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dinckelman, 10 miesięcy temu do games w ‘We are not a retro company’: Sega prepares to go back to the future

They’re not a retro company. They’re just stuck in the past, and unable to head into the future. The consistency and the quality of their products say everything anyone needs to know

NuraShiny, 10 miesięcy temu do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Well duh. It’s a hell of acid storms and sulfur, how would it have had life?

HubertManne, 10 miesięcy temu

I mean sulfur is an important component of life and extremeophiles can handle many conditions. When I heard things about possible life at venus it was generally the idea of microorganisms floating in the atmosphere.

TheWolfOfSouthEnd, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m not meaning to sound sarcastic or like I’m taking the piss, but how do we know there are no life forms that like acid storms and sulphur?

NuraShiny, 10 miesięcy temu

This headline says earth-like life. I just didn’t repeat the word.

huf, 10 miesięcy temu

there’s a bunch of life around the deep sea volcanoes that lives off sulphur and stuff, so technically it’d still be earth-like life :)

NuraShiny, 10 miesięcy temu

Fair point there!

acockworkorange, 10 miesięcy temu

Even if it doesn’t have now, it’s quite a leap to say it never had.

NuraShiny, 10 miesięcy temu

Is it? Why?

acockworkorange, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Earth was very inhospitable for life for quite some time. In the future, it could become barren again. What’s to say that Venus wasn’t once harboring life? We don’t know anywhere near enough of its geology to even guess that.

Agent641, 10 miesięcy temu do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Well no. By definition it had Venus-like life.

muhyb, 10 miesięcy temu

Zoidberg:

-If you call that living.

qyron, 10 miesięcy temu do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Earth-like would be, by definition, impossible. Venus-like, that, would be something.

remotelove, 10 miesięcy temu

Earth-like is a very broad term. If an organism has something similar to DNA or shared any kind of chemical processes it could be “earth-like”.

As an odd hypothetical example, there is a theory that fungi could potentially spread from planet to planet. Even with a billion or so years of independent evolution, fungi on Venus and fungi on Earth could still share some of the same traits.

qyron, 10 miesięcy temu

Nobody caught the dad joke vibe, I see.

remotelove, 10 miesięcy temu

It was overshadowed by the first bit where you said “by definition, impossible”. It kinda boned the delivery, TBH.

qyron, 10 miesięcy temu

Some you win, some you lose.

acockworkorange, 10 miesięcy temu

Some were born to sing the blues

qyron, 10 miesięcy temu

Which is a genre I enjoy very much.

acockworkorange, 10 miesięcy temu

Don’t stop believing
Hold on to that feeling
Streetlight people

qyron, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Can’t say I’ll write that to the blues but…

Olap, 10 miesięcy temu do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Not ruling out some stange bacterial life that’s generating phosphene however. Come on space agencies, Venus atmosphere sample mission when?

Gradually_Adjusting, 10 miesięcy temu do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

I can’t say I’m surprised

…But my relief is profound

lysy, 11 miesięcy temu do wolnyinternet w Guardian zamknął swoje konta na exTwitterze

Nic ciekawego, zaraz w kolejnym obmurowanym zamku się otworzą. Bo watpię, że zrezygnują ze spolecznosciowek albo wejdą całkowicie w fedi.

Sunshine, 11 miesięcy temu do trains w Another American railcar chemical leak: White House urges Ohio residents to heed calls to evacuate

Regulate the lines and electrify them!

obywatelle, rok temu do wolnyinternet w Brazylia: prezydent Lula stwierdza, że bogactwo Elona Muska nie oznacza, że świat musi zaakceptować jego „skrajnie prawicową 'wolną amerykankę'"

Ciekawe czy prorosyjską propagandę w Brazylii też będzie tak ochoczo zwalczał. :)

Wyrak, rok temu

Przecież to robi - zwalczając jeden z głownych rozsadników rosyjskiej propagandy jakim jest X

collapse_already, rok temu do trains w Another American railcar chemical leak: White House urges Ohio residents to heed calls to evacuate

Well, looks like Donald’s deregulation of the railroads is continuing to pay dividends.

fpslem, rok temu

I’ll blame the former guy all day long for his failings, but the Staggers Act deregulated the railroad industry in 1980, and was signed by Jimmy Carter. This mess has been a long time coming.

collapse_already, rok temu

In 2018, Trump rescinded an Obama era rule that required hazardous waste train cars to have pneumatic brakes intended to prevent derailments.

ChicoSuave, rok temu do trains w Another American railcar chemical leak: White House urges Ohio residents to heed calls to evacuate

They should evacuate out of Ohio.

UltraGiGaGigantic, rok temu do trains w Another American railcar chemical leak: White House urges Ohio residents to heed calls to evacuate

Some day we will all be Ohio.

lemmyseizethemeans, rok temu do trains w Another American railcar chemical leak: White House urges Ohio residents to heed calls to evacuate

Heckof a job Mayo Pete! Way to reign in those risky rail behaviors and insure public safety. Very presidential.

Rentlar, rok temu (edited rok temu) do trains w ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train

To play H2’s advocate for a moment, if LA can’t seem to get the financial and political backing to invest in electrification quickly, it is a potential way for LA to pull a “passenger train network” out of its ass in time for the 2028 Olympics…

It’s quieter and no emissions at the location of travel kind similar to CNG/LNG. (Some electricity face similar problems of not being zero emissions from generation)… but I do think it’s worth exploring for some minor applications.

Edit: to be clear, electric and battery trains are better technologies by miles and miles. Just that the oil and freight rail lobbyists are in California’s pocket for now so I’m just saying the best case scenario for Los Angeles given the powers that be and hold SoCal back

fpslem, rok temu

Honestly, if LA did tons of rail and it was all diesel powered, it would still be a huge improvement in carbon emissions, not to mention the traffic and urban density benefits.

fpslem, rok temu do trains w ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train

I posted this because I think this is absolutely silly. A hydrogen-powered train that runs on a low-volume 9-mile track? Why on earth couldn’t this just run on gantry-provided electric power? I guess it’s fine as an experimental trial system, but let’s not pretend that hydrogen is better than electric in basically every rail application imaginable.

Jumuta, rok temu

it’s also hilarious that the picture in the article shows overhead wires