I guess that’s okay, if we really got our money’s worth.

/s

Tux, FF and VLC have been dailies in my life for over a decade. Many MANY thanks to them, and to ALL those pipple.

Here’s a back-up, science paper on MOF from Nature with measured numbers. 8 liters per KG per day isn’t 1000 gallons until you get to 2 tons … but it’s about 200 liters per out of 25 KG … easily carried.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58405-9

"The effects of temperature, relative humidity, and powder bed thickness on the adsorption-desorption process are explored for achieving optimal operational parameters. We found that Zr-MOF-808 can produce up to 8.66 LH2O kg−1MOF day−1, an extraordinary finding that outperforms any previously reported values for MOF-based systems… "

Gotta go with ‘Contact’ (based on a Carl Sagan book) and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (Kubrick).

‘The Martian’ tried, good film but but made Mars look waaaaay too friendly …

I don’t recall ‘I Robot’ straying too far out of line … but not in the same league …

Proyas’ ‘Dark City’ likewise, but is more imaginative and artful …

Wow, that would save A LOT of lives

Same fella that just told the EU that the US is its child and always will be. Hmmm, how many parents take the advice of their young teenaged kids?

Just wanna chip in a big RIGHT ON! to thank Gene Roddenberry for his vision of the future !

Holding on to one’s preferred human culture and values is not being ‘left behind’ in any sense … they may in fact be ‘left ahead’.

The sooner EUrope has a firm handle on its own IT ecosystem, the sooner it can tell the US to go pound sand. Macron is spot on.

Yeah, that would be a high priority item that I’m sure was part of the talk.

" … Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism." Oh wait, the NYT is the holy of holies… never mind …

It might get better just before the next election …

"Reportedly.’

That headline may be true. Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism. By now that’s hundreds of millions of names to go through. Maybe that will help them burn through their remaining funds faster.

Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?

Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.

Not since the last years of the Roman Empire has there been such a fine example. Also an even better example of how to tear your own gang to shreds.

Have a look at ‘Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit’ here: https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-carl-sagan-baloney-detection-kit.html These ideas are ‘common sense’ to ’ people who Quantum for a living’. Immortality - right or wrong- is WAY OUTSIDE what’s within the reach of day-to-day science.

Penrose is a talented and knowledgeable guy who’s can afford to ‘think outside the box’ without making crazy claims. The guy who thought up plate tectonics was ‘rushed out of the room’ for 50 years … until people realized the value of his idea.

The main points are there in text. If you want to hear more about each point, the YT video goes into them in detail.

I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.

Parents will get the behavior they reinforce. My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER responded. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.

Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two, as they’re colored in red.

Wouldn’t doubt it if they did market to kids. TV networks did it for decades, every Saturday morning, with no FCC challenges.

PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently. Corporations exist for one purpose. Will government stop them?

“addiction in children’s brains”

I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did the corporations care? Probably not. Would they have at one time, here in the US? Yes, back when legislators were answerable to their constituents. At one time the FCC worried about the lyrics in songs on the radio. The population was more uptight about it. Then.

OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn’t need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn’t for everyone.