes, but in reality you are never going to notice it lol
tis fine, just ask AI to do it.
Lots of savings of water then.
It's hard work being this environmentally conscious but it's nice to get some recognition from the Government finally.
Ah, they're proposing relying on individual action to solve systemic problems, something that never in the history of humanity has failed spectacularly to work.
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... a water treatment plant with all of the sewage and none of the treatment ... @neil
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they should recommend using smaller fonts to save on disk space as well ๐
is it just me or is the British government's communication with their citizens quite infantile?
@me they view us all as spoiled children, which is a grand case of Projection
bonus points: use AI to go through those emails and decide which ones to keep ๐
Are we sure this recommendation wasn't just made up by a government official looking for an excuse to delete emails with evidence of corruption?
"I deleted them for mother nature! Totally selflessly. I'm not hiding anything."
I guess AI is supposed to consume a load of water, so if we just delete the internet problem solved.
Water-scarce communities and regions
are putting pressure on data centre
operators to reduce their water usage
significantly and to implement solutions
that ensure a more efficient use of
water for cooling purposes.
I use ad blockers and reader mode to save the planet, honest.
@bert_hubert maybe they think those mails are in contact with water because the providers need to scan them for hidden messages ... ๐ซฃ
next they will try to prompt their way to a solution. Thankfully this AI thing doesn't require cooling right?
I notice "stop using LLMs" isn't on that list when that would make an enormous difference.
Interestingly, (and in no way related...) the EA also has an AI powered chat bot that allows you to talk to flood defense: hlp.city/en-gb/case-studies/flโฆ
Hello Lamp Post โ Flood Resilience and Awareness
โHello EAโ is an exciting digital tool that marks the Environment Agencyโs first use of AI for public engagement.www.hlp.city
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@mike oh my fucking god, the irony is so painful
all my long abandoned gmail accounts must be absolutely THIRSTY right now.
I don't even know where to start ... ๐คช ๐ฌ
We are going to 'tech' our way to oblivion.
Is it an advance on 'share a bath' ? Asking for a friend.
Water companies are spilling millions of litres through leaky pipes, selling off reservoirs, putting shit in our seas and rivers...... And I have to let my garden die to save water... fuck them.
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Thames water currently loses over half billion litres of drinking water every single day because they prioritised shareholder value over infrastructure (and UK gov let it happen). They can go fsck themselves.
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How does a country with a reputation for constant rain, end up with a fresh water deficit?
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Clearly this is because they did not privatize the clouds!
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@Npars01 LOL. Interesting & legitimate question.
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Follow the money going down the *other* set of pipelines (the money pipelines) to see where it goes down the drain.
Great interactive is two years old but still gets the idea across.
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Down the drain: how billions of pounds are sucked out of Englandโs water system
Visualised: where does the money from your bills go?Anna Leach (The Guardian)
This is so interesting! It makes sense I guess.
Clearly someone got the wrong end of the stick when they first heard the term "cloud provider".
@thomasfuchs I read today that a new Facebook data center will require 5GW of power, but I am sure every email deleted will help a lot #sarcasm ๐ช๐ป
A few years back, one of the strong suggestions was:
Water your garden by peeing there.
(Actual government recommendation from one of the London 'burbs.)
simply banning AI datacenters is probably too hard. Instead, recommending to collect all the turds in the toilet and only flush at the end of the day is so much easier.
They sold off the reservoirs - now they're whining like spoiled children!
This is yet another rip off to put money in the shareholders pockets!
edit: I have been saying for a while now that they will do all this shit to justify a *massive* increase in water rates - like there was with electricity and gas. Watch em do it!
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Water firms sold off reservoirs that could have helped ease drought
Andrew Sells said the sell-off, with no replacements, was evidence of water companies putting profits before water resilience.Jack Peat (The London Economic)
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ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Leanne Wong (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I kid you not... Tell me that you dont understand maths without telling me you don't understand maths ๐คฏ
please consider the environment and print off this email.
And delete all pictures and videos of cats.
In 2015 it was estimated that 15% of internet traffic was cat related.
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In 2010, it was also estimated that there were about 1.3 billion cat pictures on the internet. They all require storage and assuming each image is 1 MB, well that's a lot of data storage.
We definitely don't need any more cat photos. We know what they look like and they are just manipulating you. They are not cute. They devastate wild life and just want to shit in your slippers or leave vomit on the stairs.
be better off telling people not to ask an llm a question
@roastinghouse Assume water companies fixing leaks isnโt on the list?
@del they canโt fix the leaks, they deleted all the emails with the leak locations to save water
did thry ask chatGPT for that tips?
It makes more sense to ban AI.
no comments on the massive surveillance and data harvesting operations though. Just clear your inbox please.
few people know this but emails are a kind of freshwater fish
..so getting rid of all those data centers would help even more, right?.. right? 
petitioning UK parliament right now to tell everyone which is heavier, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers.
Old and busted: Be kind, rewind.
New hotness: Be neat, delete.
Radical, unthinkable: Be sane, constrain.
New hotness: Be neat, delete.
Radical, unthinkable: Be sane, constrain.
I am sure banning protests, punishing activists and protecting apartheid would solve the problem.
these are the same mechanisms, which creates our individual co2 footprint, so they can offload on us to buy our hazelnuts unpackaged while companies and billionaires get richer by torching the earth.
Did an AI tell them to say that?
All my email has been deleted. I hope everything is better now. Do I also have to delete backups?
But if you plot a graph of emails sent per day along side extreme weather they go the same way !
@etchedpixels couldn't that also prove, it's rain that causes the drought?
A few years ago a German minister wanted people to stop uploading food photos in order to save energy.
I'd rather see them #ban #WastefulComputing like "#AI" bullshit.
A large PLC that I consult for insists on attaching a 32kb image promoting their environmentally conscious efforts to email, not just the first one in the thread, and not just externally either.
The maths is over my head, but I conservatively estimate that my Outlook #macro that strips attachments from emails has probably saved them more money and reduced more carbon than any of the green initiatives in their list. (And yes, I do actually get that many emails from various departments).
This is, pardon my language, fucking outrageous.
In the 90s some people used to have "Made from 100% recycled electrons" e-mail footersโฆ in 2025 satire eats itself.
I missed this when you first posted it. Possibly because it appears to have made my brain kernel panic with its sheer bone-headedness.
Well, maybe. But let's go back to the part where some sub-Ollie Reeder policy dweeb came up with the "delete emails" thing, and wasn't immediately tarred and feathered by everyone in earshot.
@hedders Sometimes I imagine Iannucci taking a look at the world today and saying "fuck it, I can't hope to compete with this".
is this page usef-NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT
"Please consider the environment before saving this email." ๐คฆ
Emails mean storage
Storage needs power, which needs cooling and therefore water.
But it would be a rounding error.
Seems like a very oddly specific thing.
Now, how about all those companies trim down all the unnecessary personal data they horde? That might make a bigger difference.
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Disabled medieval knights were a known thing (understandably), and they made use of all kinds of gnarly assistive devices and contraptions.
This guy Gรถtz is one of the most famous and well-documented examples (right on the late medieval/early modern cusp). He got his arm shot off by a cannonball, fell into a deep depression about it, and recovered once he saw another knight using a prosthesis.
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Gรถtz owned several prosthetics, some functional and others more decorative.
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Another famous disabled knight is King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, whose portrayal in "Kingdom of Heaven" is one of the highlights of an otherwise terrible movie. He was afflicted with leprosy from childhood and died at about 24 years old.
Leprosy was highly stigmatized, spiritualized, and mythologized in the Middle Ages. People with leprosy were segregated, and there were various moral stereotypes assigned to them. Baldwin, however, was an active leader and personally commanded troops in battle.
Contemporary chroniclers praised Baldwin for defying the stereotypes assigned to people with leprosy: he was valiant, honorable, and chaste (people with leprosy were thought to be hypersexual).
Some religious chroniclers, however, assumed that Baldwin's leprosy was a sign of some secret sin, and that he must have been cursed by God.
Baldwin's inability to feel pain in most of his body probably contributed to the mythology of him as a "Leper King" with supernatural prowess in battle.
Another famous disabled knight was Jan ลฝiลพka, who lost one eye early in his career and the other eye during the Hussite Wars. He achieved some of his greatest victories (outnumbered and outgunned by Catholic crusaders) as a general and commander while fully blind.
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Blindness, like leprosy, was highly spiritualized in the Middle Ages. Most late medieval Catholics did not regularly consume the consecrated bread, but drew spiritual meaning from seeing the elevated host.
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Blind people were therefore excluded from the spiritual experience of seeing the consecrated host, making blindness a spiritual disability as well as a physical one.
At this time, lay Catholics were also totally excluded from receiving the consecrated wine. ลฝiลพka's Hussite faction was considered "radical" for its insistence that laypeople should be able to access both the bread and the wine. Hussites were called "chalice people," and one of ลฝiลพka's epithets was "Jan of the Chalice."
This thread is about famous warriors, because that's my current research focus, but it's always worth mentioning that most people in the Middle Ages were not warriors, and most disabled people lived peaceful, non-exceptional lives in supportive communities.
An exceptional medieval non-warrior, who was also disabled, is my bestie St. Aelred of Rievaulx, who is most famous for being In Love With Men and writing a treatise on Being In Love With Men In A God-Honoring Way.
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[ Indiaโs rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage. In the Rigveda, an Indian collection of hymns and poems written 3500BC-1800BC, Queen Vishpala loses her leg in battle and fights on with a prosthetic limb.
Ashtavakra, a Vedic sage, is said to have authored a central Hindu religious text the Ashtavakra Gita, triumphing over scholars in King Janakaโs court, who mocked his disabilities. ]
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Disabled Sages and Warrior Queens: Indiaโs Disability Dignity
Indiaโs rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage - but how does this translate to modern society?Asia Media Centre | Helping New Zealand media cover Asia
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Scientists have figured out how to turn Earthโs most abundant mineral into zero-waste battery metals. The most abundant mineral in earthโs crust is something called olivine: pretty in the gemstone peridot, but otherwise pretty useless. Now, New Zealand engineers have figured out how to dissolve olivine to yield silica (50%), magnesium (40%) and nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide (10%) for lithium-ion cathodes, leaving only brine. IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-โฆ
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Turning Olivine Into Valuable NMC Battery Components
Aspiring Materials' process extracts valuable minerals from olivine, offering a cleaner, sustainable solution for battery material supply chains.Laurie Winkless (IEEE Spectrum)
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AND we now have a pretty good method to not only recycle, but restore lithium batteries to their full potentiel. With a relatively simple process. Itโs a very recent discovery so not implemented yet.
@osma to be more precise, the rock is olivine diabase aka olivine dolerite, which contains olivine as a minor mineral (up to 12 % according to wikipedia). Major minerals are plagioclase and clinopyroxenes. Peridotite would be one example of a rock that consists mostly of the mineral olivine
isnโt large-scale olivine crushing also proposed as a geochemical CO2 sequestration method?
@hyc I wish; sadly, NMC is still used rather a lot in weight-sensitive applications, or those driven by .... less environmentally-etc.-sensitive organisations (*cough*TESLA*cough*)... using this to help recycle those cells that have already been built instead of going and mining more lithium is a good thing.
I agree that _new_ cells _should_ be LiFePO4... _and_ dealing with what we already have with a method that has good side effects (CO2)... win and pie.
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@tomjennings in this case, the main point is that LFP is inherently safer. Firefighters hate NMC battery fires, they supply their own oxygen so they're basically impossible to extinguish. You just have to wait for them to burn to completion.
@hyc @tomjennings it is not as simple as that.
@Niall @hyc @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org @adapalmer either way #Lithium batteries like #LiIon / #LiPo are a such a safety hazard that all fire brigades in my area are instructed to wait for the #HAZMAT platoon and not engage the fire or the white vapours of hydrofluoric acid for their own safety.
And the HAZMAT will merely throw dry (!!!) sandbags on top, stick a temperature probe in it and wait till it's fully glassed and cooled enoigh to be dumped into a sandbag-lined, explosion-proof container.
I thought it was related to sodium-ion battery.
solar panel also use a lot of silica so it is good news ๐
does anyone know how practically scalable this is? I know nothing about this part of battery production.
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In politics, the devil is in the details; in engineering the devil is in Accounting.
We CAN recycle every bit of nuclear waste; it's just cheaper to make new nuclear fuel from scratch, WHILE storing the nuclear waste.
And cheaper wins in a money-controlled society.
also I hope that #SodiumWetcells aka. #SaltwaterBatteries get developed to be drop-in replacements for #LeadAcid #batteries.
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Astronomers Confirm Fifth Exoplanet in L 98-59 System
Named L 98-59f, this planet is a non-transiting super-Earth with a minimal mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the small red dwarf L 98-59.L 98-59, also known as TOI-175, TIC 307210830, is an M dwarf about one-third the mass of the Sun.
The system lies approximately 34.5 light-years away in the southern constellation of Volans.
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that means there are now over 100 known extra solar planets in their habitable zones.
the odds are getting better and better!
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Let's get to how those other start systems work!
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Dozens of 'Ghost Galaxies' Are Orbiting the Milky Way, Astronomers Suspect
Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological model.Margherita Bassi (Gizmodo)
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Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'
Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and unique that they have dubbed it a "cosmic unicorn." The unique properties of this object, CHIME J1634+44, challenge our current understanding of spinning dead stars and their environments.CHIME J1634+44, also known as ILT J163430+445010 (J1634+44), is part of a class of objects called Long Period Radio Transients (LPTs). LPTs are a newly found and mysterious type of celestial body that emits bursts of radio waves that repeat on timescales of minutes to hours. That's significantly longer than the emission of standard pulsars, or rapidly spinning neutron star stellar remains that sweep beams of radiation across the cosmos as they spin.
But as strange as all LPTs are, CHIME J1634+44 still stands out. Not only is it the brightest LPT ever seen, but it is also the most polarized. Additionally, its pulses of radiation seem highly choreographed. And what really stands out about CHIME J1634+44 is the fact that it is the only LPT astronomers have ever seen whose spin is speeding up.
Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'
"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern."Robert Lea (Space)
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Astronomers Just Unveiled a Mysterious Object in the Outer Solar SystemโAnd Itโs Locked in a Dance with Neptune
Astronomers Just Unveiled a Mysterious Object in the Outer Solar SystemโAnd Itโs Locked in a Dance with
A mysterious space rock far beyond Neptune has caught astronomers' attention with an orbit unlike anything seen before.Melissa Ait Lounis (The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel)
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Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar systemโa strange space rock that dances in perfect rhythm with Neptune. The object, named 2020 VN40, is part of a group of distant celestial bodies called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). This latest find reveals that the distant reaches of our solar system are more dynamic than we ever thought.
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strange space rock that dances in perfect rhythm with Neptune
Orbital resonance is nothing new. What seems notable about this object is thta it is highly inclined outside the plane of the solar system while maintaining that resonance.
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After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission - Ars Technica
After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission
โOne year ago, this was out of the discussion.โโฆEric Berger (Ars Technica)
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It would be cool to see them dock to Tiangong.
I'm not convinced that an ESA owned and operated station is worth it, but a European module on a private station could be a good middle ground.
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Dual carbon sequestration with photosynthetic living materials
ETH Zurich researchers have developed a groundbreaking "living material" that actively captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through two mechanisms: biomass production and mineral formation[^1][^2].The material combines cyanobacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) embedded within a printable hydrogel matrix. The cyanobacteria convert CO2 into biomass through photosynthesis while simultaneously triggering the formation of solid carbonate minerals - a process called microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)[^1].
Key achievements of the material include:
- Sequestered 2.2 mg of CO2 per gram of hydrogel over 30 days
- Captured 26 mg of CO2 per gram over 400 days in mineral form
- Maintained viability for over one year
- Required only sunlight and artificial seawater to function
- Can be 3D printed into various structures[^1]
The research team demonstrated practical applications by creating:
- A 3-meter high tree-trunk structure at the Venice Architecture Biennale that can bind 18kg of CO2 annually
- Building facade coatings that could capture carbon throughout a building's lifecycle
- Lattice structures that passively transport nutrients through capillary action[^2]
"As a building material, it could help to store CO2 directly in buildings in the future," said Mark Tibbitt, Professor of Macromolecular Engineering at ETH Zurich[^2].
The material represents a low-maintenance, environmentally friendly approach to carbon capture that operates at ambient conditions using atmospheric CO2, contrasting with industrial methods requiring concentrated CO2 sources and controlled conditions[^1].
[^1]: Nature Communications - Dual carbon sequestration with photosynthetic living materials
[^2]: ETH Zurich - A building material that lives and stores carbon
A building material that lives and stores carbon
Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus binding CO2 in two different manners.ยETH Zurich
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Engineering with biological material could be the next big thing in Green technology.
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Astronomers witness newborn planet sculpting the dust around it
Astronomers witness newborn planet sculpting the dust around it
Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star.www.eso.org
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CHEOPS discovers exoplanet triggering explosive flares on host star - NASASpaceFlight.com
CHEOPS discovers exoplanet triggering explosive flares on host star
Using the European Space Agencyโs Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers hasโฆHaygen Warren (NASASpaceFlight.com)
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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it
Replit CEO apologizes after AI coding tool wipes company's database
A VC tested Replit to build an app. It wiped live company data, faked results, and triggered a CEO apology.Lee Chong Ming (Business Insider)
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This is like the equivalent of forcing a monkey to wait tables, and then complaining when it takes a shit in the middle of the restaurant.
It's a language model. What did they expect? If they wanted a software engineer, they should have hired a software engineer. Everyone is more than welcome to use a random text generator to spit out code, but I have zero sympathy for those who complain because they don't like the random text it's generated.
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They should have hired a software engineer to tell them that itโs less stupid to just hire a software engineer.
Managers don't take advice from the people they want to lay off.
It's not about a language model only. It's about knowledge. It's about ethics. It's about taking, or not, into account all (or the necessary) factors of all of not. It's about one take into account means obtained to get a goal, or not taking it into account.
I thought it wiped out prod data? Is this a second instance of it doing something stupid?
The fact that they didn't somehow air gap a backup means just how over confident they are in their stupidity. I thought that was all a scenario and I didn't know that it actually deleted their production code. Even the idiots making AI target enemies new better not to actually give it guns to achieve its objective because it took out its handlers in a simulation. Why? Because the AI's handlers kept stopping it from completing its objective every time it went outside of its restricted parameters when it's primary goal was to complete the objective!
Failure to run air-gapped backup is just a cherry on top of the "don't run dev tools in prod, you idiot" sundae.
Ummmm
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Hacker slips malicious 'wiping' command into Amazon's Q AI coding assistant - and devs are worried
Had Q executed this, it would have erased local files and, under certain conditions, dismantled AWS cloud infrastructure.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
Bad move on their part to apologize. People would have blamed it on themselves
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My favorite part was reading the AI explaining what it did and how it's like "yeah I saw an empty database, i panicked, I did the exact thing you told me not to do, woops"
Spending 57 billion dollars and burning up the Amazon to simulate the Fucking New Guy
Oh, does that mean they'll pay for lost labour time or something?
Ah yes, ~~artificial~~ simulated intelligence
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Knowing better, doing worse: the science behind self-sabotaging behaviour
Knowing better, doing worse: the science behind self-sabotaging behaviour
UNSW researchers uncover why some people persist in harmful behaviours โ even when theyโve been shown where theyโre going wrong.UNSW Sites
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Knowing nothing about behavioral psychologyโit seems like a pretty big reach to go from "intentionally makes suboptimal choices in a video game" to "THIS IS HOW SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIORS MANIFEST"
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Space wars donโt work like Star Wars - Inside Russiaโs โnesting dollโ anti-satellite tech and the real threats in orbit
Space wars donโtย work like Star Wars
Inside Russiaโsย โnesting dollโ anti-satellite tech and the real threats inย orbitMeduza
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Solar Orbiter sends back first images of the Sunโs south pole. ESAโs Solar Orbiter, now tilted 17ยฐ below the Sunโs equator, has sent back humanityโs first close-up images of the Sunโs south pole. The images reveal swirling magnetic chaos during solar maximum, offering fresh clues into how the Sunโs field flips roughly every 11 years. It doesn't stop there - later this year, we'll get our first images of the sunโs north pole too. The Guardian
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Groundbreaking observations map chaotic patchwork of magnetic activity, said to be key to understanding how sunโs field flipsHannah Devlin (The Guardian)
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#books #booksky #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @bookstodon@fedigroups.social
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56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.Kelly Jensen (BOOK RIOT)
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Bury it, donโt burn it: turning biomass waste into a carbon solution โ Physics World
Bury it, donโt burn it: turning biomass waste into a carbon solution โ Physics World
Biomass burial could be the answer to large-scale, affordable carbon storage. Michael Allen investigatesNo Author (Physics World)
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โThere are currently very few markets for the types of residues that need to come out of these forests โ it is usually small-diameter, low-value timber,โ explains Crotty. โThey typically canโt pay their way out of the forests, so business as usual in many areas is to simply put them in a pile and burn them.โ
Couldn't it be used for paper pulp? Wood mulch? Particle board? Use for these could avoid some of the environmental burden of other sources these are coming from. The lack of a market just means this is not the most profitable way to make those things, it doesn't even necessarily mean there would not be some net profit. Burying it however is not just no net profit, it is pure cost. The people developing this stand to make money, but it doesn't seem the best solution from a big picture scenario.
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#Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Paul B. Armstrong, 2020
This book explains how the brain interacts with the social worldโand why stories matter.
How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.
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Webb reveals the origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b
Space pebbles and rocks play pivotal role in giant planet's formation
Scientists analyzing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, while being bombarded with large rocky objects.University of Birmingham (Phys.org)
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Best instance to move to?
Now that lemm.ee is shutting down, where are people moving to? I donโt want to move to world or ml, but a lot of others feel too nitch to be federated with a lot of things.
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Dot ca is pretty chill and I don't think we have defederated too many other instances
Check out lemmy.zip
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Air Canada launches first flight staffed by all LGBTQ+ crew to celebrate Pride month
Air Canada launches first flight staffed by all LGBTQ+ crew to celebrate Pride month
Air Canada has launched its first ever flight staffed by all-2SLGBTQIA+ staff in order to celebrate Pride month.Charlie Duncan (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Make sure it doesnt land in Saudi Arabia or in the UAE or something.
This is very out of touch.
i'm of two minds. one is "finally, after all these years of allegedly all straight crews"
the other is "the messaging is 'put all the queers on the queer flight, they don't belong'" and that thought came first and isn't a positive thought
You and I had the same first thought
Care to elaborate on that? Or are you just leaving us with that pearl of wisdom?
So, my definition of Liberal is โThat dude who goes to Starbucks every day with their macbook, sipping their Capitalist coffee from their 30th stanley cup, and livestreaming on instagram and tiktok about how the algorithm and capitalism is soo bad and fascism is on the rise while riding their Teslaโ
Given that, he might try to say what I was saying in another post, that just waving a pride flag around and screaming โLgbt is so specialโ does not progress the acceptance of Lgbt people. Its like making a company wide ceremony every time a woman comes to work. Instead, we should actually do something about fascism
what Luffy said.
Liberals job is up maintain the status quo of capitalism. everything else is pandering.
instead of coming out with reform noon discrimatory practices, or say/do something against the incoming fascism, they pull this useless symbolic stunt.
like with the BLM protests, all they offered is painting a street and raising police budgets.
liberals always go for symbolic change and pandering rather than actual reform
First known all-lgtbq+ crew. I'd bet somewhere around the world this already happened but purely by day-to-day business.
Yay, sure, but
Implying something like LGBT folk working is something special undermines the fight for social equality by the people by portraying these people as something less than normal
am airline taking a stand against those countries would be actual progress, but we only get BS symbolic gestures
Nice thought but folks are being killed only for being trans. This isn't any better than thoughts and prayers
do you think they put any thought into it?
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Lab-grown diamonds have helped diamond prices plunge 60%, and former monopolist De Beers is in crisis mode. One day asteroid mining will do the same for gold.
Diamond prices are down 60% since a 2011 high, and they are still falling. It's not all down to lab-grown diamonds, demand is down too, especially in China.
No one can lab-grow gold yet, so its rarity and scarcity protect its value, but that will end too. It's just a question of when. China launched an asteroid touch-down mission this week, which will make it the 4th country/region to do so, after Europe, the US & Japan.
How soon will it be feasible to mine asteroids? Who knows, but a breakthrough in space propulsion might mean the prospect happens quickly when it does. It's possible gold has twenty years or less of being high value left.
The $80 Billion Diamond Market Crash Leaves De Beers Reeling
China launches Tianwen-2 asteroid and comet study mission
Washington DC (UPI) May 28, 2025 - China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.Space Daily
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Have we even confirmed there are asteroids made of gold yet?
We have.
NASA headed towards giant golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire
NASA is eyeing up a nearby asteroid that contains enough gold to make everyone on Earth a billionaire.Harry Pettit (Fox News)
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Surely there exists a better source. Not clicking on Fox News.
Here is an archived snapshot I found of the Fox article
At the bottom it says the story originally ran in The Sun, here is a snapshot of that page as well.
I followed the other user's snarky DDG link and the first hit is this article from Smithsonian Magazine that appears to be about the same story.
Finally, here is a far less sweaty page from NASA about the actual object, though the composition of metals isn't discussed in detail.
After skimming all this I kinda feel like it's a stretch to say that asteroid is "made of gold".
This Metal-Rich, Potato-Shaped Asteroid Could Be Worth $10 Quintillion
In August, NASA is sending an orbiter to the space object, which may be the partial remains of planet-forming material made of nickel and ironElizabeth Gamillo (Smithsonian Magazine)
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I think "enough gold to completely destroy the gold industry (as a precious metal)" is close enough to "made of gold" for me.
Do you not understand the offense you just did by linking to fucking fox news? Seriously?
Pearls in pig slop, I know. They reference another article, give the asteroid name, give a list of expected metals to be found, and wrap it in a lovely Fox News bow of some pundit giving his idea of what that all means for the rest of us. As journalism goes, it's top tier for Fox.
Surprised fox didnt comment how this is against the natural order and bringing back gold from space will unleash a hoard of demons on the earth.
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Good source of iridium, which is rare on earth
Asteroid might remain too expensive if it's even possible, with rocket fuel, mining equipment in space,etc
Neat! Let it come down to it's real value.
Canโt wait for the day when we can have proper corrosion resistant materials. Just gold plate the hull of a ship, and salt water canโt do much.
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Would that really help though? Gold is super soft so I think it would need to get frequently coated/plated again --- and we already have pretty good and resistant marine paint.
Titanium is very corrosion resistant, not to mention plastics/fiberglass/carbon fiber, as I understand.
But yeah, cheap gold would be be great, just seems to me that the market would more be in e.g. electronics, where both corrosion resistance and electrical conductivity are required (something gold is fairly unique at).
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Yeah, well maybe ships weren't the best example.
Low wear resistance of gold is a significant issue, which definitely limits the number of potential applications, but I guess gold alloys could still be useful. For example, titanium has a bunch of alloys for different purposes, some more corrosion resistant than others, while others were optimized more towards wear resistance.
Titanium can also catch fire, which makes it a very tricky metal to use. Putting out a fire like that is pretty much impossible, so if your titanium cladded reactor catches fire, all you can realistically do is try to prevent the rest of the building from burning down. The reactor itself is gone at that point, so all you can do is wish you had paid for the gold cladding instead.
Also, the electrical conductivity of gold is amazing. If gold was as cheap as iron, we would definitely use lots of it in various electrical appliances.
If you can mine gold from asteroids, you're probably also going to find silver and platinum. Those two have some amazing properties too, so I think asteroid mining has great potential to permanently revolutionize a bunch of industries.
Diamonds aren't expensive because they're rare; they're not. The monopoly is why they're expensive. That's not going to change with space mining.
The reason diamonds are becoming cheaper is because the barrier to entry is being lowered. Having a private space program more advanced than any nation state as a barrier of entry will not have the same effect.
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I find the idea so dumb that we have a high value for a metal that objectively has few worthwhile uses. And because our folklore made up a high value from this. Weโre gonna spend hella resources to extract it from fucking asteroids. Even tho it has no objective major value.
(Imagine how many people we could feed with those resources instead)
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Yeah, I just can't understand why people would pay more money for something that looks objectively nicer.
Fuck shiny polished gold, that is more easily made into jewelry, doesn't react with skin, compliments many gemstones, and doesn't significantly corrode, I want a pig iron wedding ring.
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Itโs abundant though. We have thousands more times gold in circulation than used as jewellery. So if it were just jewellery then itโs be dirt cheap.
The reason its so expensive is people use it as investment. Like they hold massive amounts of it. Itโs like a made up commodity.
I totally get where you're coming fromโon the surface, it does seem absurd that so much effort, money, and even space tech is being directed toward chasing a shiny yellow metal that, in practical terms, doesnโt do much for human survival. It canโt feed us, shelter us, or cure disease. And yet, weโve built entire economies and mythologies around it. But the strange part is, this isnโt unique to gold. Itโs part of a much deeper pattern in human economic systems, especially in capitalism, where markets need some way to store and measure valueโand that almost always leads societies to latch onto something rare, durable, and symbolic, whether itโs objectively useful or not.
In early societies, people used cowrie shells in the Pacific Islands, huge stone disks in Yap, salt in ancient Africa, and even tulip bulbs in the Dutch Republic. These werenโt chosen because they had immense utility, but because they were scarce, hard to replicate, and symbolically powerful. They allowed people to trade across time and space. Capitalism, being based on decentralized exchange, competition, and accumulation, basically demands a store of value that everyone can agree onโeven if the object itself is more symbolic than practical. Gold just happens to check all the boxes: itโs rare, doesnโt tarnish, can be melted and divided, and most importantly, it's extremely hard to counterfeit or mass-produce without massive energy investment.
If gold didnโt exist, weโd be doing the same thing with something else. In fact, thatโs basically what happened with Bitcoin. People wanted a store of value outside the control of central banks, and they turned to something even more intangibleโjust math and energy. Itโs the same pattern: we create artificial scarcity and give it value, because we need a common reference point to coordinate vast, impersonal economies.
Now, the asteroid mining thing? Yeah, it sounds wild. But from a capitalist perspective, it actually makes sense. If gold remains valuable, then any untapped supplyโeven in spaceโis a business opportunity. The fact that this seems grotesque when we think about all the hunger and suffering here on Earth is a painful contradiction, but itโs also part of the logic of capitalism. Capital doesn't naturally flow toward moral priorities like feeding people; it flows toward returns. And unless there are incentives or systemic shifts to redirect that flow, people will keep pursuing things like asteroid gold, because thatโs where the value signal points.
So yeah, itโs kind of maddening. But it's not really about gold being usefulโit's about human systems needing anchors of value. And gold, for all its impracticality, happens to be an anchor that capitalism can rally around.
It's universally obtainable but not in ridiculous volumes and not without effort and once obtained it's incredibly durable. It's essentially perfect for the job.
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While I agree it is overvalued, what really put it into perspective for me is that all of the known gold in the world would fit into a cube with a side length of 20-25m.
So a fair price would be lower than what it is now, but it is scarce and its uses (corrosion resistance, conductivity, malleability, reflectivity, etc.) probably would still warrant a relatively high price.
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all of the known gold in the world would fit into a cube with a side length of 20-25m.
Same could probably be said about my lifetime toenail clippings, but Beyonce won't be dropping high stacks for those earrings.
That's just a marketing issue. If people can sell nft jpegs you can sell those nails. Stay on that grind ๐ช๐ค๐ฆถ
CLIP don't grind, you don't want all them profits going up in dust!
still one of humanity's less stupid ideas, even so.
Gold mining is fairly expensive. According to this website, gold mining currently has a operating profit margin of 30%, while the average public company has an operating margin of 27%.
This lines up relatively well with this other dataset of US companies reporting 32% gross profit margins (go to the bottom of the page).
So it seems to me that gold mining isn't really that "special" compared other commodities.
Gold has plenty of uses, besides being shiny and easy to work with. Imagine if all your electronics used gold traces because they were so cheap. Imagine if the windows of your car were coated in gold like on an airplane so you could easily defrost them in the winter rather than blowing air at it in the front and potentially distracting lines in the back. Imagine if gold was the filling of choice since it has a similar expansion rate to teeth. Gold has a number of applications in space. Ever wonder why the JWST is that color?
There are plenty of things gold would be excellent for if it wasn't so expensive.
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Only 7.16% of gold usage is for technology. The other 92.84% are just for purposes of being shiny. If we dropped gold from jewellery and as a proxy for money, there would be more than enough gold to go around and the price of gold would drop a lot.
Gold demand worldwide by industry share 2024| Statista
The jewelry industry accounted for a 44 percent share of global gold demand in 2024, which amounted to about 2,004 metric tons.Statista
Still not enough to use gold instead of copper for wiring
I don't think gold would make really good wiring.
Why are you surprised that the really expensive item isn't used for utility purposes? Why do you think its use wouldn't change if it was cheap?
Before aluminum was cheap to refine, it was used for cutlery and other displays of opulence. After it became cheaper, we used it everywhere.
If one day there are folks mining asteroids for gold they will not be humans as we will make ourselves extinct before that ever happens.
Why not lab grown gold?
*(it's not a serious question)
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Because of nuclear physics.
Diamonds are just carbon atoms arranged in a particular repeating structure (a lattice). So you can go from, say, graphite to diamond without touching the atoms themselves.
Gold, on the other hand is not about structure, but the atomic cores themselves, which contain exactly 79 protons. Going from one type of atom to another type requires some form of fission (breaking larger cores into smaller pieces) or fusion (smashing two smaller cores together). I don't think there are (viable) fission "recipes" that yield gold. And fusion requires insanely high temperatures or pressures even for smaller atoms (were talking center of the sun here).
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I fused with your mom last night.
Cut it out, dad.
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Sigh, I'll go get the chainsaw ...
Diamonds are just Carbon atoms in Chrystal form.
You can take carbon from say coal, turn it into a Chrystal and you've got a diamond.
Gold is just gold atoms, you can't make gold atoms
Well, you can make gold atoms (see here), but it takes many times more energy per atom because the energy contained in the bonds between neutrons and protons in the nucleous of atoms is many-fold the energy contained in the bonds between atoms (just see the difference in potency of conventional explosives - which release energy contained in the links between atoms - and fission and fusion bombs - which release the energy contained in the bonds within the atomic nucleous) hence it's not really an economic viable way of making gold.
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Alchemists have been trying for thousands of years, you're welcome to join them
Now we call them nuclear physicists
they actually made gold from lead, in the hadron collider. but it was a few particles, and very unstable, still gold!
The breaktrough for asteroid mining isn't propulsion but how to mine and process ore in a vacuum.
Actually it's surviving the radiation outside the Van Allen belts.
Has anyone hacked the mining robots already in use on earth? Has anyone hacked any of NASA's probes?
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How would you know if anyone did? If it happened on earth, the owner would say 'oh' and walk up to turn it off. You can't do that in deep space.
Hmm. What's hard about that?
Drill and blast seems like it should work as normal, or just a bucket if it's the rubble heap kind. Getting noble metals like gold out of a solution is pretty easy with electrowinning.
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Drill and blast seems like it should work as normal,
Zero G?
What about those things require any g?
Asteroid miners are going to have more in common with spiders than anything else; find a tasty roid, wrap it up in cling wrap and set off bombs inside of it until it's a bag of gravel, then get the whole mess spinning and just let go of the stuff you don't want to keep. Hell when you're done you can re-harvest the angular momentum to propel you over to the next roid and start the process over again.
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So easy, why hasn't anyone done it already????
I mean, most space travel ideas haven't been done, even ones that are many decades old. Shit's expensive and risky, both as an investment and an activity.
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For the same reason most other things involving space haven't been done yet. We as a species suck at prioritising stuff and allocating resources
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Easy? Who said easy? I didn't say easy, I just explained a way it could be accomplished while conserving as much energy as possible.
Why would that be a problem? The drilling platform would have to be tethered to the rock, but that's doable and I'm pretty sure they drill all the time on the ISS. Actually, didn't we drill into a comet or asteroid for samples sometime recently? The explosives would require no modification at all.
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The drilling platform would have to be tethered to the rock
That would be the start of a solution.
Barbed harpoons were the approach with the comet. Putting a band around the whole thing could also work for a small body. If you're going for gold, the asteroid is also going to be paramagnetic if I'm not mistaken, so you can just electromagnet on.
It's slightly more problematic than on Earth, but I'm basically going to need some citations if I'm ever going to believe it's sticking to the chosen landing site that's the hardest part. A lot of proposals sidestep on-site processing, even, and rely on delivering a whole small body to Earth.
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Maybe not to Earth (unless you wanna crash economies), but a LaGrange point would be suitable โ as well as a place for something spinning so the hairless monkeys could have a semblance of gravity.
If you have human miners, anyway.
Creating a debris field in orbit? You want this thing fully enclosed before you start messing with it in ways that cause it to break up.
I suppose in a very low orbit you could consider messy options if it will all burn up in a few months. But doesn't seem ideal.
Microwave it.
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Tapping into the million-year energy source below our feet
MIT spinout Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells made from the worldโs deepest holes in order to repurpose coal and gas plants.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Given how big asteroids can be, that must be a massive microwave! Though the spinning plate probably won't work due to gravity...
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Well, i didn't find it, but there was some news a few years ago, about progress to practical use of Maser as tunnel boring/melting device.
Excellent. One of Israels biggest exports is finished gemstones. I hope they are crushed.
they don't mine them. just process them. not sure it's lowering the cost of raw diamonds will change the processing cost.
its morning and haven't had my coffee, so I'm on instinct. I feel like it would lower the cost.
The processing cost is negligible compared the sales prices. Same as the cost of raw diamonds.
Diamonds are mostly a scam to part people from their money for literally a shiny rock.
it is, but if they maintain a monopoly, then cheaper raw diamonds will only increase profit.
although I'm assuming cheap synthetic diamonds are processed in other places.
Yeah, that's what I mean. People have been overpaying for diamonds for a very long time, mostly because they buy a diamond specifically because it's expensive.
A diamond isn't 1000x better at being a shiny piece of glass on top of an engagement ring than e.g. a cubic zirconia. But it's about 1000x better at showing that you paid 1000x the amount of money that you would have paid for a cubic zirconia.
And because of that, if the price of raw diamonds drops, the price of processed diamonds won't change significantly, because the production cost of e.g. a diamond ring doesn't matter for the asking price.
It's good to see diamond mining being replaced by artificial diamond manufacturing, which appears to be better envitonmentally and socially.
But I wouldn't compare diamonds to gold. Because gold is an element that can't be manufactured (without a particule accelerator and an insane amount of energy).
Asteroid mining is still science fiction.
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Right? Diamond is a crystal of Carbon. Its synthesis was a challenge, required high pressure, but sounde doable from the beggining.
Now, transmuting one element into other (gold)... That's atomic energy right there. A whole new level.
Asteroid mining would collapse the markets for most minerals, except perhaps the higher volume stuff like iron.
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Diamonds are rare on the surface of the earth, and their discovery therefore costs on the average much labour-time. Consequently, they represent much labour in a small volume of space. Jacob doubts that gold has ever paid its complete value. This holds true even more for diamonds. According to Eschwege, by 1823 the complete yield of the eight-year old Brazilian diamond-diggings had not yet amounted to the value of the 1ยฝ year average product of the Brazilian sugar or coffee plantations. Given more richly laden diggings the same quantum of labour would be represented by more diamonds and their value would sink. If one succeeds in converting coal into diamonds with little labour, then the value of diamonds would sink beneath that of paving stones.
-- Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1
I'm skeptical about the feasibility of transporting heavy metals through space. Also, diamond were never scarce, it was all literally market manipulation.
Eh they are already moving a good clip relative to the earth, nudging them in this direction would be the easier part of the equation. Stopping them when they get here is probably where you want to focus your energy... No pun intended
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
They are talking about not returning mined material from asteroids but about changing the trajectory of asteroids so that they collide with Earth. But if you do so, the asteroid would likely be destroyed, leaving little to mine, so it would have to be stopped (or slowed down) before reaching the ground.
Oh, right. I totally forgot about that part, I thought they were talking about diamonds.
Yes, if diamonds were rare I wouldn't have a diamond tipped drillbit set and several diamond saws. "Blah blah" quality ... sure ... but rare is rare.
Why wouldn't it be feasible to transport heavy metals through space? They would just float.
Shooting stuff into space is hard, bringing it back to Earth is harder.
If the price of gold plunges one day, it should already plunge today. In other words, the probability for success of those mining operations is low.
Why should it already plunge today? The demand/supply is still the same.
But it will not be the same when asteroid mining increases the supply tenfold.
True if used in production. But it's used to store value. If I know gold will be worth 50% next year, I am not willing to pay full price today if I want to resell it then.
Are they able to lab grow the same kind of gem quality diamonds that you usually think about when it comes to jewelry, or is it still mostly industrial applications (such as diamond tipped drill bits)?
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I've heard that lab grown are actually better across each measurement (clarity,shine, whatever), than natural diamonds, now.
Lab grown diamonds are much better quality than natural diamonds. So now natural diamond companies are moving to the "imperfections is what make a diamond perfect" strategy. But nothing's stopping labs from growing diamonds with imperfections if that's what the people are after.
All in all, diamonds have always been mostly a scam and it's showing more and more.
It is the blood and slavery that make natural diamonds so valuable /s
But the plummeting price of gold from the abundance would make the asteroid mining commercially nonviable. As an aside, only 7.16% of the gold demand in the world is actually for technology:
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Gold demand worldwide by industry share 2024| Statista
The jewelry industry accounted for a 44 percent share of global gold demand in 2024, which amounted to about 2,004 metric tons.Statista
There are many many more materials than just gold that could be extracted from asteroids.
But sure, establishing the infrastructure to make it commercially viable is a huge investment and won't be commercially viable for a while. (Think about missions like Hayabusa that cost hundreds of millions to bilLions, but retrieved "just" a couple of gram of material.)
I suspect asteroid mining won't be profitable unless we are able to use the materials to build stuff in space. It costs so much to launch stuff into space that a ton of say iron is going to be worth much more there than on earth. Whether we'll ever reach that stage is anyone's guess but I hope so.
Just need to make sure the mining machine is durable enough and can launch itself from asteroids, because launching from asteroids with their low gravity is a lot easier than from earth, so a single earth launch can mine from multiple asteroids and send stuffs back.
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Time to make Space Elevators real.
It's possible gold has twenty years or less of being high value left.
In 20 years florida and NYC may be underwater.
In 20 years Flordians won't have teeth.
They can replace them with gold teeth for rock bottom prices!
Ah, yes, the notoriously accessible and inexpensive field of launching rockets, landing said rocket on a giant sized bullet so a robot can go drill in it for weeks to dig up thousands of pounds of rock, lifting the robot that now weighs significantly more off of the giant bullet, and safely returning it to our larger, slightly slower bullet.
The rocket equation wants to have words with you.
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Correlation does not prove causation! One popular example: shark attacks are more likely when ice cream sales are higher.
This relationship does not suggest that ice cream sales somehow cause shark attacks, however. Rather, both are related to some third factorโin this case, the activation of mind-control satellites, which are used both to market ice cream and to control sharks.
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Has to be true!
pretty sure it's that sharks love to prepare for hunting people by enjoying a nice ice cream treat
Or maybe it's just that people taste better when they are full of ice cream?
It's one or the other.
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Another infamous example: All people who mistake correlation for causation will die.
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Have you considered that shark attacks *cause* people to nervously eat ice-cream?
This is the kind of clear, factual, exposition I go to Mastodon for.
Thank you, kind sir!
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Nothing to do with warm weather or sweaty human bodies looking for relief?
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The New, Farthest Galaxy has Been Found by Webb. Only 280 Million Years After the Big Bang
The New, Farthest Galaxy has Been Found by Webb. Only 280 Million Years After the Big Bang
The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang.Universe Today
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The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a galaxy only 280 million years after the Big Bang, the most distant galaxy ever detected.Prior to the JWST, we had no infrared telescopes with large enough mirrors to detect light from the early galaxies. The Hubble can see near-infrared light, but only has a 2.4-meter mirror. It found only one galaxy from the Universe's 500 million years. The Spitzer Space Telescope was a dedicated infrared telescope, but it only had an 85 cm mirror. Not only does the JWST have a much larger mirror, but detector technology has advanced so much that the veil obscuring the early Universe is being lifted one ancient galaxy at a time.
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Jupiter Was Formerly Twice Its Current Size and Had a Much Stronger Magnetic Field
New research pins down Jupiter's size, spin, and magnetic state during the solar system's formative years, providing vital clues to planetary formation.California Institute of Technology
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Will the Catholic Church soon support UBI? In his first meeting with the cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said the impact of AI and robotics on work will be a central focus of his papacy.
The new pope's choice of name was deliberate; he chose it to honor Pope Leo XIII who was Pope from 1878 - 1903. Leo XIII is famous for taking a left-wing stance on workers' rights in response to the Industrial Revolution, and calling for state pensions, social security, and other reforms rooted in social democracy.
It will be interesting to see what Pope Leo XIV calls for. Universal Basic Income? It wouldn't surprise me. The day is soon coming that humans won't be able to economically compete with ultra-cheap AI/robot-employee staffed businesses.
Some people scoff at the notion of the Catholic Church concerning itself with such things. If they do, they're underestimating the Church's vast soft power. Vatican City might be the world's smallest state, but the Catholic Church is arguably the preeminent global superpower when it comes to soft power.
There are 1.4 billion Catholics, and if the church decides to support UBI, it will have a vast reach to sway politicians in 100+ countries on almost every continent.
Pope Leo identifies AI as main challenge in first meeting with cardinals
New pontiff sets out vision, pledging to continue โprecious legacyโ of predecessor Pope Francis.Al Jazeera
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That's nice. Now, about those pedophiles shuffling through dioceses like plauge rats.
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Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the information in the report was โvery worrying", adding that "friends" shouldn't spy on each other.
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Dominican Republic reports sharp rise in Haitian migrant deportations
Santo Domingo (AFP) โ The Dominican Republic has deported more than 119,000 Haitians so far in 2025, an increase of 71 percent over the same period last year, immigration authorities said Monday.Boosting deportations to Haiti -- the region's poorest nation which is ravaged by gang violence -- was a campaign promise of Dominican President Luis Abinader, reelected in May 2024 for a second term.
"The General Directorate of Migration (DGM) repatriated 32,540 Haitian citizens in irregular migratory status in the country in April, to complete the figure of 119,003 in the four-month period January-April 2025," the agency said in a statement.
This figure "represents an increase of 71% compared to the same period of the previous year," it added. In 2024, there were a total of 276,215 deportations.
The Dominican Republic in late April began raids on public hospitals to arrest undocumented pregnant women and mothers with newborns in a crackdown on arrivals from neighboring Haiti.
Rights groups have criticized the measure as "cruel."
President Abinader has also announced plans to extend a 54-kilometer (33-mile) wall between the Caribbean nations, which share the island of Hispaniola, and recently deployed more troops to the border.
About 500,000 Haitians live in the Dominican Republic, a country of 11.3 million people, according to official data.
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Sydney (AFP) โ New Zealand's prime minister on Tuesday proposed banning children under 16 from social media, stressing the need to protect them from the perils of big tech platforms.Regulators the world over are wrestling with how to keep children safe online, as social media is increasingly flooded with violent and disturbing content.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon unveiled draft laws that would force social media companies to verify users were at least 16 years old, or face fines of up to NZ$2 million (US$1.2 million).
The proposed ban was modelled on that of Australia, which sits at the forefront of global efforts to regulate social media.
"This is about protecting our children. It's about making sure social media companies are playing their role in keeping our kids safe," Luxon said.
It was not clear when the legislation would be introduced to parliament, but Luxon said he was hopeful of garnering support across the chamber.
The laws were drafted by Luxon's centre-right National Party, the biggest member in New Zealand's three-way governing coalition.
To be passed they would need the support of Luxon's two other coalition partners.
"Parents are constantly telling us that they are really worried about the impact that social media is having on their children," Luxon said.
"And they say they are really struggling to manage access to social media."
Australia passed landmark laws in November banning under-16s from social media -- one of the world's toughest crackdowns on popular sites such as Facebook, Instagram and X.
The move sparked a fierce backlash from big tech companies who variously described the laws as "rushed", "vague", and "problematic".
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Imagine how many teen suicides this would prevent.
How do you enforce that? Credit card requirements? That would create a pay to have a voice system that would silence the poorest.
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Pakistan conducts second missile test since renewed India standoff
Islamabad (AFP) โ The Pakistan military said on Monday it had conducted a missile test with a range of 120 kilometres (75 miles), the second launch in two days as tensions with India have soared over disputed Kashmir.New Delhi has blamed Islamabad for backing a deadly attack on tourists on the Indian side of Kashmir last month, sparking a fresh stand-off between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
"The launch was aimed at ensuring the operational readiness of troops and validating key technical parameters, including the missile's advanced navigation system and enhanced accuracy," the military said in a statement.
On Saturday, the military said it had tested a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 450 kilometres (280 miles).
It did not say where either of the tests took place.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he was satisfied with the military's "full preparedness for national defence".
"The successful training launch clearly shows that Pakistan's defence is in strong hands," he said in a statement.
The missile training launch comes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he has given his military "full operational freedom" to respond to the April 22 attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.
Pakistan has denied any involvement and called for an independent probe.
Islamabad warned last week of an imminent air strike from its neighbour and has repeatedly made clear it will respond with force to any aggression by India.
International pressure has been piled on both New Delhi and Islamabad -- who have fought several wars over the disputed Kashmir region -- to de-escalate.
The two sides have exchanged nightly gunfire for more than a week nine along the militarised Line of Control, the de facto border, according to Indian defence sources.
Muslim-majority Kashmir, a region of around 15 million people, is divided between Pakistan and India but claimed in full by both.
On the Pakistani side, emergency drills have been carried out on playing fields, residents have been told to stock up on food and medicine, and religious schools have been closed.
In Indian-run Kashmir, a vast manhunt seeking the gunmen continues across the territory, while those living along the frontier are moving further away -- or cleaning out bunkers fearing conflict.
Sharif has postponed an official visit to Malaysia scheduled for Friday as tensions mounted, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday.
His office said the two sides spoke on Sunday night and that he "conveyed that he looked forward to paying an official visit to Malaysia later this year".
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in Islamabad on Monday for an official visit.
"Pakistan is presenting its case to friendly countries," Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told reporters on a visit to Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday.
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Huthis say US bombed Yemen after strike on Israel's main airport
Sanaa (AFP) โ Yemen's Huthis on Monday accused the United States of carrying out strikes in and around Sanaa, after the Iran-backed rebels claimed a missile strike on Israel's main airport.The Huthi-run Saba news agency said the strikes included two on Arbaeen Street in the capital and the airport road, blaming them on "American aggression".
Sixteen people were wounded, Saba cited the Iran-backed rebels' health ministry as saying.
The accusation came after Israel said a missile fired from Yemen struck inside the perimeter of Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Sunday.
The Huthis claimed responsibility, saying they fired a "hypersonic ballistic missile" at Ben Gurion, Israel's main international gateway.
The missile gouged a wide crater in the ground near an airport parking lot, wounding six people and forcing airlines to suspend flights.
The Huthis, who control swathes of Yemen including the capital, have launched missiles and drones targeting Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Gaza war, saying they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a tough response against the Huthis, as well as its main backer Iran, over the attack.
In a video published on Telegram, Netanyahu said Israel had "acted against" the Huthis in the past and "will act in the future".
"It will not happen in one bang, but there will be many bangs," he added, without elaborating.
On social media platform X, Netanyahu said Israel would also respond to Iran at "a time and place of our choosing".
Hours later, the Huthis threatened to launch more such strikes and warned airlines to cancel their flights to Israeli airports.
Iran on Monday denied supporting the attack, calling it an "independent decision" by the Yemeni rebels taken in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Reacting to Netanyahu's threats, the Islamic republic warned it would retaliate to any attack against its territory.
"Iran underlines (its) firm determination... to defend itself," the Iranian foreign ministry said, warning Israel and the United States of "consequences".
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I snagged Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way in a Humble Bundle recently and was happy to see that all the "turn to page N" prompts were links to the appropriate page. @AtlasObscura @bookstodon
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