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Comment How would this even work? (Score 3, Interesting) 28

Someone needs cancer treatment. They spend weeks training to go into space, are launched, then spend a few days undergoing treatment then come back down? Who would even pay for this? No way insurance would cover it.

Even if they use the zero-g plane, that only gives 25 seconds of zero g conditions for every minute of flight.

While this is an interesting discovery, someone needs to figure out how to make it workable.

Comment Re:Complete confusion (Score 1) 72

The idea does seem to have some downsides. By the way are you an historical fantasy author? I cannot think of many reasons for wanting to know how much blood would be required to make an iron sword.

I pulled the sword one from thin air based on reading about it elsewhere. I wasn't intentionally looking for it when I came across it. However, everything else is true. And no, not an author (yet).

Comment Complete confusion (Score 5, Informative) 72

One moment I'm looking up how to kill various weeds in my lawn, the next I'm searching for how many people I'd have to kill to extract enough iron from their blood to make a sword, followed by what disasters happened in a certain year, onto finding the name of a song I heard once in my lifetime thirty years ago, and wrapping it up by searching for stories on the Christian pedophile who was arrested.

I don't think I want to match with someone based on browser history.

Comment Don't forget Starlink (Score 4, Interesting) 109

Without prior approval, Starlink was installed on the roof of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and was (is still?) used to send untold amounts of highly sensitive government data over an insecure connection. Needless to say, the Secret Service, among others, was flabbergasted that basic security precautions were not taken to secure the link, even after DOGE was told how insecure the system is.

Another cyber policy ignored. Who knows how much sensitive data is now in the hands of the Russian assets handlers?

Comment More trees, fewer people (Score 3, Insightful) 59

If you reduce the number of people while increasing the number of trees, the amount of cooling will be even more substantial. Fewer people means less pollution and less need to cut down trees to make space for people. With more trees able to grow, as the study suggests, cooling will increase and the people will have better lives.

There's a reason places with parks, where there's large expanses of grass and trees, have happier people.

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