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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • in my case I’m pretty sure it’s because I was shipped off to daycare way early by my parents and imprinted on a Portuguese woman in a year well before it was fashionable for women to remove every visible hair on their body from the nose down 🤷

    (yes I lived in an area with a ton of people of Portuguese descent and yes the women of such descent tend to be hairy, among other clues which lead me to suspect this)


  • yes, while space is cold, the vacuum means that nearly all the heat has to be shed by radiation (meaning e.g. infrared radiation, not nookyular radiation) rather than conduction & convection. so the more you scale it up, the bigger the heat sinks needed. think giant metal fins to radiate away the heat. eventually it becomes prohibitive.

    interestingly, the 40KW NASA pilot project this proposal appears to be derived from is a Stirling engine, not a radioisotope thermal generator like on New Horizons, Cassini, etc.

    a Stirling design converts much more of the heat to electricity than an RTG, but it has moving parts.










  • Jeffrey Goldberg’s The Atlantic is the quintessential secular pseudo-intellectual shitlib rag, so I check it once in a while to keep my finger on that mayo-stream pulse; in this case I think being center-right might have informed their access here. It’s nothing that hasn’t been said elsewhere in the past 7 days or so, but I thought it was an interesting summary.

    Not sure on the depiction of Trump as upset by murdered babies on TV, but (as the article points out) this isn’t the first time that’s supposedly happened; it’s food for thought in the age-old “are people with NPD fully human or not?” debate.