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urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus

There is a lot of actual conspiracies. Much more than conspiracy theories. The only known working process to uncover a conspiracy is to conduct an investigation and then prove the findings in a court.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus

What wrong with that? We have moral compasses built-in. When someone says that murdering of people is OK, because Russia will be great again, should we throw out our moral beliefs and carefully listen to both sides?

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: What is wrong with TOML? (2019)

AKA "config directory".

See https://jmmv.dev/2020/08/config-files-vs-directories.html

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy

But Low Energy FTL travel is far greener for our Galaxy than HE FTL. With HE FTL, just one mistake can born new supernova. Moreover, it requires year of whole star energy for singe travel. 90% of stars turned dark just because of that. I will call you "Dark Lord" from now.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy

> Ships going FTL could be collided into a planet.

Or it will pass through a planet like neutrino. How you know which FTL method will actually work?

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

> More recent measurements seem to point to more encouraging values for the α-sticking probability, finding the α-sticking probability to be about 0.5% (or perhaps even about 0.4% or 0.3%), which could mean as many as about 200 (or perhaps even about 250 or about 333) muon-catalyzed d-t fusions per muon.[29][30] Indeed, the team led by Steven E. Jones achieved 150 d-t fusions per muon (average) at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.[31] Unfortunately, 200 (or 250 or even 333) muon-catalyzed d-t fusions per muon are still not quite enough even to reach "break-even," where as much thermal energy is generated (or output) as the electrical energy that was used up (or input) to make the muon in the first place. This means, of course, that not nearly enough thermal energy is generated thereby to be able to convert the thermal energy released into more useful electrical energy, and to have any electrical energy left over to sell to the commercial electrical power "grid." The conversion efficiency from thermal energy to electrical energy is only about 40% or so. Also, some not inconsiderable fraction of that electrical energy (hopefully not all of it) would have to be "recycled" (used up in deuteron particle accelerators, for example) to make more muons to keep the muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusion fires burning night and day.[32] The best recent estimated guess of the electrical "energy cost" per muon is about 6 GeV (billion electron Volts), using deuterons that are accelerated to have kinetic energies of about 800 MeV per nucleon, with accelerators that are (coincidentally) about 40% efficient at taking electrical energy from the Alternating Current (AC) mains (the plugs in the wall) and accelerating the deuterons using this electrical energy.

Yep, it's challenging. Maybe this rate can be improved by applying alternating voltage to reactor. Muons are charged particles, so they can be accelerated further. (Just idea)

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

Gravitational wells are spherical, so this unevenness can be utilized to lift up by pumping energy into higher energy state, at higher orbit.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

Full scale war between Russia and Ukraine (with help of NATO) progressing right now with constant threats to use nuclear weapons or blow up a nuclear power station.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

Commercially viable fusion can be achieved with commercially viable source of muons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-009-0006-9

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ns.39....

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/yoon1/

https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Muon-catalyzed_fu...

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: “1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”

It was at the start of the IPv6, but then disabled because companies were afraid of IPv6 compatibility with IPv4, which may be used to penetrate firewalls.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)

Yes, wars are not simple. Fog of war may make it blurry, or enemy may fool each other. For example, soviets shelled their own territory in Finnish war, to pretend that they were attacked first, so they are defending. Russians are using same thing too: they blown up their own buildings to blame Chechen and then started second Chechen war, or, in case of Russo-Ukrainian war, they pretend that Ukraine will be swallowed by NATO and then European and American homosexuals will freely fuck Russian-speaking Ukrainian children, so Russians are invaded to protect Ukrainians!

However, this should not alter your moral compass. Those, who defend themselves, have moral rights to wipe the attackers or invaders.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)

It is also certain that many branches of many families do not exist because of the war.

Blame those, who started the war, instead of those, who ended it.

Defenders can use anything, including weapons of mass destruction, to defend themselves. Attacking to with intent to kill even one person is crime.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flight in sight

Ukrainian missile "Neptune" hit Russian "Moscow" flagship, so they are capable, but drones are much much cheaper.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)

Evaporation cannot create pressure needed to run turbine, while boiling will, but boiling will create highly corrosive steam with salt.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: The Standard Model

Skyrmion[0] is 2D structure. Hopfion[1][2] is 3D.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_skyrmion

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfion

[2]: http://hopfion.com/

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: The Standard Model

All that is because of lack of understanding of underlying physics. Standard model is used as substitute to physics, which results in explanations like that: "there is no Everest (physics), it's just excitement in the height field (model). Gravitation (physics) bends space-time (model), so students just follow the shortest path.", and so on.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists

Declassified report[0] shows that CIA is still 50/50 on lab vs natural origin.

[0]: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-...

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists

> First of all, there were many jumps of SARS from animals into humans, over a period of months in which the markets containing infected animals were open.

Can you point me to one or two cases you are talking about, please?

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage

Unlike regular waves, photons are topologically stable, like smoke-ring kind of wave. Google hopfions for example.

If you like hydrodynamic quantum analogs (walking droplets), then you may see that droplet may escape it pilot wave sometimes. In such cases, pilot wave continue to travel in same direction for some time. IMHO, it's similar to how photons are formed: electron creates pilot wave, then escapes it, similar to Cherenkov radiation.

Anyway, photons have special configuration, so they behaves differently than regular waves.

Gravitational waves, AFAIK, are not topologically stable at all.

urinotherapist | 2 years ago | on: Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage

I saw water-like behavior of a wave! I have no idea, how much molecules it contains, large waves have many cubic meters of water, but I'm pretty sure that quantum behavior is not limited to 5000 atoms. Waves, even very large onses, are moving energy in "packets". 1 wave - 1 quanta. So, what?

Photon is radio-wave (EM-wave). Typical photon is produced and consumed by a electron, so properties of photon produced by an electron are limited by the electron, also, our abilty to detect photonare limited by the electron. However, EM-waves in general are not limited by electron.

On smaller scale, electron interacts with other charged particles and with EM-field (the medium) via EM-waves. I'm pretty sure that electron is not staying stil, it's vibrating because of thermal noise. Vibration of charged particle produces EM-waves. Those EM-waves are not photons.