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Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
> 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?

Comment · 3 years ago
> 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)

Comment · 3 years ago
Gravitational wells are spherical, so this unevenness can be utilized to lift up by pumping energy into higher energy state, at higher orbit.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.

Comment · 3 years ago
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.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Evaporation cannot create pressure needed to run turbine, while boiling will, but boiling will create highly corrosive steam with salt.
Comment · 3 years ago

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