sandgiant
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Comment · 2 months ago
> NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this sand-capped butte, nicknamed “Miraflores,” estimated to be about 20 feet (6 meters) tall, on June 11, 2026. The surrounding area includes an expanse of terrain covered in surface features called polygons.
From https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curios...
Comment · 1 year ago
I highly recommend the 1990 Polish stop motion TV series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series). The only one that, to me, captures the magic of the books.
Comment · 1 year ago
Works perfectly in 1Password. One-click sign-in is awesome! I don't understand the hate towards passkeys. Managing passwords for non-techies is infinitely worse in my experience.
Comment · 1 year ago
This has the same number of free parameters as LambdaCDM. Also this result only looks supernovae, i.e. low redshift sources. LambdaCDM is tested on cosmological scales.
Very interesting, but “more work is needed”.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well no, that's not the reason why we're not Boltzmann Brains. A Boltzmann Brain is perfectly capable of believing that it is sensing reality in exactly the same way that your brain believes so.
It is worth reading the section "Modern reactions to the Boltzmann brain problem" in the article to understand why the Boltzmann Brain is a useful thought experiment.
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
If you like audio books I can highly recommend the book Endurance by Alfred Lansing, read by Simon Prebble. Perhaps the best audio book I’ve ever listened to.
Comment · 2 years ago
The third one is also very good! It’s the first book I would think of if you asked me about Endurance.
The audio book narrated version by Simon Prebble is outstanding.
https://github.com/askielboe/lightning-launcher