djchump wrote:Near-Earth asteroid mining is where the big money is. Dunno how much mineral wealth there is on Mars, but it’s at the bottom of a gravity well so getting it back to Earth is not viable.
b0r1s wrote:I want to start the Belter population. I’ll be a willing Guinea pig.
- https://gizmodo.com/archivists-want-to-make-sci-hub-un-censorable-1846898276While Sci-Hub’s site is still on the web, the r/DataHoarder post notes that it’s essentially defunct—it hasn’t uploaded any new papers since December of last year. Meanwhile, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan reported last week that Apple had given the FBI access to her account data.
called for anyone with hard drive space and a VPN to defend ‘free science’ by downloading and seeding 850 torrents containing Sci-Hub’s 77 TB library. The ultimate goal of these activists is to then use these torrents, containing 85 million scientific articles, to make a fully decentralized and uncensorable iteration of Sci-Hub.
cockbeard wrote:I fundamentally disagree with scientific papers being behind a paywall, so could someone break this down for me. I'm struggling to understand the mechanics. How 0.995c is slower than the site of light, yet 0.12-0.34c is greater than it??
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/s60
Yossarian wrote:I’m fully behind anything that may remove Elon Musk from the planet for good.
A microscopic animal has been revived after slumbering in the Arctic permafrost for 24,000 years.
Bdelloid rotifers typically live in watery environments and have an incredible ability to survive. Russian scientists found the creatures in a core of frozen soil extracted from the Siberian permafrost using a drilling rig.
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