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If I'm #childfree, am I part of the problem or the solution? Discuss ;)
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The article and release are interesting unto themselves. However, as this is c/Futurism, let's discuss what happens in the future. How do you folks think this ideological battleground plays out in 5, 50, or 500 years?
Alt text: An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious. Hit me with your ridiculous futurism shower thoughts.
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tl;dr: maybe. Experimental uncertainty still exists, and the error bars of the experiment still overlap with the error bars allowed by the Standard Model. Reproducibility in another facility also still required.
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tl;dr; pass out at 15s, brain death in 4m. More interestingly though, what developments in technology do you think may happen to boost this number should we become a spacefaring civilization?
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The chargers must be placed every 60km (37mi) and allow ad-hoc payment by card or contactless device without subscriptions.
Can you imagine dishes that are only possible in low or zero gravity? Like, your souffles on Mars might never collapse!
As the title says, what are all of the different futurisms, or like imaginings of the future? So far in my sphere, i know of a few: solarpunk, cyberpunk, retrofuturism, and transhumanism. - solarpunk: green new **decolonialized** future where we use technology, natural systems, and cultual wisdom to live sustainably and in harmony with the Earth and others - cyberpunk: dystopia where technology is capable of many things, but is used in all the wrong ways. Megacorps control everything, and tech is ubiquitous - transhumanism: future where humans can overcome their linitations through technology, and we also delve into deeper questions of how technology and its use affects people - retrofuturism (i'm probably thinking more of atompunk, help me here???): Star Trek-esque, optimistic, 1900s view of the future with the typical flying cars, space hotels, and luxury comforts in a utopic setting Can you guys think of any others? And if i'm wrong, please do correct me
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1708144 > On March 5, 1919, cartoonist W.K. Haselden published a comic in the British newspaper The Mirror, illustrating what the world would be like if telephones were portable.
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There's going to be this interesting inflection point where solar will be cheaper than the wiring in the grid. That will come with all sorts of societal side effects. In particular, it further increases the gap between the rich (those with land for panels) and the poor (those that need to buy from the grid).
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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/science/t/205362 > A new study at King's College, Cambridge reveals the striking benefits of letting lawns go wild. But can others be persuaded to break with a 300-year old social norm?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1578660 > Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint::According to one professor, we may be able to stop climate change if we used a new super white paint to cover the entire United States
Soft paywall. Wright's Law (more generally) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects > Frith’s group puts the battery cost decline at 18% per production doubling at the pack level. As an example, from 2010 to 2015, lithium-ion battery capacity doubled seven times, from 0.48 gigawatt-hours to 62 GWh. The average price of batteries at the pack level plunged from $1,194 per kilowatt hour to $384. Strictly speaking, the 18% rule should have taken prices down to about $261 ($384 is about what Wright’s Law calls for with six doublings). But it was still a roughly two-thirds plummet. > From 2015 to 2020, battery capacity grew 2.7 times and the price again plunged by two-thirds, to an average of $137/kWh. That overshot the 18% rule, by which the price should have dropped only to about $213/kWh. But if you had strictly tracked the 18% rule from 2010 to 2020, the price ended up right around where it should have been. > Now, BNEF is using the rule to project what happens next. Following Wright, battery prices should drop to $84 per kWh in 2025, well below the holy grail milestone of $100/kWh. In 2030, they should be an astonishing $58/kWh, and $45 in 2035. The price movements in the 2030s seem dramatic, but they are less so than the prior two decades, namely because it will be harder and harder to double total capacity, Frith said. Assuming no breakthrough in battery materials, there's still a somewhat predictable price drop. What are the side effects that you see?
I posit that even the utopian futures will require something like it to preserve the utopias. Defensive Democracy will eventually see it as a necessary evil. The questions become: when? where first and where last? etc. Discuss :)
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/323511 > *But that-* > > ***ONCE AND FOR ALL!***
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tl;dr: > Although on average the corrections failed to accomplish their objectives, they worked better when the issue in the correction was emotionally more positive than the misinformation, the correction matched the ideology of the recipients, the issue was not politically polarized, and the correction provided abundant details as to why the earlier claims were false.
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Is this one of those things we will look back at from the future and say: "I can't believe that we did that?" like leaded fuel?
Some veracity checking: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/
Mark R. Sullivan, San Francisco, president and director of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., said in an address Thusday night: "Just what form the future telephone will take is, of course, pure speculation. Here is my prophecy: "In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, perhaps as we carry a watch today. It probably will require no dial or equivalent, and I think the users will be able to see each other, if they want, as they talk. 'Who knows but what it may actually translate from one language to another?"