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As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively “calming” it?...
This is going to depend on the specifics of your story, but a supernova happens when a star runs out of easily fused fuel (hydrogen, helium).
If you want to prevent the supernova entirely and return the star to “normal,” that means removing all the heavy elements from a stellar core and adding lighter elements. I’m no scientist (or author), but turning back the clock like that is beyond my imagination.
Absorbing the energy for use in other applications? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so…maybe? You can probably hand wave that way. It won’t be 100% efficient, and whatever tech that’s absorbing that energy has to be able to contain a star. This one has at least some hypothetical support: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
A Type III civilization is able to capture all the energy emitted by its galaxy, and every object within it, such as every star, black hole, etc.
It reminds me of the Ringworld novels. I won’t rehash the entire plot, but basically an artificial structure is built that requires a material the author calls “scrith” that is essentially impossible with known physics, but a clever author can write around it well enough that it doesn’t get too much attention for its “magic” properties.
There must be some caloric input required to produce mucus, however my question is what happens when you swallow your own mucus vs spitting. Do you retain calories by swallowing mucus?
Sure. It contains proteins in the mucin family, which will have some, eh, “nutritional” value. Plus whatever is caught up in it. It’s mostly water, though, so not much.
No price up on Steam. If OP has some insider info on that, it’s hidden somewhere in their 20 minute video just for the views. Really pushing rules 2, 7, and 9, IMHO.
My city’s limits covers one county and half of the county north of it. Why don’t they just follow the same lines on the map, with either the county following the city, or the city following the county line?
The county lines were likely drawn 100-200 years ago. The method will vary by state, but is usually either in a grid or following some geographical features. Where people live probably wasn’t directly taken into account.
Cities lines are drawn as needed, and as cities expand, it just depends on where the population growth is. For mature towns/cities, they may be butted up against adjacent towns, so expansion is driven by whichever people are otherwise “unclaimed.”
But why do cities expand in the first place? Money, prestige (which brings more money), adding services to under-served residents, etc. The question they’re asking when it comes time to grow the borders is, ‘will this bring in more money than it costs in a reasonable amount of time?’ It can be expensive to add services in some areas if they’re expanding water/sewer/police/fire/electric/etc, but the additional tax revenues may be worth it.
The House on Wednesday passed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to either sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in the United States....
It would arguably take less effort to write a more general ban on apps and companies sharing, selling, and aggregating data on users than one specifically carving out foreign-owned companies.
Not doing that makes it clear this isn’t a “first step.” This is a blanket approval of the practice, but with “election year, China bad” thrown in.
Yes, any government access to user data can, and will, be mis-used, including Tik Tok. Opposing this bill isn’t an approval of Bytedance, it’s an opposition to the process.
The closest analog recently is probably Facebook’s IPO in 2012. They were profitable that year, and the stock price still dropped by up to 50% in the first few months. The business is healthy, and the stock is fine now, but don’t count on a quick buck in the first few weeks/months.
Not exactly social media as one would typically define it, but I like Techdirt’s system. Insightful, Funny, or Report (for Troll/Spam), at least as a framework.
More sites should use more granular voting systems so that people can indicate why they like/dislike content. A downvote for “I disagree with this person’s opinion” shouldn’t count the same as “This is a spam account.” And “This content is factually correct information provided by an expert in the field” shouldn’t count the same as “hur hur, he said ‘boobies’.”
Any given star is constantly emitting an unimaginably large, but finite, number of photons. A tiny few of them travel tens to hundreds of (Earth) years, only to end their journey in your eyeballs.
Yes, in case it wasn’t clear, that’s what I was trying to say. The “beer and world record publisher” are related. The “tire and restaurant rating” are related. Both unlike the Stanleys which are not.
I still have a couple drives and a bunch of disks. I keep telling myself I’ll resurrect my college homework for a laugh one day. Unfortunately it’s hard to find a reasonably modern motherboard to hook them up (let alone finding drivers), so in the closet they sit.
The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.
The future of painting [skeleton claw] (lemmy.world)
www.skeletonclaw.com
Final Fantasy VII (PS1) - Aerith's funeral (m.youtube.com)
Does this make anybody…cry?
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Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/9649718...
Supernova Absorption for Nulification
As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively “calming” it?...
"This generation is finished" --previous generation
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)
Does mucus have calories?
There must be some caloric input required to produce mucus, however my question is what happens when you swallow your own mucus vs spitting. Do you retain calories by swallowing mucus?
Planet Sim Game (lemmy.world)
I enjoyed this retro planet/colony sim. Nice price on Steam as well. youtu.be/oQspTTPmzm8?si=yGKxfM9T6TceeouO
Lawn mower racing (en.m.wikipedia.org)
[US] Why don't city limits just follow county lines or vice versa?
My city’s limits covers one county and half of the county north of it. Why don’t they just follow the same lines on the map, with either the county following the city, or the city following the county line?
House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App (www.nytimes.com)
The House on Wednesday passed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to either sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in the United States....
To those who got the Reddit/MorganStanley email... Are you gonna do it?
Asking because I got it and I’m not really sure what to do. So, I wanted to see what strangers on the internet are going to do....
it's Monday again (media.tenor.com)
yay...
Kelly Rowland cannot escape questions about texting Nelly via Excel (www.avclub.com)
What other voting systems that exist in other social media sites that does not use upvote and downvote?
Up to 60 days for US to establish Gaza port, Pentagon says (www.al-monitor.com)
Every star in the sky is interacting with you through gravity 🌌 We are all connected to the universe around us.
Gravitational force is never truly zero. If it has mass, it is pulling at you, though it may be so close to zero that you don’t realize it.
TIL Stanley the tool company is different from Stanley the cup company
Hail corporate and all that....
How to answer "Tell me about yourself" in a job interview?
I’ve got a job interview on Tuesday and I haven’t had one for a while due to a period of unemployment because of family health issues....
Did anyone have Iomega Zip drives where they studied/worked/lived?
Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)...