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Perhaps not, if the speed you can drive a probe is increasing with technological development it might be a waste of time to send a probe that'll be overtaken by its newer sisters.

> This brings back good memories. As, I'm Dutch, the names for these knots in English are a bit challenging for me. I finally got around to doing my day skipper last year and on the course was…

Blame the restrictions on the BBC, even though they got an early start on streaming the government didn't want them to compete too much with commercial offerings which meant iPlayer was crippled …

We'll probably build back after that too, civilisations coming and going is hardly new.

Even if you wanted to put a bunch of very radioactive waste on a rocket which might not necessarily make it away from Earth, it'd be very wasteful of fuel to shoot it into the sun compared to sho…

Civilian nuclear-powered cargo ships have actually been tried in the past, a large issue was that a lot of ports refused them entry if I remember correctly.

Honestly even if that doesn't do much for most those things are great for me, I have a migraine-adjacent visual issue which gives me photophobia and lowering the colour temperature of light in ge…

I feel we're the reverse of the Americans in some ways, from what I understand their TV news is completely rabid in the same way our tabloids are but their newspapers are relatively level-headed …

I remember Jeremy Clarkson going there once and talking about this 1950s MG MGA but when he started it there was a Lada engine inside.

If I'm ever eligible for a study into it I'd definitely at least consider the idea, though it's not something I'd want to do outside of medical supervision given the mechanism of m…

The disorder’s called visual snow syndrome, it’s named after the main symptom that differentiates it from other disorders which is TV-static like visual distortion but it sometimes causes a lot of oth…

I do wonder if I’d be diagnosed with ADHD if I didn’t already have a fairly obscure neurological disorder. My visual cortex can’t filter its own noise out properly which causes a bunch of mostly migra…

Isn't pre-agricultural society supposed to have been fairly egalitarian in comparison?

On the subject of obsolete ways of making light, I really miss the aesthetic of the yellow low-pressure sodium lights we used to use outdoors in the UK that ate the colours out of everything. They wer…

Yeah for me ChatGPT is my go-to for "I know what I want to do but I don't know the exact syntax, get me an answer quickly without having to wade through endless SEO spam sites and SO questio…

I wonder if there's a general rule that the larger an organisation the more pronounced the diffusion of responsibility and the higher the likelihood of shady behaviour? It would be interesting to…

It's a shame a lot of Europe is either killing off its AM output or already has which will render this impossible, the last transmitters other than a couple of low-power enthusiast stations inclu…

Might be students, I vaguely remember freshers being challenged to call these numbers pretending to be from our rival university.

Sorry I totally missed this over the weekend. I'd definitely be up for that, I'm hoping to be living aboard next year so will have plenty of time to explore some ideas. What general area are…

I think the GP might be yanking our chains a little bit. Also you kind of have to include the UK in the list of countries that use imperial measures. We're mostly metric but the roads are in mile…

I wonder if an amateur hydrography could be accessible to people who spend a lot of time on the water? I'm a sailor and I've flirted with the idea of sending down off-the-shelf camera drones…

I went to university by the sea in a town known for its pterodactyl-like seagulls. Not only were the sculptures ineffective the real hawks they hired to scare the gulls apparently got turfed out by th…

I happened to see one of the brightest shooting stars of my life shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year and it was headed towards the nearest city. I'd be lying if there was a big part of…

A cool variation of this would be a Reddit API to ActivityPub bridge which would make it compatible with Lemmy, Kbin etc. I saw a project for this a while ago but can't remember what it's ca…

Apparently a lot of it comes from what remains of the German fleet that scuttled itself at Scapa Flow rather than be divided among the allies. Most of the ships were salvaged between the world wars bu…

As miserly as this is I’ll probably end up paying their Danegeld as long as they don’t mess with SponsorBlock too. My motivation is a straightforward ‘see as few ads as possible at as little cost as p…

Alternatively: 1. Only local maps being available. 2. Being addressed as 'number six'. 3. Being followed around by eerie white ball things. 4. Everything looks like the 1960s.