Tlaloc_Temporal

Rock paper scissors is so childish, upgrade to Boulder Book Jaws!

Hydraulic press?

Better than pavement. Of course some native grasses would be better, but this is still an improvement.

So it’s like chewing cud, except it’s multiple passes of the same stomach instead of different stomachs.

TL;DR: Beaks are a lot lighter and more easily adapted than teeth.

They aren’t insects, but most arachnids have book lungs, which are basically a pocket full of air gills.

Those things tend to be full of fancy bells and whistles too, and many don’t even get a full legth bed anymore. The market isn’t targeting workers with them.

Legolas can also tell that they carry spears and their leader is taller than average. Spectral information is unlikely to tell him that.

I think it’s been styled to match the spectrographs in the background.

Still hard to read.

It might be more accurate to say the average person knows more about what we don’t know about the ocean than what we don’t know about the moon.

We have a decent idea about what can and may exist in and about Earth’s oceans, but less about the moon; and most people assume it’s just a dusty rock too.

And only 20% as wrong! I hope. :P

That would be a stupidly hight amount of charge.

For a very rough estimate, thunderstorms peak at about 6.7 nanocoulombs of charge per m³, or 4.2e10 fewer electrons per m³. Cumulonimbus clouds have roughly 2 grams of water per m³, or 6.7e22 atoms per m³. Thus, thunderstorms have 1 in 10e12 fewer electrons.

To fully ionize water, you would need something like a trillion times as much voltage as lightning, and the ability to insulate the sample from other sources of electrons like any nearby matter.

This might be feasible at very small scales, but the result would be just as dangerous. A bunch of protons that really want electrons nearby would pull lightning from anywhere they could, and would be unbelievably corrosive. Something like a pH of -23.7, although pH breaks down long before this point.

Such a substance completely devoid of electrons would also repel itself very strongly, so it would evaporate into gaseous protons basically instantly. “Normal” plasma is much more stable because the electrons are separated by temperature rather than by electric change. High electric charges are much more difficult to contain.

I’m not a physicist though, so I’m likely wrong on the details.

Also remember that carbon is lost as the metal is worked, so the strength can be increased simply by working the metal longer. This is how wrought iron is produced, although wrought iron ends up having a much lower carbon content in the process of removing slag.

That’s a really salty fluid, or a strong acid/base. Plasma just has temperature driving the ionization, rather than chemistry.

Gender BEC would be a low energy gathering where all of a sudden everyone is on the same wavelength.

Gender Time Crystal would be someone who switches between two genders regularly.

By the same logic, we don’t detect light, just the change in shape of certain proteins. The sky isn’t blue, it’s a subset of sunlight. We don’t really touch things, we transmit forces with tiny magnets. Computers don’t really do math, they just arrange states in certain ways.

I somewhat agree. Given enough time we can make a machine that does anything a human can do, but some things will take longer than others.

It really depends on what you call human intelligence. Lots of animals have various behaviors that might be called intelligent, like insane target tracking, adaptive pattern recognition, kinematic pathing, and value judgments. These are all things that AI aren’t close to doing yet, but that could change quickly.

There are perhaps other things that we take for granted than might end up being quite difficult and necessary, like having two working brains at once, coherent recursive thoughts, massively parallel processing, or something else we don’t even know about yet.

I’d give it a 50-50 chance for singularity this century, if development isn’t stopped for some reason.

No, fish have digestive tracts that go all the way through. Changing that would be way harder than keeping it mostly empty or full of water to make it clear.

Nah, 42,000$ is more natural and consistent with other units.

I’m rocking an S8 as long as I can, but no updates in 5 years is starting to cause compatability issues. I’ll have to look into /e/OS soon I think.