fractalizard

Indeed.

Some people should just grow up already :)

why are you putting hackers in quotes? they presented their findings at a hacker conference and they used some cool hacks to fix trains, does that not qualify them as hackers?

* Mike Oldfield starts playing in the background *

marble is less resistant to heat but might work if it’s not directly in contact with the ambers and a little away from the fire. Chemically it is CaCO₃ and if you heat it enough it will start to decompose to CaO and CO₂ and crumble. It is a similar process to what you would see in a cement kiln :); not exactly stable but also not dangerous if it happens outside.

do you want natural rock or is synthetic also ok? also do they need to be resistant to freezing water as well? its not clear if there will be any kind of roof above…
very conservative answer would be something like granite, diorite or similar dense rock. if you have protection from water you can also use more porous rocks like sandstone.

Reading the wiki article reveals they used whoever was available and cheap: Soyus 2 (Russian, until 2022), LVM 3 (Indian,since 2022), Falcon 9 (USA, since 2022)

It makes sense for a company that does not build rockets to just use whats on the market.

maybe time for CV dazzle: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13507
This is not foolproof (read the paper for details) but it can help to protect peoples identities if used correctly.

It makes a lot more sense once you consider where you are starting from: a rock hurtling around the sun at breakneck speed (29.8 km/s). You can not really bullseye something when you are going almost 30 km per second sideways to it.

Eutelsat

OneWeb is owned by Eutelsat and i think that is the one they refer to in the article. OneWeb satelites use 450 km - 1200 km orbits so 3 to 8 ms delay assuming the signal goes straight up and straight down again.

That is mostly because those numbers take the average occupancy level into account. Cars are rarely driven with a passenger in every available seat.

If you replace a short haul flight with a ride on a train you could easily cut carbon emissions by 75% Source

On the short term: maybe
On the long term: makes absolutely no difference. Some of the soot from those fires might actually settle in the soil and stay there for 100 - 1000 years, which is probably the least harmful way petro chems could be converted. The portion that would have been converted to plastics and rubber might be a grey zone, but not a large one, since a large portion of that is burned at the end of its useful life.

upvote for use of capital ß

Check out their road map and the videos of their prototypes. It is very much not a tech bro project :). The first goal isnt event maglev but magnetic propulsion.

If you want to go faster you want to go contactless which means building a whole new, incompatible, network.

retrofitting and hybrid operation seems possible though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevomo
they already built a small working prototype

Heh, I have two laptops: one with Arch and one with Ubuntu. I like both systems. I guess i like triggering myself.

Also very often overlooked: the Amazonas as we know it today is NOT wild in any way. It is a cultural landscape that started around the time when humans settled that area but not later than 11tya

[…] large portions of the Amazon rainforest are probably the result of centuries of human management, rather than naturally occurring as has previously been supposed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest#cite_ref-24

a surrender condition that lets Russia retain all the land they’ve taken

A while ago there was a prediction about the true intentions of the russia negotiating: they want to stop Ukraine from succeeding as a state, since that would be a bad omen for a neighbouring kleptocracy.
If this prediction comes true the outcome you describe is actually very unlikely, because the russia would rather continue fighting just to keep the region in shambles.

Actually using AI gibberish for this might be the best strategy of all, since Reddit seems hell bent on making money with AI training and feeding AI generated text into AI training has been shown to yield increasingly worse results over time. So you make the product Reddit is selling less attractive.