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Neil Armbong posted:Nah, he seemed like he would but was too smug of a know it all. Idk if it was the weed that helped him, but Carl Sagan absolutely nailed how to speak about science on a level everyone can understand and not come across condescending. Oh yeah, 100% agree; I think as it relates to public interest/etc, STEM would be much better off if Carl Sagan had lived longer; there really hasn't been anyone close to him since.
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Air Skwirl posted:Over in the UK they got Brian Cox and Dara O'Brian doing their science shows. A literal rock musician (who also has a science doctorate) and a professional stand-up comic. So you're saying we should give ICP and Bill Burr a science show together?
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swickles posted:Do you mean Brian May? Unless Brian Cox also has a PhD... Brian Cox posted:I love you, but you are not serious scientists.
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Kalli posted:So you're saying we should give ICP and Bill Burr a science show together? Has to be better than Neil Degrasse Tyson.
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Huh, TIL there’s two Brits named Brian Cox in the public eye, one an actor one a physicist, I was only familiar with the former https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(actor) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
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Thaddius the Large posted:Huh, TIL there’s two Brits named Brian Cox in the public eye, one an actor one a physicist, I was only familiar with the former This whole time I was thinking of Bears legend Bryan Cox 
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Welp I did not know any of that stuff about Neil DegrasseTyson and that's super disappointing. I totally agree he's not got the way of speaking or charisma of carl sagan, but nobody does, so that's not a standard I want to hold people to. What I'd liked about Tyson was his willingness to go onto any platform and just explain things, which is a thing tons of scientists are extremely bad at, and we just need a lot more scientists willing and able to give simple or understandable explanations for things in their field One of the greats at that in writing was Steven Jay Gould, back when people got their science tidbits via newspaper articles and books, and we need people like that for the visual short media like youtube clips. His focus was natural history and evolution. I've seen Brian Cox a lot on the youtubes lately, mostly people stealing clips of him from other shows and playing them as youtube shorts, and he's OK. He sometimes gives in to the temptation to talk about purely theoretical poo poo (as in, there's no foundation in reality, like "maybe we can someday do warp travel") that physicists are prone to babbling about and I wish he didn't - Sabine Hossenfelder has a lot to say on that subject, and I like her channel, but she goes too far in the opposite direction and a lot of her videos are simply too in depth on the hard physics and math to really understand. Tyson kind of found a middle ground between the two that I usually liked. Oh well.
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Kalli posted:So you're saying we should give ICP and Bill Burr a science show together? Dexter Holland, the lead singer of Offspring, has a phd in molecular biology.
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Mar 4, 2024 22:13
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Id watch Bill Burr in a science show. I like Bill.
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The SC decision isn't exactly going to effect the election considering the only states that would take Trump off the ballot anyway are safe blue ones
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BlindSite posted:Id watch Bill Burr in a science show. I like Bill. Loved watching him make pies https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LoWCMzHWlRk&pp=ygUTQmlsbCBidXJyIG1ha2VzIHBpZQ%3D%3D
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Bill Burr scientifically proving the city of Philadelphia can go gently caress itself
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I nominate Leperflesh as The New Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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BlindSite posted:Id watch Bill Burr in a science show. I like Bill. He was good in Mandalorian, although the existence of a Space Boston Planet makes the Death Star seem useful…
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Intruder posted:The SC decision isn't exactly going to effect the election considering the only states that would take Trump off the ballot anyway are safe blue ones It would theoretically depress turnout in the red enclaves in those states. NY loving around with the last election is the reason the republicans have the house, for example. It'd also spell the end for representatives like Lauren Boebert, though she's likely dead in the water anyway.
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I might volunteer to be an election judge again in November, and I'm kind of glad Trump is still on the ballot because having to listen to 100 people ask me why they can't vote for Trump would not make my day very fun. Illinois was considering a similar proposal to CO, but had postponed any decisions until the SC decision came through.
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harperdc posted:And it’s a problem short term, because Europe is going to require sourcing and recycled contents minimums for all kinds of batteries by 2030, and that will de facto raise the requirements in the U.S. as well. 300 mile range is poo poo for shipping. I have a daily trip we call the Portland trip because it comes from Portland, but it actually starts in SLC.
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Air Skwirl posted:300 mile range is poo poo for shipping. I have a daily trip we call the Portland trip because it comes from Portland, but it actually starts in SLC. 300 mile range will be plenty for the medium duty guys - like school buses and delivery vans - and even day cabs. Two big questions though - can it recharge enough overnight to be serviceable the next day, and what's the battery's lifespan and replacement cost versus buying a replacement ICE truck?
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Local deliveries with a 300 mile range seems doable. Long haul trucking with a 300 mile range does not.
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I still think the real trick, and honestly the only way we get to a large majority of people using electric vehicles is when batteries become standardized and able to be hot swapped. Like pull into a station, its get jacked up, old battery removed and new one put in, then drive off. It would have to take as long as a refueling and be about as much cost wise. You could even retrofit gas stations to do it. Problem is that requires buy in from competitors, plus all of them working toward a common goal and technology. Its just a lot easier to say gently caress them kids and roll with it.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Local deliveries with a 300 mile range seems doable. Long haul trucking with a 300 mile range does not. what's the usual daily range for long haul trucking?
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swickles posted:I still think the real trick, and honestly the only way we get to a large majority of people using electric vehicles is when batteries become standardized and able to be hot swapped. Like pull into a station, its get jacked up, old battery removed and new one put in, then drive off. It would have to take as long as a refueling and be about as much cost wise. You could even retrofit gas stations to do it. Problem is that requires buy in from competitors, plus all of them working toward a common goal and technology. Its just a lot easier to say gently caress them kids and roll with it. It works well with mopeds, but car batteries are so huge and heavy I don't know how we do the infrastructure for that. Now for my far less realistic 20 step plan to instead remove most vehicles from major cities via mass transit and increasing density. Ideally you'd see electric expand to like post office vehicles, school and other city busses. Or you know Taxis in a country where we didn't burn that to the ground. Kalli fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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JPrime posted:what's the usual daily range for long haul trucking? Probably around 500-600 miles or so on average.
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Canned Sunshine posted:Probably around 500-600 miles or so on average. Yeah our drivers will do 500 on a longer haul day. Make a whole 4.5mpg on average.
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Its like the opposite of the Wonka thing: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1764560298688565710?t=XXxaAVyVtEYvny3LyjXbXg&s=19
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Obviously battery technology will change and all that jazz over time, but expanding rail and then having local deliveries as the last leg would be the most economical. It will never happen though so we will try to make it so we can have 800 trucks all headed in the same direction on batteries instead.
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Boy it’d be great to go back in time and not rip out however million miles of railroad track this country used to have.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Boy it’d be great to go back in time and not rip out however million miles of railroad track this country used to have. Besides Burnin' Sherman, did we actually rip out railroad track? I just assumed that we're using a lot of the original alignments, just replaced over time, and the lines that that aren't in use were just abandoned?
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Canned Sunshine posted:Besides Burnin' Sherman, did we actually rip out railroad track? I just assumed that we're using a lot of the original alignments, just replaced over time, and the lines that that aren't in use were just abandoned? Oh yeah, all over the place. Land reclaimed to be built on, or hell just biking / walking paths in more affluent areas. For example, when i bought my house in 2010, a mile and a half chunk of this path was most of my walk to work: https://brucefreemanrailtrail.org/
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Anyway, be transported back to high school: https://twitter.com/stonersvilla/status/1763953497366516141
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Kalli posted:Anyway, be transported back to high school: Pretty sure I saw people doing this at a party a few weeks ago, but also, Florida Men gonna Florida.
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Kalli posted:Anyway, be transported back to high school: high school? I'm in California, son!
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Kalli posted:Anyway, be transported back to high school: God drat haven’t thought about the ol water bottle bong in a couple decades lmao No Butt Stuff posted:Obviously battery technology will change and all that jazz over time, but expanding rail and then having local deliveries as the last leg would be the most economical. A while back some agency here in CO published an assessment of how long it would take to build light rail from Fort Collins down to Denver. It was like 75 years aka “not happening, ever, gently caress you for even asking” Reasonable rail service was one of the biggest things I liked about the Boston area. People bitch about the T and for good reason but at least it exists. Being able to get all over the city and a surprisingly large swathe of suburbia without a car was pretty dope. Hell you could take Amtrak all the way to Maine.
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We always did the cutoff 2 liter bottle in a bucket of water
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https://x.com/bnonews/status/1764781238550680002?s=46&t=CBKJcBX0BD3U5HgUdsqBtw I guess there are people who fall for these
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No Butt Stuff posted:Obviously battery technology will change and all that jazz over time, but expanding rail and then having local deliveries as the last leg would be the most economical. This is how a lot of rail freight works? It’s actually really inefficient via when we used to have rail going straight to where freight was needed.
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Kalli posted:Anyway, be transported back to high school: It’s nice having reached the point in my life where I see stuff like that and think “oh cool, the opportunity to be paralyzed on my couch for 6 hours reliving every last personal anxiety and moment of existential dread”
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trevorreznik posted:This whole time I was thinking of Bears legend Bryan Cox BEARS legend? Lmao If you’re a bears poster I apologize for the obvious joke
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Rectal Placenta posted:We always did the cutoff 2 liter bottle in a bucket of water Yeah with a 9mm socket melted into the cap as the bowl
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swickles posted:Its like the opposite of the Wonka thing: This dude definitely hosed the popcorn bucket.
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