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  • The beehives have a huge prerequisite of making sure there’s enough flowers throughout the year to feed them. So if they come with installing a full rooftop garden, that’s great, otherwise you’d be better off sticking to the panels.

    But putting up panels wouldn’t prevent you from also starting container gardening. Pollinating insects are pretty good at making their own homes. What matters more is growing food for them and their larval stages to eat. So if you’re up for it, install the panels, and start filling the gaps with container plants. Just don’t go overboard because soil is too heavy for roofs that aren’t designed for the extra load.






  • I’m not a meteorologist, but I do know a thing or two about plasma.

    Plasma is very short lived. Think on the order of microseconds at atmospheric pressures. So unless there was a massive linear source of power along the whole length, this isn’t plasma.

    The visual effects probably have to do with the fact that the sun was very low. I’m guessing the particle size distribution in that line is notably different from the size of particles in the clouds surrounding it, leading to much stronger reflection of evening light.

    I am curious as to the meteoroligical explanation for the line though.



  • Fermion@feddit.nltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAm I insane?
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    6 months ago

    Do you want some discouragement?

    Stainless steel is stains less not rusts never. You would need additional measures to keep the stand from degrading over thousands of years. Your local archeology department could give you some pointers on how to accomplish that.

    Or maybe you design the stand in such a way that the tungsten object is held firmly, but still easily visible in rusty stainless jaws.



  • From a product development viewpoint, the gun is an uninteresting part. It’s better to use something that already has a mature production line and has been thoroughly field tested. It’s the vision and control systems they are interested in developing, the gun is just the chosen end effector for this application.

    Even when they’re ready to start deploying systems like this, there’s a lot of value in using compenents that the military already has a lot of spare parts for and that personnel know how to maintain. I wouldn’t expect a custom gun until units like this are commonplace.


  • Fermion@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyzDreams come true
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    7 months ago

    The trouble is that a fad doesn’t have to be functional to be used by short-sighted trend chasers as a justification to make cuts. How many jobs did we see outsourced to India in a way that didn’t even come close to matching the quality of the people laid off? The people who make the decision to replace jobs with ai systems will loudly declare success and move on to their next role before the long-term consequences are fully realized.


  • Fermion@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyzOl switcharoo
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    7 months ago

    As long as the earth-sun orbit stays close to 1 au, then ejecting the moon into it’s own solar orbit wouldn’t necessarily be world ending. There would probably be some aquatic life extinctions from the loss of tides, and some nocturnal species might be affected by the change in light levels.

    The sun diameter is 1.4 million kilometers, and the earth-moon orbital radius is 0.38 million kilometers. So trying stick the sun between the earth and moon at the current orbital radius just makes the sun 1/333000th more massive.



  • Fermion@feddit.nltoScience Memes@mander.xyz😳😳😳
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    8 months ago

    There’s no danger for an mri unless you’ve had major surgery involving metal inplants. There’s no ionizing radiation so there should be no risks for the fetus.

    Cost and scarcity are big limiting factors for mri though. Mri machines are massive permanent installations that cost in the millions. They are already busy with people who need diagnostics of specific conditions. Putting every expectant mother in one would lead to absurd wait times. Whereas doctors offices can have multiple little ultrasound machines on carts that are easy to quickly acquire imagining as part of routine visits.