The first reconstruction of dinosaurs in this episode:
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It will so weird in like, 40 years or something seeing political memes on school history books to show how people behaved in those times in the face of historical events, in the same way that history books have political cartoons from the 1800s.
โฆor they will have just some belgiumty ben garrison cartoon and move on, because that would be an pretty school history book thing to do.
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Not saying that the results of the vote are done but I hope that the forum doesnโt have some sort of a grudge against Rompโฆ
In Poland, weโre already getting memes on exam sheets xD
For example: Task 14 on the Polish language eighth-grader exam 2023 (standard version)
Translation
Task 14. (0โ2)[1]
Do the contents of the picture below agree with the Unlock your talent text?
In justification, formulate an argument referring to both the text by Jolanta
Maria Berent and the picture.
[picture of a snail riding a skateboard]
TALENT
You do what you love.
based on: www.demotywatory.pl
[bunch of lines providing space for an answer]
Honestly canโt wait to start seeing them in school curriculum, cause that belgium will be hilarious.
between 0 and 2 points can be gained through completing this task โฉ๏ธ
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Anybody else noticed problems with kurzgesagtโs Venus and Mars terraformation videos?
In the Venus one, they use giant space mirrors which would most likely be immedietly destroyed by micro-meteorites and possibly tidal forces.
In the Mars video they use laser satellites which are powered by many more satellites, which cannot be good since having so much light hit the laser satelliteโs solar panels would heat them up real quick.
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Asking a question: How large is a disturbance, a romp and a โbeen grinding for da viewโ creature?
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Whatever disturb. eats, it must sustain its mass which I am guessing canโt be too big. The way romp is suggested to move suggests it is not too large either
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Wait, where does disturbance have itโs mouth (and maybe also brain) at? In case of romp it seems similar to Earthly vertabrates, but disturbance has an eardrum for itโs โheadโโฆ
i remember there being a picture drawn by someone where the disturbance opened up its โfaceโ to reveal a horrifying mouth
I wonder where it can be found
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one much easier, cheaper, and faster to start (from where we are now technologically) way of terraforming venus than they explained would be seeding it with algae designed specifically to live in conditions like those of venusโ survivable portion of its atmosphere, and waiting a couple hundreds of centuries.
alternatively, we could send robots that use an electrotrophic carbon fixing organism that they keep as cold as they can (probably in specialized buildings they make, but theyโd have to keep samples about 700 degrees colder than the surrounding atmosphere for quite a while before the building was running) while having them work and make both oxygen and biofuel (most of the second one gets shipped to othrer locations for use) from electricity gathered by solar panels above the cloud layer, some minerals, the 70% CO2 of venusโ atmosphere, and water to decrease the heat retention of the venutian atmosphere over mere centuries, rather than hundreds of them, at the cost of more work and needing to have robots heat resistant above the melting point of lead and likely able to store a lot of oxygen at those temps to burn the biofuel with so we donโt have to worry about the heat making batteries degrade fast, and we could instead just use capacitors to jump start the bots if they turn off, though theyโd need to keep their engines running at all times in areas with a risk of not getting recovered to keep material costs as low as possible.
as for how to get the materials to build stuff with, lead melts below the surface temps youโll be starting with, so you could probably use that as a very high temp lubricant
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My personal headcanon about disturbance is that they is just the generic representation of aliens in Birrin culture. There is alot of reasons but nyeeeeh iโm tired of typing on phone
This sounds more fearsible than the kurzgesragt video. I can imagine some advanced venera kind of thing being deployed on venus on the future than GIANT SPACE MIRRORS
Using lead as an lubrificant sounds so metalโฆ
Ba dum tsssโฆ
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So how large would they be?
Talking about terraforming planets made me think of Elon musks nuke mars tweet,
So an hour later I (probably messed up the math) but got we need a little less than 16,560,000,000,000 giga joules of energy to boil the ice caps (3 million cubic kilometers of ice) of mars and all the nukes in the world have the combined energy of 24,000,000,000 giga joules. 35 percent of which going into thermal energy getting 8,400,000,000 giga joules of heat (ignoring fallout) enough to raise the caps at -240 Fahrenheit by almost exactly 2 thousandths of a degree assuming the nukes are โspread evenlyโ through all the ice which is even underground
I must have said โgiga jouleโ a thousand times.
I feel like thatโs gotta be incomplete, thinking like it it cracked apart and scattered the ice the sun could do a lot of our work, then the problem is mars. The ice would sublimate, then the atmosphere would thin away. If you thickened marsโ atmosphere beforehand it might actually work, but if youโre putting that much effort in you should just build some giant warming mirrors instead of making the planet a bigger cancer risk than it already is, which sounds like reverse terraforming to me.
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From what Iโve found Elon musk never says anything โcompleteโ and scattering the ice in warmer areas are still -80 degrees but over multiple interviews he says something along the lines of โfiring nukes at the poles wouldnโt completely terraform it but would start making the atmosphere better.โ. it would probably much easier and quicker to use the thousands of nukes the world already has than to make a gigantic mirror and get it all the way to mars, but yeah I donโt know how it wouldnโt make mars more radioactive. (seems like a better use for nukes though if weโre not going to use them in reactors and can already destroy earth.)
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Are artificial worlds (like a ring-world) really that much better than planets suitable for terraformation?
- They may be hit by micrometeorites, breaching the shields keeping the air needed for life inside the world to survive inside, causing everyone inside to slowly suffocate
- They may need extra structures to be completely safe, like solar wind and UV ray blockers
- They would cost a lot of resources and time to construct
if you wanna nuke mars back into a habitable planet, dig to the center of the core, place your nukes and a wire, cover the hole with some kind of cement over the course of a few months, evacuate, then detonate. youโll need enough force in the nukes to shatter the entire planet, but itโll melt the core and some of the mantle pretty thoroughly.
Why shatter planet to move it? If you mean it would rebuild at some point it would be semi-Mars at this point, if you can call it that.
I would rather reactivate Marsโ core as well as all its volcanoes, which should create a planetary magnetic field to protect water particles that come out of volcanoes.