mangaskahn

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[–] mangaskahn 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So like most Authoritarians then? They're all for it until their side isn't in charge anymore.

[–] mangaskahn 10 points 7 months ago

The problem is that it's not shoved in the router, that's why you have to agree to send them your data. Those features run on someone else's computer instead of in the router itself.

[–] mangaskahn 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps the article is over simplifying, but even if it isn't, to be able to calculate an upper bound for something we didn't have before is valuable. With more data, they'll be able to understand the range of spin speeds in similar objects, and how those correlate to mass and age. Once they have a solid baseline, they can start to look at outliers and try to understand why those are different. Science is a learning journey, not necessarily a destination.

[–] mangaskahn 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] mangaskahn 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, the individual words have meanings, as words tend to do. Those words, in that order, form a NCIS, two people typing on the same keyboard, level word salad that has so little real world relevance that it tips soundly into the absurd.

[–] mangaskahn 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nerd sniped. ^^

[–] mangaskahn 5 points 9 months ago

This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.

[–] mangaskahn 1 points 9 months ago

There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

[–] mangaskahn 6 points 9 months ago

The way I understand it is that time itself is altered by gravity and/or velocity. So atomic decay that occurs on a very specific cadence in each reference frame will not occur simultaneously in 2 or more different reference frames that are not in the same gravity, moving at the same velocity. There's even a measurable though very small difference in the passage of time between sea level and high mountains due to the difference in gravity. I'm leaving a lot out and there's a bunch of math involved, but i think that's mostly correct.

[–] mangaskahn 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The State of Indiana tried to define it to 1 digit by law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill?wprov=sfla1

Thankfully, the bill was never passed.

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