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Light travels 2000 km in 7 ms. Maybe you took the inverse and got 150 Hz?

When ICANN reserved .internal a couple years ago, I was saying they should just flip and truncate it to .lan(retni) so everyone's happy.

> How come folks can’t conserve energy?

The whole economy runs on energy, and we have a lot of fossil fuels to replace.

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> Write a song about the T-rex. First line "Hotter than a crocodile, cooler than a chicken". Format for aisonggenerator.io.

Then I copied the output to aisonggenerator.io (1 free song per day), and used Audacity/Tenacity to record the MP3 because they make you pay to download.

A solar array makes the earth less reflective by a fixed amount, for as long as the array exists.

Every unit of fossil fuel we burn makes the earth permanently less reflective (or at least something on the order of 100 years). You could compare a 1GW solar array (for its lifetime) to a 1GW coal plant running for x days, though I don't have the value of x.

Even if you ignore my LLM numbers, "what percent of a reactor's output must be reinvested to enrich its own fuel?" is a meaningful contribution to the discussion.

Take these numbers with a grain of salt because I got them by chatting with AIs, but if you're producing electricity from HALEU, then centrifuges require reinvesting <1% of the output, whereas historical calutrons required 200% (useless) and modern technology could potentially bring that down to 10%.

So calutrons will always be less energy efficient than centrifuges, but if the capital cost and construction time is low enough, calutrons might still be economically viable.

Gravity is not "harvested", it just stores the energy briefly. Someone or something has to lift the weight for every shot, which requires energy.

It's not obvious whether a trebuchet is better than compressed air, like a BB gun.

Popcorn bags are a significant source of PFAS and microplastics.

So the content falls down at 10 m/s^2 unless you're falling alongside it.

The openness of those codecs depend on the last patent expiring, not the first.

Note that MPEG-4 part 2 is H.263/DivX/XviD, not H.264.