we could divert natural gas from other uses and have plenty for making ammonia. We also have other ways of producing hydrogen

We can’t do any of those in a scale large enough to replace the destruction and have it online for the next planting season on the North Hemisphere. Or the next one on the South Hemisphere either, btw. Or the following ones for each.

Is he pushing the scale?

I can imagine the girl asked specifically for that one costume, instead of the more traditional one.

I can also imagine the parents managing to get both.

Slack is great when you need to make something completely out of the ordinary. It’s right there just one step removed from a system from scratch without GNU.

That said, embedded computers nowadays run full Debian. So I dunno what use it still has.

Yeah, in a serious country, it’s easy to identify the criminal and send them to jail. So this tends to happen in short and localized bursts where people don’t steal a lot.

But it does exist.

It doesn’t matter what time you think it’s the right one, the black hole will get it anyway.

Wow. So I went looking if people actually knew when our codon system appeared.

Turns out that there are 26 slightly different systems on Earth right now, and there are good reasons to expect random alien life to have a system that looks like ours, but is different enough to not be compatible.

It’s extremely unlikely that their DNA has the same translation semantics into proteins.

Half a dozen of them have real cost/benefits trade-offs that make preaching for a single one harmful. The other thousand are just completely useless waste of time not worth mentioning.

I’m deeply sorry. If it’s any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.

Or at least everybody that didn’t see the light and adopt The Penguin… But let’s leave religion to another time.

You use it to write programs.

It is. But I doubt they are used by 3 combined people.

The Debian project needs to keep the machines for compiling and testing. And there’s probably no other machine of those architectures available for the enthusiasts to actually use.

That’s what a chemist looks like nowadays. Including the physics undergrad course.

You can push electrons into a capacitor if you don’t connect the other side. A few of them, but more than zero.

There are electrostatic generators that work by pushing electrons on one side and pulling from the other of some insulator that moves between those two. But you can’t sustain a steady state of only one of those actions.

Yes, and maybe we should ban chihuahuas too. But pitbulls chew random people in public spaces all the damn time.

The danger is not they biting you.

they smell bad IRL

They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.

You don’t have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?

Building a train is a lot of work. But if the last guy is willing to loan it, it would be great.

I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.