plus it can lift off all by itself. so if it wants to go on a multi-day journey, it doesn’t have to ask a passer-by to lift it up and throw it into the air to get it going.

:o yeah indeed

because people seem to think that you need to have big areas to generate meaningful amounts of energy. this proves that’s not the case.

yeah it’s really really fragile. they show it in the video, one of the panels broke because a cat stepped on it. obviously not very suited for real-world deployment.

however i do wonder why they use polycrystalline silicon and not just amorphous silicon? I mean 20% efficiency instead of 8% makes a difference but i did some rough maths and it could still work with amorphous silicon if you use the area on the drone better. But amorphous silicon has the advantage of making a very thin and flexible layer that doesn’t break easily. It’s essentially more like a flexible piece of cloth instead of a solid object. Maybe worth a consideration.

the thing is that the amount of power on that little patch of area is actually a lot; we just continue to underestimate it because it doesn’t feel like much. i mean, we stand under direct sunlight all day long and never feel like a train hits us. however, the amount of energy in the sunlight is quite a lot, we’re just very good at ignoring it.

What’s crazy to me is that the zebra seems to display no emotion at all while the crocodile literally rips its leg off.

that’s not true. you’re claiming to know me better than i know myself. what hybris

what if the almond milk is watered down?

i’m asking because it almost always is

The problem with being more permissive with naming is that the realistic outcome is simply gonna be that companies take the chance to deliver cheaper quality at the expense of the consumer.

Like, if the requirement that milk actually has to be cow milk is loosened, what’s stopping the companies from just mixing the cow milk with water and selling that as “milk”?

it doesn’t have to be the biggest problem in your life to take it seriously

The problem i have is just that i walk into a store, buy some cheese for my cheese toast, then later at home discover it’s not “cheese” but some disgusting mixture of plant oils and flavour agents that makes me want to vomit and throw up.

The problem is not vegan products existing, but them deceiving and tricking the ordinary person about what they are with no clear labeling. It simply has to be explicit that it is not what a normal person thinks when they read “cheese”, but some other experimental food instead.

change creates its own problems though, just like a necessary re-construction of an old building will create a lot of noise. so you gotta find a balance

The alcanes were likely formed from amorphous chunks of carbon as they are produced inside stars and emitted through supernovas.

If you just take amorphous carbon and put it under high temperatures and pressure, you get synthetic oil. Literally. This is how oil formed on Earth. There is no necessity that the carbon came from living beings. You can read up more about this here.

The Fischer–Tropsch process (FT) is a collection of chemical reactions that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, known as syngas, into liquid hydrocarbons. These reactions occur in the presence of metal catalysts, typically at temperatures of 150–300 °C (302–572 °F) and pressures of one to several tens of atmospheres. The Fischer–Tropsch process is an important reaction in both coal liquefaction and gas to liquids technology for producing liquid hydrocarbons.[1]

In other words, you start with inorganic starting materials (carbon monoxide and hydrogen), put them under high pressure and temperature, and end up with oil. You get alcanes just like the ones discovered on Mars.

I don’t really do drugs either, well maybe the occasional coffee 2x a week and weed and shrooms once every month/year but i don’t like having my senses blurred in any way. I also don’t live in the US today so that’s significant.

Anything will look good on an attractive person.

i would prefer SiO2 personally, also known as silicate. It has the most straightforward and boring mineral composition but a nice sheen and it clearly shows the other person values efficiency as much as i do.

I think a regular work week should be reduced to 30 hours/week, people can work longer but everything above that is overtime and paid accordingly.

thanks :D

You’re welcome :)

yeah i’ve of course heard about it and i’m studying physics myself rn so i’ll get to it.

I simply haven’t taken the course on quantum physics yet so i don’t want to make bold claims here. I have yet to derive the classical phenomena from quantum physics myself.