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They used sensors to detect particle energy, which is what temperature measures, when they impacted. There are so very few particles out there that no significant heat transfer actually took place, despite the particles themselves having huge amounts of energy.

They both went directly through it. It envelopes the entire solar system as far as we know.

If you play on steam, and want to try a very easy-to-load set of mods that completely reworks the whole game, check out the progression mod pack. (Link is for the 1.5 version since you don’t have odyssey, there’s a 1.6 version as well and I think there’s a link for it on that page)

It’s around 1,000 mods, many of which are compatibility/patch mods, the authors of them worked closely together for compatibility, and they have a community-driven mod sorting tool to reduce errors. You can single-click to add all and follow the directions to have them properly sort for best experience.

I use around half of the mods on that list, very much recommend. You don’t have to have all of them enabled if there’s content you don’t like or whatever.

I do mostly sandboxy base building, rather than accomplishing main objectives, so I frequently have hordes of kids running around my base (highest pawn count ever was 86, I just sort of let people do their own thing and accommodate them). The first bit is kinda annoying, but growth vats for newborns are great if you can’t spare people for feeding and play time :)

I considered odyssey, but then I realized it would break all my mods, because they aren’t through steam, and I have multiple weeks spent getting those appx 750 mods working properly. Not worth it when a lot of the mods I like most have been shelved with the major changes. I’d need an entirely new setup.

Maybe someday though!

That’s exactly what I was wondering. Sorry to hear, but thanks for sharing!

I assume there’s context missing since it says “replying to”

So I assume they meant something like “my dad only told me xyz” or like “wow that’s nuts, my dad just said xyz, not all that” or something roughly along those lines.

Well shit now I want to know if quantum computers have operating systems…

And it looks like as of earlier this year the answer to that… is yes. Special ones. Well, special one so far.

Quantum internet seems like a really bad idea, though, if the regular internet is any indication…

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-first-operating-system-for-quantum-computers-unveiled-it-can-be-used-to-manage-a-future-quantum-internet

Oh, here I thought they actually made it! That didn’t happen? :p

Fun fact: now that the probes are in interstellar space, they are finding that the universe is full of ……stuff.

For example, voyager 2, back around May, hit a weird pocket of, they think, plasma. Possibly built up on the edge of the heliosphere like a ship displaces water, or possibly a huge cloud. It changed the course of the probe. So that’s fun and alarming!

https://blog.sciandnature.com/2025/05/voyager-2-just-turned-back-and-confirms.html?m=1

Also when they crossed the heliopause (the “boundary” between the magnetic sphere our solar system is in, and interstellar space), they hit a termination shock multiple times each, meaning the heliosphere probably expands and contracts. Neat! Unfortunately we only have two data points so no idea if it’s the same everywhere. And the heliopause, it turns out, is thousands of degrees (30,000-50,000 kelvin), but there are so few particles out there, despite the solar wind pushing stuff away from the sun, that only the sensors picked up the high particle energy, no significant heat transfer happened. Probably why they haven’t suffered failures from ablation, there’s just not much out there.

Edit to add:

Apparently a faint signal was detected from near where voyager 1 is now, earlier this month, and it was a weird planned transmission TO voyager, like a ping! Holy shit that’s neat!

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/voyager-1-receives-ghostly-signal-nasa/14167/

And another edit for funsies because I found an article from 1993 about the first evidence of the heliopause 15 years after launch, and I think that’s just swell.

Thanks, that’s helpful :)

It’s kinda beautiful to watch.

I hope it matters. Probably won’t, but maybe. Stranger things have happened…

It isn’t .world. I’m on piefed.social I show your first message with removed and a couple comments down I see the actual word, so it’s something on .ml

Honestly, about time.

The scaled-up child/scaled-down man dummy that’s been used for ages is not a good representation of female anatomy.

Hope it goes into use.

Jobs would be result-driven whenever possible. Those that need butts-in-seats (like contact-driven support) would provide an option for rotating duties so nobody just sits all day every day pretending to be busy. Specialist jobs like nursing and stuff where you need minimum staffing levels would get 3 months per year of discretionary time to use when (if possible) and how they like. Bullshit jobs wouldn’t exist, but UBI and universal healthcare would. Middle management would not exist. C-suites would be paid at the same rate as a mid-tier worker to do their “totally indispensable” job, because pay would be reconfigured to actually reflect effort and skill. Stock market wouldn’t exist, so shareholders wouldn’t exist, and companies would be focused on worker retention via competition again.

More casual dining places would have pod options, like were big during lockdowns, just to be away from the noise and distraction of public spaces. More maker spaces would open and be free or very inexpensive. More third spaces would open, where spending money wasn’t the goal.

School would fundamentally change from being something you do in a sterile building with boring walls and climate control, into classes held outside, held while on walks, or with practical application front and center in the curriculum. Classes would be smaller and more focused on how to think than what to think, probably via discussion. People who want to contribute a lot wouldn’t be punished for engaging, but maybe those students would be better off in a class together, so they can have wildly active tangential discussions and let shyer kids speak up to peers better suited for them.

Doctors send you a calendar invite for appointments, in which you look through what’s available and pick the time you want, while actually having the time to sort through your own responsibilities and make the best match. Most healthcare that doesn’t involve being poked, prodded, examined, etc. would be telehealth/secure message, at no additional cost. Prescription renewals are automatically sent to your doctor to contact you about, when needed, or are otherwise just reordered. Most medications that you’ll be taking forever have a rolling prescription, your doctor just checks in with you yearly or whatever to make sure it’s still working for you. All prescriptions are available through the mail, and are sent that way unless requested for pickup, at no cost.

Public transit is phenomenal, everywhere. All those old railway stations every single town already had get brought back and cars die out other than for rural living. All public transit is no cost, with no tracking card to lose.

And finally, the real winner: All items have a tiny loop so you can put them on a lanyard of some sort if you want so you don’t lose them all the time.

Can someone ELI5?

I read it and… best I’ve got is it might be related to blockchain, maybe?

By 1927 AT&T had created its earliest electromechanical television-videophone called the ikonophone (from Greek: “image-sound”),[22] which operated at 18 frames per second and occupied half a room full of equipment cabinets.[23][24] An early U.S. test in 1927 had their then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover address an audience in New York City from Washington, D.C.; although the audio portion was two-way, the video portion was one-way with only those in New York being able to see Hoover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony

It’s not super surprising that video phones were predicted in the 50s, considering they are almost as old as phones themselves, conceptually, and only lag a bit behind as actual technology.

Additionally the first cellphones were available just before the 50s, so that’s not a huge stretch either.

In 1949, AT&T commercialized Mobile Telephone Service. From its start in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1946, AT&T introduced Mobile Telephone Service to one hundred towns and highway corridors by 1948. Mobile Telephone Service was a rarity with only 5,000 customers placing about 30,000 calls each week. Calls were set up manually by an operator and the user had to depress a button on the handset to speak and release the button to listen. The call subscriber equipment weighed about 80 pounds (36 kg)[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

I wonder how many people that actually works on…

My neighbor’s house has really old compressed panel siding, and the bats just love living under it. Dozens and dozens and dozens of them. They probably do the same under my garage siding and I just haven’t noticed.

As a result, I occasionally have bats find their way in. Probably 6 times in 13 years. First couple times it was really alarming, right up there with cluster flies and equally harmless.

I either shoo them out an open door, or catch them in a small box, and release them by taking the box outside and opening it, then leaving. They do fly around to get away from me, but they don’t really come close to touching me unless I’m flailing around or whatever. It’s wild seeing them roost on a door frame or something inside, upside down, and have them just sort of let me catch them because they don’t want to be there but can’t get out.

An old glass-bodied air fryer convection oven, that still works, for $5.

It’s loud as shit, and probably awful with electric use, but I already have an air fryer for food/regular use. This one is for the garage to cook or dry things I wouldn’t want in the house or in my food air fryer specifically. Like when I bake-sterilize eggshells for 2 hours as a calcium supplement for my chickens. Smells awful, so do it outside. Or when I want to dry hot peppers quickly but don’t want my house to be a chemical war zone.

I do refute that “fact”, though.

I personally would rather be an amputee on the side of the road with no shelter than be kept prisoner in my own body with the use of drugs and restraints. That’s literally my worst nightmare. And I’m not “severely mentally ill”.

You don’t know what reasons she has for doing what she does, but what IS completely, abundantly, crystal clear, is that she herself considers the position she is presently in to be better than whatever she would potentially deal with under care. And you don’t know why she came to this conclusion. Maybe she was institutionalized when she was young and was abused or whatever and has ptsd about it. Maybe she knows someone else who was.

Or yeah, maybe she’s so mentally ill that it’s forcing her to deny care. I strongly doubt it, but maybe. And we’ll never know unless we fix everything else first. So. Kinda moot point, isn’t it?

looks like 2000-2001

It’s… compelling in a really bad B-movie sort of way. Like the idea is great, and some of the scene design and concept is really cool, but it’s genuinely hard to watch in a lot of places between the acting (Cleo herself has a screaming habit, at least early on - I don’t recall if she grew out of it, and is dumb as shit imo) and that it’s clearly meant to be a sex-appeal-hook. Basically fishing for Xena fan crossover, but done so poorly it basically flopped.

Fun to watch, but don’t expect too much :)