Due to gaseous oxygen levels on Earth being abnormally high, we have lots of water. Watching a video about purifying elemental substances from lunar or Martian regolith, I learned that oxygen is the second-most "electronegative" element, beat by Fluorine (not including the noble elements who are non-reactive with smaller noble elements being ( Read more... )

A civilian passenger jet appears to have been shot at when at high elevation when flying from Azerbaijan to Russia then it crossed the Caspian sea to get very close to an airport in Kazakhstan. Looking at the last couple minutes of flight from the ground, the plane went up and down then at the last moment, turned sideways without changing direction ( Read more... )

I am on 5 paths to "truth" that are beginning to find parallels in the form of the concepts of entropy and exergy. These paths include the best political structures, the most peace-creating religious understanding, the real factors in evolution of known lifeforms, cosmology and sub-particle physics (how they both seem to be infinite size-wise), the ( Read more... )

A comic I just shared on X saying that the internet isn't fun anymore and giving several points of why, gave me an idea. Facebook used to have "groups" with lots of useful tools to deal with trolls but lacked methods to deal with hostile hijacking of the group. In response, Facebook just removed all those tools to make the groups feature useless. ( Read more... )

A while ago several camera trap video or wildlife photographers I followed on X left the platform and some left all platforms at the same time. Recently a new wave of such accounts leaving X or the internet completely at the same general time as an exodus to BlueSky (but apparently the wildlife crowd didn't go there, mostly just the artistic and ( Read more... )

I was looking at several energy storage technologies and realized several could be combined in some way to increase the energy density or energy form conversion efficiency. This seemed extremely obvious but nobody was doing so except extremely complex ways to boost efficiency of huge systems slightly. Today I found out about a future tech (the ( Read more... )

The more I look at the details of different welding technologies, oxidation of the surfaces to be bound together is the reason for most of the fancy tech trying to prevent such oxidation. "Flux" is one such technology to prevent oxidation. I suspect friction heating is the least-likely technology to trigger oxidation and it doesn't need a ( Read more... )

90% of Ukraine's grid equipment is unavailable and 50+% permanently (according to a Ukrainian who reports on this). The rivers are drained because the dams that still make power are using all that flow for power, no water stored. Nuclear plants are often turned off or run on low in case the grid goes down to the nuclear plant causing the core to be ( Read more... )

Theft was the reason for grifters promising protection and grifters started to claim legitimacy via nepotism. I decided a long time ago that borders are just in place for taxation purposes and the old anarchist line "taxation is theft" applies. YouTube is still horrible at choosing videos and channels to recommend where about 90% of their ( Read more... )

The original microblogging format was "webcomics"... Just a lot of images put in an order. There still isn't a common format platform for webcomics although a few comics-specific websites are out there with limited usefulness with mobile devices (instead of a normal "desktop" os where FTP file transfer or similar file access is available). I just ( Read more... )