alright, I think it's time to translate the #NWB spec language to RDF and start on the first leg of getting this p2p thing off the ground and mirror all the neurophysiology archives. got a big stack of hard drives and bandwidth going to waste
The year is 2534, and the ultra-rich escape the oppressive heat of Alaska by Summering in Antarctica, what with its impressive array of golf courses and lack of post apocalyptic desert hellscapes.
Past #eclipse s also helped early scientists figure out the element #helium.
“Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar chromosphere, and with some justification the element helium.”
STOP ! ARRETEZ TOUT ! J'écoute religieusement Things Left On The Pavement de Pram ! Je ne réponds plus de rien, je suis aux abonnés absent, laissez-moi dans ma bulle !
Le genre de morceau, dès la première écoute, tu es amoureux. Quelques notes de basses, puis l'arrivée de la batterie, et mon cerveau se déconnecte, je flotte. 6 minutes 49 de pur trip sans aucun additif de synthèse. Non, vraiment, je vous jure, c'est l'effet que me fait ce morceau de cet album de mon "top 3 de tous les temps". Voilà. Bref. Oui, je kiffe Pram, à la vie à la mort.
People might wonder why I am a little hesitant about buying #Apple products now…
Back in 2011 I bought a used 2008-model #Apple#MacBook (MacBook 5.1), sporting a Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM and a 160GB HDD.
It was in good condition. I updated the OS on there to MacOS X 10.6, dual-booted with Gentoo Linux. I later upped the disk to a 750GB HDD (SSDs were puny and a bit dicey back then) and upgraded the RAM to 8GB.
It was a good workhorse for a couple of years, except its lack of ports.
2 USB 2.0 ports is a pain to work with, netbooks have more. Plus the lack of RS-232 was a pain at work. I bought a Panasonic ToughBook CF-53mkII (pictured) to replace the MacBook at work, and used it as a work-from-home machine.
After a while, it managed to cook its original batteries, so I took the machine into one of Apple's vendors in Brisbane, and picked up a replacement battery. Installation on this model is a tool-free process.
A few years later, the machine managed to cook that battery too! So the MacBook today is battery-less. This means when disconnected from power, it forgets the current date/time, and if that magsafe power connector moves just slightly, the machine may shut down as there's no back-up power supply.
I've had several laptops over the years, but only one Apple, and this is the only machine I've used or owned that has cooked its own battery in such spectacular fashion.
I'm thankful its removal is a tool-free process. Modern MacBooks have their batteries glued in. Sorry, hard-pass!
Especially as the ToughBook here is still being used today, its original battery is still good for 2-3 hours (and I have a new replacement which is good for ~6).
@stuartl@Fairphone
After all, #LithiumIon and #LithiumPolymer if not all #batteries will INEVITABLY die due to use and/or age.
Same with #Flash dying after exceeding it's life cycles or #HDD's dying due to motor failures and gunked-up greases or since recently loss of #Helium...
Je rentre à la maison. Je passe en mode #devoirs et là je tombe sur une consigne qui m'interpelle. Revoir la pièce de théâtre. La consigne est d'autant plus étonnante qu'elle vient du professeur de #physique#chimie . Forcément ça interpelle. Je regarde la leçon associée qui porte bien sûr le. Système solaire...
J'interroge donc ma collégienne pour en savoir plus sur cette consigne surprenante. #teasing
@Snoweider not to mention: there is a worldwide shortage of #helium, which is a critical element in all sorts of important uses including healthcare. We shouldn’t be squandering it in this way.
This company intends to be the first to mine the moon
Nearly a decade ago, Congress passed a law that allows private American space companies the rights to resources they mine on celestial bodies, including the moon.
Now, there’s a private venture that says it intends to do just that.
Founded by a pair of former executives from Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos, and an Apollo astronaut, the company, Interlune, announced itself publicly Wednesday by saying it has raised $18 million and is developing the technology to harvest and bring materials back from the moon. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Specifically, #Interlune is focused on #Helium-3, a stable isotope that is scarce on Earth but plentiful on the moon and could be used as fuel in nuclear fusion reactors as well as helping power the quantum computing industry.
The company, based in Seattle, has been working for about four years on the technology, which comes as the commercial sector is working with NASA on its goal of building an enduring presence on and around the moon.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has delayed its launch a second time, this time due to a helium leak. This is extra hard for Boeing because having that silly-high-helium-voice makes it difficult to be taken seriously when you’re trying to hire whistleblower assassins.
The funding was announced at the company's Squamish warehouse on Friday, Feb. 23, by the Minister of Emergency Preparedness and the Minister responsible for #PacifiCan, Harjit Sajjan.
Quantum Technology specializes in #hydrogen & #helium applications.
Gold Hydrogen finds hydrogen and helium in its drill for #whitehydrogen
Drilling at South Australia's Ramsay 1 well found 73.3% #hydrogen at 240m. Also, found #Helium at 3.6% at 892 m, a concentration that makes commercial exploration feasible
Two-faced star with helium and hydrogen sides baffles astronomers
Astronomers have discovered a two-faced star and are baffled by its bizarre appearance.
The #white#dwarf appears to have one side composed almost entirely of #hydrogen and the other side made up of #helium. It is the first time that astronomers have discovered a lone star that appears to have spontaneously developed two contrasting faces.
“The surface of the white dwarf completely changes from one side to the other,” said Dr Ilaria Caiazzo, an astrophysicist at Caltech who led the work. “When I show the observations to people, they are blown away.”
Scientists have detected a surprising amount of helium-3 in volcanic rocks on Canada’s Baffin Island, supporting to the theory that the noble gas is leaking from Earth’s core — and has been for a very long time. CNN reports: https://flip.it/OVUnYL #Science#Earth#Helium#BaffinIsland