probably an observation already made by others but the "how hard could it be to replicate, just follow the instructions in the paper" crowd for the floating rock probably don't cook many meals for themselves eh

Book I'm reading talks about the deep biosphere, life existing kilometers beneath the bottom of the ocean on Earth. Reassuring, really. Even if we manage to kill every living thing on the surface and in the oceans, there is a reservoir of biological life that will recolonize & re-establish biodiversity on Earth in a few hundred million years - an eyeblink. Maybe even develop intelligence. This can happen perhaps twice more before the sun renders the planet uninhabitable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_biosphere

maybe it's my latent dadhood speaking but I do get a kick out of those boomer-humor bumper stickers that are like "born to fish, forced to work"

Would have been interesting working in engineering in like the 60s where I assume everyone you worked with knew 10 different ways to solve a PDE and used that knowledge regularly

nostr:npub1zgkh8n0m7yq33n573xr8mm0danhl9ekxue3e5njh9wf4pzajwc3ql5x8cn always good to have a USB-C breakout board and UART dongle with some bread cables to connect them

barbie is confirmed lit and gotta admit there is a character who skewers me personally (husband who hangs out at home half-assedly learning his wife's family's language)

nostr:npub14lenmep3h3l8c3e2phayuet8mpuncs9td834qlxejha08gj9mzkqyugfws I’ve never heard population control phrased in terms of being for the animal’s own good. For things like deer these population booms are also driven by us removing their primary predator (wolves) for our own comfort. We also value individual human lives in addition to collective human lives, while (rightly or wrongly) individual deer lives are not valued, despite their species’ existence itself being valued.