plus it can lift off all by itself. so if it wants to go on a multi-day journey, it doesn’t have to ask a passer-by to lift it up and throw it into the air to get it going.

:o yeah indeed

because people seem to think that you need to have big areas to generate meaningful amounts of energy. this proves that’s not the case.

yeah it’s really really fragile. they show it in the video, one of the panels broke because a cat stepped on it. obviously not very suited for real-world deployment.

however i do wonder why they use polycrystalline silicon and not just amorphous silicon? I mean 20% efficiency instead of 8% makes a difference but i did some rough maths and it could still work with amorphous silicon if you use the area on the drone better. But amorphous silicon has the advantage of making a very thin and flexible layer that doesn’t break easily. It’s essentially more like a flexible piece of cloth instead of a solid object. Maybe worth a consideration.

the thing is that the amount of power on that little patch of area is actually a lot; we just continue to underestimate it because it doesn’t feel like much. i mean, we stand under direct sunlight all day long and never feel like a train hits us. however, the amount of energy in the sunlight is quite a lot, we’re just very good at ignoring it.

been saying this too

Zen is basically the scientific method, without the institution around it

chat is this real?

excuse my german dialect but i gotta release some steam: des duad weh beim lesen. aua.

I’ve started thinking that it’s not so much about blackmail after all, instead it’s about connections and relationships.

Consider this: Epstein clearly had thousands of customers. I don’t have any actual number in my head, but clearly it must have been a lot and seemingly everybody knew about it. Like, if you look at how many people are related to all this, it’s impossible to think that nobody knew anything. Probably, a very large number of people knew what was going on; but nobody bothered to do anything about this. Why? Because they didn’t care. To them, it was just business as usual, everybody’s all in on this anyways, those that aren’t have no actual power, so who’s gonna do anything?

Like, even if it did get public, i’m pretty sure most of the people involved felt certain enough that nothing bad would happen anyways. Considering there were mostly no consequences till today, they’re mostly right, i’d say.

Instead, they just used the parties and connections as a networking platform, getting to know other influential people and stuff. That’s IMHO the bigger reason why mossad is involved in all of this. Not for blackmailing purposes, but to be in the center of a network of connections that gives them a lot of strategic influence in the world.

Realistically, that doesn’t happen. At least not if we consider mathematics to be the useful kind of mathematics. The stuff that helps you do statistics/finances/engineering. Because that type of mathematics is based on reality and for the mathematics to be inconsistent would mean that reality is inconsistent, and then we have much much bigger problems.

As for the higher abstract maths (which is closer to philosophy anyways) yeah such things have happened many times and led to revolutionary insights each time. An example is when we started basing everything on set theory (which in medieval times did not really exist). But that’s a philosophical question, not one that concerns daily life.

Unironically a good thing. Prostitution is one of the most abusive businesses out there, at least in the western world. Idk about japan.

You know, the thing that pisses me off about Friendica is that you can’t easily see what the site actually looks like without signing up for an account. that really sucks. who wouldn’t want a preview of what they’re getting into?

you see, the internet is tubes, and when they fill, the internet gets stuck

the internet is not a big truck.

walking is hard on knees because we walk on asphalt and concrete, which are not what our body is made for. our body is made for the soft dirt grounds of forests and fields

she also looks like the “liberal” purple haired girl they told us they hated so much.

typical right-wing mindset is pretty simple. is she hot? if yes, she gets a lot of views, no matter what her hair color is.

You’d still have to work in space, though. Probably more than on Earth, in fact.

because :D

All of the smart people on his team are in bed with Russia.

The thing is that Trump himself was apparently in bed with russia … sort of. At least i remember reading him sleeping with 14yo russian girls (via epstein). they literally did empire marriage.

Wow that’s interesting!

The book emphasizes that Russia must spread geopolitical anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.”

Wait a moment … blaming the US … that’s what a lot of people here on Lemmy do, does that mean we’re influenced by russian propaganda?

Reminds me of this:

Replace Chinese with Russian