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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:54AM (#50243758)
Adobe's applications (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc.) have been "cloned" using AI coding tools. There are near feature-complete freeware versions of Adobe software. OP is saying that traditional Adobe customers have freeware alternatives and thus Adobe's revenues will decline rather than increase due to AI. Also, AI tools can often generate that movie or edit that photo via a prompt, rather that some .exe.
NASA did not use the SR-71 for the purposes you stated.

NASA's SR-71 was used for high altitude and high speed science projects.

Discovered him in Earth 2. 'Ello, poppet.
Re:Atomic Clocks on Friday August 07, 2026 @09:20AM (#49209989)
You are off by a factor of the speed of light.

The clocks would be off by less than a quarter second over a million years.

Re:SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:05PM (#48244192)
The tiles ablate. The shuttle returned from every mission with missing tiles.
Re:Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:58AM (#47780028)
Yep. Ultralight hikers are industrious and good maintainers. They take pride in lightweight bags and making them or acquiring them. Those hikers will deal with a defect on the trail or after they get to port and expect to do so with their pack.

Your average backpack consumer is a different breed. Cosmetic designs, logos, colors, and generic pockets are key marketing traits of consumer backpacks and small rips or tears are seen as reasons to replace the backpack.

We landed on the Moon. Frame-by-frame analysis of the dust coming off the Lunar Rover at the speed and trajectory shown on video from the Moon proves the Rover was in 1/6th the gravity of Earth [1]. There was no way for that 1/6th gravity to be faked on Earth in 1971. Incidentally, probes recently sent to the Moon show where the Lunar Rover made paths in the dusty surface of the Moon, and those paths align with the original video from the early 1970s.

Flat Earth only has a handful of anecdotal short-range observations of some flat areas of Earth taken from a perspective near ground level. Relative to the size of the Earth, those short-distance observations are dominated by the margins of error in the observation. All of those sight lines are accounted for in LIDAR scans of the Earth as well as the WGS84 model.

For less than $1,000 you can send a high-altitude balloon up to see the slight curvature of the Earth. For a few thousand dollars, you can circumnavigate the Earth in an airplane along a common latitude. For tens of thousands of dollars you can go to Antarctica and see the 24-hour Sun from November to January. Or you could just have all your friends from around the globe point to the Sun and measure that angle. With basic trigonometry, you can see the Sun is about 92 million miles away.

[1] Hsu & Horányi (2012), University of Colorado Boulder - "Ballistic motion of dust particles in the Lunar Roving Vehicle dust trails," American Journal of Physics: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012AmJPh..80..452H/abstra...

Re:DARPA's new X-76 on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:05PM (#47315500)
It will need blades to VTOL.
The original meter (1790s France) was defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian.
OP isn't saying peanuts are a poor source of nutrition. OP is saying a few peanuts are calorically dense and it is easy to consume hundreds of calories through seemingly inconsequential amounts of snacks and drinks.
Re:AI's Dial-Up Era on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @09:45AM (#45811590)
In these commercials, it wasn't the technology itself but the ease of access and visualized integration of these technologies into the commoners' everyday lives that was the new idea.
Multiple cable cutters are installed on every military helicopter
Re:Brian Wilson has died on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @02:07PM (#44250210)
Brian Wilson was an industrious and creative engineer that shipped products which touched generations.
Re:The True Size Of on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @08:33AM (#43844293)
Algeria is about 23.4% the size of Europe.
"Our vehicle, called a seaglider, is an all-electric, wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates within a wingspan of the water's surface and couples the speed of an airplane with the operating cost of a boat."
Re:BlenderGPT on Thursday December 12, 2024 @10:47AM (#42400122)
It generates a mobius strip that looks like a pill.
Re:How Olympics Officials Try to Catch "Motor Doping" on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @05:23PM (#41051067)
And it looks like Lance was about 6.97 W/kg in 2004: https://sportsscientists.com/2009/07/tour-de-france-2009-pow...
Re:How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters? on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:57PM (#41037364)
BTW: if you are looking for something to latch onto with the Olympics starting this week, the USA vs Jamaica rivalry in the short distance trace events is a great David vs. Goliath story. The two countries have been battling back and forth with each other for the top spots for the last decade or longer. The runners have flamboyant personalities and these are some of the fastest sprinters we have ever seen; both men and women. There is a documentary on Netflix called 'Sprint' that sets the stage for this Olympics.
Re:One Million Checkboxes on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:49PM (#40804450)
Plot twist, you are competing against several dozen pigeons in Central Park.
Re:UFO civilization could be on Earth: Harvard researchers on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:50AM (#40670410)
> All four CTHs are far-fetched on their face; we entertain them here because some aspects of UAP are strange enough that they seem to call for unconventional explanations.
Re:Why scientists say we need to send clocks to the moon on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:07PM (#40526084)
Gravity decreases with distance from the Earth’s center. The lower the gravitational potential (the closer the clock is to the source of gravitation), the slower time passes, speeding up as the gravitational potential increases (the clock moving away from the source of gravitation).
Re:The Amazon has a 286% increase in fires in February on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:27AM (#39538358)
Title was 'The Amazon has a 286% increase in fires in February'
Re:Infinite Craft on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:53AM (#39302586)
Update - author has added two new features:

1) progress is saved locally so you can reload browser (helpful on iOS) 2) search bar added to discovered items list

Re:Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:52AM (#39105936)
In the late 1980's I had this VCR that would allow me to tune into over the air TV channels in the eastern US.

Being an elementary aged student poking around, I realized I could use the tuner to listen in to telephone calls somehow. Granted, I lived on a farm and there were probably only two dozen houses within a mile radius of our home; the nearest being a quarter mile away. I had a small rabbit ear antenna on the back of my CRT TV that could have been plugged into the VCR.

I don't recall the actual hardware I had.

I never figured out if I was listening to cordless phones (seems they would not be powerful enough to reach me), cell phone signals (there were few cell phones in my poor rural community I assume but I guess there could have been travelers on a nearby highway), or CB radio signals from truckers on the highway (these seemed like mundane person to person conversations; not trucker conversations). Perhaps it could have been long distance HAM operators though they didn't seem to use any HAM protocols while speaking.

Re:Losing my son on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:11AM (#39041849)
Agree that this is very heavy. I appreciate OP's vulnerability. I've got little ones and I need to read this; I just can't right now. I'll be glad do donate to OP if that's what we're doing.
Re:Writing Books Remains a Tough Way to Make a Living (2022) on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:21AM (#38853227)
OP should just donate $5 to his favorite writers.
And yet it never uses the word "polynomial".

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