
A well narrated full sequence: youtube.com/watch?v=2u8LiTYJxp0
"Dr. Will Fowlds and his veterinary team move an African elephant to a nearby wildlife reserve. Using a new technique for capturing animals, they suspend the elephant and load it with a crane fully anesthetized, allowing it to wake gradually and safely inside the transport container."
Some of you may find it useful
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And these are right up there!
Also, is that a monster milling machine in the background?
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and we should all be grateful that he is interested in music and not weapons.
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and possibly a new twitter team
— Link to tweet
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List of important dates
On important date, treat yourself
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suspect that those responsible will find out that
work makes you free
to find other work
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ja Turtles, Heroes In A
Half Shell, Turtle Pow'r
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Glass shards in the wind
Fascism soon to follow
Our heads hang in shame
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I'll write SS on the side so you know which one that is.
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March 5, 1935:
Proper, good ol' fashioned filth
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So have one of their best songs.
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Still stands up today. Totally unique songwriting and then of course, that voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uvpr_gm64
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Did it sound like scrunched up plastic egg cartons?
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So much good stuff...that'll be soundtracking my commute to work in the morning...
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See also that 'Grime' compilation that Rephlex put out.
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I thought I'd check out the Rephlex website to see if it's in the back-catalogue. Once you scroll past Warp, Ninja Tunes, XL Records et al they seem to be recommending a bunch of porn sites, then robbie williams and mel b. No back-catalogue in sight. If you've got the name I'd be interested in checking it out though.
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www.discogs.com/release/264005-Various-Grime
More dubstep than grime...
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...is what I immediately think of when I see that picture.
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I love this Cylob track, its spiritual successor...I remember the first time I heard it, at some electronica night, the random punter stood next to me and I both looked at each other and said WTF is this???
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I'll file this under songs where they express that they want to limit the audible frequency spectrum, while continuing to propogate across the full audible frequency spectrum.
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this EP had a big impact on me when it came out...
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"According to scientists, space is really big, and nobody lives there."
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Regarding shooting it into the sun, there are a couple of cheaper ways to do it:
1: It takes less delta-v to reach solar escape velocity than to launch directly into the sun, but you could send a rocket to the outskirts of the solar system for slightly less cost, at the apoapsis the velocity would be incredibly low, at which point you can spend a tiny amount of delta-v to lower your periapsis beneath the surface of the sun.
2: Alternatively, a solar sail, counter-intuitively, can lower your apoapsis more efficiently than it can raise it, and would only need solar power to get you into an orbit lower than Mercury's. It might not get you all the way to the sun before it fails, though.
Regarding burying it in subduction zones or geologically inactive areas, well that's fine, but it seems to me as if we are squandering a free energy source by doing that. If you have a lump of matter that's going to be hot for thousands of years, it seems to me like we could use that. If not on Earth, then definitely in space. It should be a good energy source for interstellar probes, for example.
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Throwing nuclear “waste” away is indeed silly though. Stupid non-proliferation treaties.
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Look at the Voyagers, they have no large radiators, just the standard RTG fins. The RTG is an internal part of the Cassini probe, which has no large radiator (unless the rear side of the solar panel counts..?). Are you thinking of fission reactors?
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You need a radiator for that in space. If you don’t remove heat from the cold side one way or another you eventually lose the temperature differential by simple conduction. Beta decay batteries don’t work like that but I don’t think they were used at that point.
If you look at the Cassini example you’ll see the fins going around the outside. That’s the radiator.
Ed: I should have been clearer: you need huge radiators if you want to generate more than a hundred watts or so. RTGs are great for longevity away from the sun but they’re not a practical source of large amounts of power.
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www.rocketstem.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/97pc1110.jpg
The only ones I see are the standard RTG fins in cutaway diagrams. Cassini also has a number of other isotopic heaters to keep the electrics warm, rather than worrying about overheating or not being able to shed enough heat with radiators.
"The spacecraft also carried 82 strategically placed radioisotope heater units (RHUs), which provided focused warmth in the form of one watt of thermal power each using a pencil eraser-sized pellet of plutonium dioxide. The Huygens probe used 35 similar RHUs to keep it warm on its descent to the frigid surface of the frigid Titan."
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/radioisotope-thermoelectric-generator/
My searches for "large radioisotope thermal generator radiators" is returning nothing relevant to your assertion.
I'm not calling you out, just confused.
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commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassini%27s_RTG.jpg
If you wanted to get more than a hundred watts out of it (which you would definitely need for anything interstellar) you’d need much bigger fins to make the temperature different larger; Seebeck generators are laughably inefficient to start with, which is probably why NASA started to look at Sterling engines instead.
Probably just a case of crossed wires here.
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I'm not sure you'd need that much more wattage for interstellar probes... I'm assuming either chucked potatoes or laser sails, with no exotic propulsion systems or even ion drives, just some mostly passive sensors and a laser or radio transmitter to send data back home (or to the nearest network node). That would just need enough battery storage to use sparingly, punctuating long recharge times.
The waste will be hot for thousands of years, so there's no need to rush. We could make shitloads of such probes.
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Lasers as you will know are neither perfectly collimated nor immune to being scattered by space dust. The last time I read about the subject they were talking about needing megawatts.
It’s all (literally) academic really.
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phys.org/news/2020-05-interstellar-probes-starshot.html
It would need at least one 30m receiver at this end, or possibly smaller assuming a relay network of probes. The denser the relay network, the less powerful and accurate each laser needs to be.
There's talk of drawing power from the interstellar medium, which sounds far fetched compared to nuclear waste. ;)
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I notice it also assumes improvements in detectors, which reminds me of something Carl Sagan once said about radio telescopes. Apparently if you summed up all the energy picked up by all the world’s radio telescopes it would amount to about the same as a single falling snowflake.
Let’s just build a few self-sustaining habitats, strap a few fusion rockets to them and fling 'em into the void eh?
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I must be going mad. I'm sure I watched a video about exactly this about a month ago.
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when it get full enough, winch it in
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It's going to be humanity's longest lasting legacy and you can never have enough for killing dissidents
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whichever amounts of radioactive energy or nuclear emissions man and woman have produced on Earth so far has 0 impact or consequence in the universe.
any material ejected beyond Earth's sphere of gravitational influence, i.e. towards the sun or or into Jupiter would basically become insignificant/non-existent to anything around it, like space.
uncalculable amounts of (radioactive) energy exist in and are exeted by unfathomable amounts of sources.
human's and huwoman's existence and doings on planet Earth practically have absolutely no impact or meaning in the universe
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but nuclear waste might help a yet to evolve equivalent species in the far future to piece together what humans were up to
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and realised that Tree of Life couldn't grow here.
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My god, what a load of shite.
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Honestly I enjoyed reading the entire John Carter series more.
Asimov is woefully overrated. There, I said it.
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So no robots until the last book, the ones that are there are indistinguishable from humans (who apparently have psychic and telekinetic powers because reasons) and all the main characters are arrogant Marty Stus. I think they’re at most half a dozen female characters ranging from battle axe through demure hausfrau to pliant sex object. Painful to read frankly.
Maybe the robot books are better, but that would hardly be an achievement. The TV show bears little resemblance to the first book but apart from Reece Shearsmith and that atrocious accent of his it’s a bloody good thing.
( , Thu 10 Nov 2022, 21:19, Reply)

His robot short stories are pretty good (as long as you accept that he just doesn't understand women).
I'd avoid his guide to bottom pinching, etc.
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The title sequence is a sight to behold in 4K
youtu.be/VbP3VHRbl5E
I suggest you pirate the first couple of episodes if Apple don’t do a free trial. What they’ve done with the Emperor is quite interesting, as is the original robot character.
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Just to reiterate Woodkovsky's remarks, combine all the radioactive material ever produced by humans and compare its radioactivity to a single solar flare or CME event. The sun laughs in the face of our radioactive prowess. The ionising radiation coming from the galaxy in general laughs squarely in the face of the sun. The ionising radiation from the universe laughs in the face of the galaxy.
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I'm not concerned about contaminating space. I was pointing out that radioactive waste within the lifespan of earth could be one of the signs that humans once lived here
That, and the bones of the royals
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which is why I said that we have left stuff on the moon. Hard evidence that will last a long time.
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and lo it was a banger, yea and they did bounce around
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Then laments about how hard it's been for her dealing with all the notoriety. Poor lamb.
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WTF
Quackenbush?
Why change that name?
Ridiculed online? Good.
Spat on? Good.
Death threats? Understandable.
"This will follow me for the rest of my life." YOU TRIED TO KILL A HOMELESS MAN.
It sounds like it would be a good thing for her 4 kids if she spent the next 25 years in prison.
She hopes to become a lawyer one day? Right.
PORSCHE SUV??? How does an 'aspiring Nashville singer' drive a fucking Porsche?
""It inspired me to help people who have been in my shoes." Fellow attempted murderers of homeless people? Fuck you.
RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT??????????
"She was initially indicted on charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon." Well obviously. Reckless endangerment??
Fuck American law. Fuck rich people.
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How is it that our polls close at 10pm and most results are out by 3am but they still aren’t finished two bloody days later? Yes they have five times the population but that just means they can have five times as many people counting.
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She was probably just practicing for the class/race war they've been gagging to start.
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You can find them on Auto Trader for less than £10k
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Anyone got any links to similar artists I might not know of?
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and other creatures uncovered during investigations of two new marine parks located 2,500 km off Australia's western coast
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Not too spicy, not too clean. Just the sort of insult you could call a sibling with your mother in earshot.
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