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benroyce, 15 hours ago to ai

this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

johncarlosbaez, 8 hours ago to random

I want to read this book: A Darwinian Survival Guide. Sounds like a realistic view of what we need to do now. You can read an interview with one author, the biologist Daniel Brooks. A quote:

...

Daniel Brooks: What can we begin doing now that will increase the chances that those elements of technologically-dependent humanity will survive a general collapse, if that happens as a result of our unwillingness to begin to do anything effective with respect to climate change and human existence?

Peter Watts: So to be clear, you’re not talking about forestalling the collapse —

Daniel Brooks: No.

Peter Watts: — you’re talking about passing through that bottleneck and coming out the other side with some semblance of what we value intact.

Daniel Brooks: Yeah, that’s right. It is conceivable that if all of humanity suddenly decided to change its behavior, right now, we would emerge after 2050 with most everything intact, and we would be “OK.” We don’t think that’s realistic. It is a possibility, but we don’t think that’s a realistic possibility. We think that, in fact, most of humanity is committed to business as usual, and that’s what we’re really talking about: What can we begin doing now to try to shorten the period of time after the collapse, before we “recover”? In other words — and this is in analogy with Asimov’s Foundation trilogy — if we do nothing, there’s going to be a collapse and it’ll take 30,000 years for the galaxy to recover. But if we start doing things now, then it maybe only takes 1,000 years to recover. So using that analogy, what can some human beings start to do now that would shorten the period of time necessary to recover?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/

foone, 15 hours ago to random

FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

thisnorthernboy, 39 minutes ago to random

Might be making a rod for my own back here, but I think the next thing I try to build in Blender, might be a Star Wars spaceship dock - like Docking Bay 94 from ANH. Or Peli Motto's Hangar 3-5 from The Mandalorian.

I will, of course, have to design a SW ship to go in it.

foone, 21 hours ago to random

So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

jeffowski, 22 hours ago to random

The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing their sacks (containing flour and grain) to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.

TMEubanks, 4 hours ago to random

On the mass and size of the Spanish fireball

CNEOS says

Velocity (km/s) 40.4
Total Radiated Energy (J) 3.7e10
Calculated Total Impact Energy (kt) 0.13

0.13 kt is 5.4 x 10^11 J

1 kg at 40.4 km/s has 8.16 x 10^8 J

So, that CNEOS impact energy corresponds to a mass of 666 kg.

At 2300 kg/m^3 that's 0.4 m radius or 0.8 m diameter.

So, a beachball.

jdnicoll, 4 hours ago to random

You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera, volume 1) by Cat Rambo

A start-up restaurant's staff unexpectedly finds themselves eyeball deep in space pirates and not the bodacious variety.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/a-nourishing-thing
#booktodon

nickpascoal, 4 hours ago to blender

Calling on Comms
#cinema4d #c4d #3d #digitalart #art #scifi #scifiart #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #photoshop #adobe #aftereffects #3dart

RJB_Mallacore, 5 hours ago to 3dmodeling

Some Star Trek art for your morning.

Enjoy.

#3dmodeling #3dart #lightwave #scifiart #Starships #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #startrekfanart #fanart

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JVWest, 9 hours ago to random

I think one of the creative blocks that I face daily (my entire life) is that I THINK TO MUCH.

Not "I think well" too much. I just think too much. I imagine the thing I want to create, and that imagining leads me down multiple potential paths, which gets me into analysis paralysis and I can't decide which way to go. So that leads me into a spiral of self-doubt, which leads me to self-loathing, which leads me to "eh, what's the point?" and I don't do anything.

Good morning!
#randomthoughts

maxthefox, 6 hours ago to writing

The fifth chapter of Stardust: Labyrinth is out! Horrifying event after horrifying event happens as the five tries to find their way back after the fourth chapter's incident, threatening to derail the expedition completely. Will they manage to regain their bearings?

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85822/stardust-labyrinth

#Writing #amwriting #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #books #sff #WritersOfMastodon #scifi #sciencefiction

kims, 17 hours ago to random

This bumper sticker is enough to make me wish for a minivan again

Ken_McConnell, 13 hours ago to random

Me: I need a quick crew for my space tug. Just some names.

Also Me: Finds images of the crew, and creates interesting back story for them. Falls in love with the crew and now wants to do a whole book on just the tug crew's adventures.🤦‍♂️

SlaunchaMan, 23 hours ago to random

I went to CVS yesterday to pick up a prescription. For years when I’ve done so, there’s a step where you need to sign on the terminal and agree that you’re receiving the listed medications. This time, I noticed a super dark pattern.

In the place where historically they’ve collected this signature, they still ask for your signature—but to agree that CVS can use your medical data for marketing.

There’s no way this is informed consent. One of the darkest patterns I’ve seen.

infobeautiful, 21 hours ago to DataViz

If the whole history of the Earth was squeezed into one day... #dataviz

via: https://flowingdata.com/.../history-of-earth-in-24-hour.../

Adam_Cadmon1, 19 hours ago to random

It's not just one sci-fi writer's worst nightmare; the worst parts of EVERY sci-fi property are converging to make this the most annoyingly stupid dystopia imaginable.

jenn, 1 day ago to random

companies don’t build for users, they build for the shareholders. and the shareholders don’t use what companies build, nor do they talk to users.

i don’t know how to fix this, but framing the challenge this way has given me ideas and decisions to consider vs fully losing hope which many of us have exhaustively been fighting.

cerebrate, 1 day ago to Futurology

Backwashing the pool filter this morning, and having recently watched Dune, can't help but wonder what the first Fremen off-world must have thought when they encountered people throwing away gallons of water just to clean some crud off their sand...

(Other than, y'know, crysknife to the face.)

#dune #water

Princejvstin, 20 hours ago to random

The answer to ninety nine out of a hundred questions is money. The answer to nine out of ten of those remaining questions is politics.

panther_modern, 1 day ago to random