As to 'shielding', there's plenty on Mars. It's called dirt and rock. There's a high likelihood that caves are available, for one thing. In the short term, other needs may be satisfied via shipment from Earth. The…
You're uninformed. Humans on Mars will live in radiation shielded environments, and people have already endured longer space radiation exposure than received during the trip. At least the astronaut's sleeping habitat…
Most of what you wrote is provably incorrect. Humans have survived in orbit, exposed to full-strength cosmic rays, for much longer than for the trip to Mars. Improved shielding will become practical as nuclear powered…
Possibly interestingly, I can't take you seriously for having such a superficial approach. You probably shouldn't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Searching is sometimes fruitful (sigh)... At any rate, here's a link with both natural and enhanced color: https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/sol-1516-mastcam-z-360-pa...
Does anyone know if the non-colorized version of this is available? I'd like to see this as a Mars explorer actually would...
I'm in the same category, but GPU support is definitely interesting too. The idea of offloading intensive processing to the GPU has its merits.
Good news! The El Nino that's forming is predicted to cause record snowpack in the West this winter... https://nypost.com/2026/08/16/science/super-el-nino-odds-for...
Mojo and Julia have some very fundamental differences though... Mojo is a fully ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled systems language. Julia is much more dynamic, and its AOT compilation story is still quite weak. Mojo also has…
If it's open sourced, Qualcomm won't need to worry about Metal support. If Mojo is popular enough, Apple might get involved. If not, no doubt there'll still be Apple users that want Mojo support, and are willing to work…
One is an objective measurement, the other is a completely subjective judgement. As they say, there's no accounting for taste...
I've yet to have any issues with the battery overheating, and most if not all of the braking is regenerative (no brake pad wear).
By the way, the stock Corolla GR can pull right around .95 G, just like the Model Y Performance...
This seems like a ton of hype for a marginal (if that) improvement over existing art. We've had "truly random" numbers for a long time, starting with those based on radioactive decay. Current hardware RNGs already take…
Most commenters here are focused on the Microsoft hardware, but the article mentions systems from several other manufacturers using the same hardware. Some of them, Dell and Lenovo in particular, have good Linux…
I'll have to take a look at OxCaml. I'm leery of "C-like" performance claims after Java has thoroughly failed to live up to a similar claim after thirty plus years of development... What it's actually achieved is about…
Illegal orders?
I agree that if the best we can do is something that can't be self-sustaining, Mars should wait until that changes. I disagree with KSR's main points. Perchlorates are solvable, the effects of Martian gravity are not…
According to current theory AIUI, cosmic inflation greatly influenced the CMB. It ended approximately 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang: "Cosmic inflation is believed to have occurred in an incredibly brief, rapid, and…
Any Faraday cage, bag or not, will eliminate surveillance of the phone until it comes online. Physics wins again.
Total nonsense. Just avoid Minnesota…
Buy a Tesla with FSD. No, it’s not L5 autonomy, but it’s already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better.
I hope you're right, the nuclear option is looking mighty good right now! ;-)
An "administration" doesn't add debt - Congress does. Power of the purse strings, no? I'm not sure what you mean by "this administration". Are you including DJT's first term? Regardless, here are the numbers per…
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As to 'shielding', there's plenty on Mars. It's called dirt and rock. There's a high likelihood that caves are available, for one thing. In the short term, other needs may be satisfied via shipment from Earth. The…
You're uninformed. Humans on Mars will live in radiation shielded environments, and people have already endured longer space radiation exposure than received during the trip. At least the astronaut's sleeping habitat…
Most of what you wrote is provably incorrect. Humans have survived in orbit, exposed to full-strength cosmic rays, for much longer than for the trip to Mars. Improved shielding will become practical as nuclear powered…
Possibly interestingly, I can't take you seriously for having such a superficial approach. You probably shouldn't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Searching is sometimes fruitful (sigh)... At any rate, here's a link with both natural and enhanced color: https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/sol-1516-mastcam-z-360-pa...
Does anyone know if the non-colorized version of this is available? I'd like to see this as a Mars explorer actually would...
I'm in the same category, but GPU support is definitely interesting too. The idea of offloading intensive processing to the GPU has its merits.
Good news! The El Nino that's forming is predicted to cause record snowpack in the West this winter... https://nypost.com/2026/08/16/science/super-el-nino-odds-for...
Mojo and Julia have some very fundamental differences though... Mojo is a fully ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled systems language. Julia is much more dynamic, and its AOT compilation story is still quite weak. Mojo also has…
If it's open sourced, Qualcomm won't need to worry about Metal support. If Mojo is popular enough, Apple might get involved. If not, no doubt there'll still be Apple users that want Mojo support, and are willing to work…
One is an objective measurement, the other is a completely subjective judgement. As they say, there's no accounting for taste...
I've yet to have any issues with the battery overheating, and most if not all of the braking is regenerative (no brake pad wear).
By the way, the stock Corolla GR can pull right around .95 G, just like the Model Y Performance...
This seems like a ton of hype for a marginal (if that) improvement over existing art. We've had "truly random" numbers for a long time, starting with those based on radioactive decay. Current hardware RNGs already take…
Most commenters here are focused on the Microsoft hardware, but the article mentions systems from several other manufacturers using the same hardware. Some of them, Dell and Lenovo in particular, have good Linux…
I'll have to take a look at OxCaml. I'm leery of "C-like" performance claims after Java has thoroughly failed to live up to a similar claim after thirty plus years of development... What it's actually achieved is about…
Illegal orders?
I agree that if the best we can do is something that can't be self-sustaining, Mars should wait until that changes. I disagree with KSR's main points. Perchlorates are solvable, the effects of Martian gravity are not…
According to current theory AIUI, cosmic inflation greatly influenced the CMB. It ended approximately 10^-32 seconds after the Big Bang: "Cosmic inflation is believed to have occurred in an incredibly brief, rapid, and…
Any Faraday cage, bag or not, will eliminate surveillance of the phone until it comes online. Physics wins again.
Total nonsense. Just avoid Minnesota…
Buy a Tesla with FSD. No, it’s not L5 autonomy, but it’s already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better.
I hope you're right, the nuclear option is looking mighty good right now! ;-)
An "administration" doesn't add debt - Congress does. Power of the purse strings, no? I'm not sure what you mean by "this administration". Are you including DJT's first term? Regardless, here are the numbers per…
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