Tlaloc_Temporal

70% of the time, bloom is garbage, 25% of the time it’s garbage and is covering up other graphical issues. 5% of the time, it gives some nice depth to light and emphasizes brightness differences, even without HDR.

I think you missed the reasoning behind the “dead” part.

If the hammer doesn’t bounce when it hits, it’s not as lively, and lands like a dead body.

Well it does have a claw, but it specifically has the nail holder.

Large corporations are overly litigious. Individuals can’t afford to be litigious enough.

I think most if not all tetrapods should have the 1-2-3-4-5 hierarchy for their arms and legs (although the later branches often fuse together).

I just checked, and mice have the 1-2 pattern for front and hind limbs. It’s just the arms that are weird, but this mouse’s arms have always been weird.

Edit: I just saw the legs again, those are definitely screwed up too.

And wild curves of extrapolation, and wild planes of extrapolation, and wild queues of extrapolation, and…

Some cells are getting 47%, which is ridiculous for a generator! The theoretical maximum efficiency for solar cell from the sun as it appears in the sky is about 68%, so that’s pretty good!

However, how expensive is that cell going to be? How much maintenance does it need, and how fragile is the system once deployed? It’s very obvious that PV efficiency has beed skyrocketing recently, and I don’t thinks it’s stopping soon, but a commercial PV panel available today is just breaking 20% efficiency. Luckily, sunshine is quite abundant.

Ooo, good call.

There’s also radioisotope piezoelectric generators, where the electrons are caught by a cantilever and then released in regular pulses. An electron waterwheel if you will.

Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn’t until a few months ago.

Kermi Tree Frog

Lots of metamorphic bugs do this. Even the ones that eat as adults often die that same year, after 3-20 years as a larva.

The only really new kinds are thermocouples (mostly garbage) and solar panels (poor efficiency, but abundant fuel).

Some fusion might end up using magnet pumping, which is basically just a plasma powered piston.

I feel like this is more an issue of poor healthcare than personal choice. It seems like rather than the U.S. chosing to be opt-in, they are physically unable to give everyone the choice to opt-out.

This exactly. I don’t speak latin and don’t want to.

Several videos have been removed (including one for being violent?).

The original came from twitter, but has since been removed (I think, maybe x is just bad), but the DailyMail did a news article on it (ugh) and happen to still host the video.

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/08/03/5104484344653724905/480x270_MP4_5104484344653724905.mp4

You don’t need giant EMS vehicles is cities. I bet 95% of EMS vehicles in large cities never leave city limits. Even if absolute units of EMS vehicles are somehow necessary for rural service (I doubt that), smaller, safer vehicles could easily service urban areas.

There’s still miles of countryside between cities in the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Many of Canada’s cities have fantastically walkable neighborhoods and light train services, and Canada has even more unreachable rural areas than the Sates. Urban solutions are almost completely unaffected by the size of the rural areas.

These solutions can all happen in individual cities and even towns. How many hours of car driving away the next urban center is doesn’t affect where parking is placed, or zoning density, or where the highways are routed, or how fast the busses are, or whether a light train could be viable.

That’s probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.

Eh, that’s a few dozen steps removed. By that standard, every herbivore “uses” photosynthesis.

These guys (coral & lichen too) use photosynthesis much more directly, completely encapsulating the algea and supporting it internally. It’s much closer to mitochondria.

Also, the cooling effect sulphate aerosols can cause only really happens at high altitudes. At low altitudes the reflected light is less likely to escape to space, and the aerosols fall out of the air faster.

Even if they reached high altitudes, one of the effects of being in the atmosphere is moving with the wind, across entire hemispheres. And at tropospheric heights, sulphates, their products, and other byproducts of combustion may destroy ozone at significant levels.

There may come a day where aerosol-based geo-engineering becomes a part of climate management, but it’s definitely not with bunker fumes.