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  1. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

    Yes, the first Tektronix CRT display was 1968, four years later.
  2. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares about History

    700 Year-Old Ship Found Beneath Estonia's Capital
  3. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares about TV and Film

    This article discusses future effects, though nothing specific has been announced that I am aware of. Eternals isn't the first time a Celestial appeared in the MCU, and likely not the last. The end credits seems to set up a sequel of some kind.
  4. danielravennest

    Cuteness Galore

    The cat is thinking "Smells like a fishy. Can I eats it?"
  5. danielravennest

    The Russia-Ukraine War has begun

    Not in the tweet is the bank official was a Ukrainian national, who had worked for Gazprom since the USSR days, but still has relatives in Ukraine.
  6. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

    This one's for Argent: “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid The Width Of 2,000 Ferrets To Whizz Past Earth Tomorrow
  7. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares about TV and Film

    The next step will be consolidation. Either all the streaming services will lease out their content to one place, or they will start buying each other up. Warner's merger with Discovery points to the latter solution. It will settle down when we are down to 2 or 3 mega-services, at which point...
  8. danielravennest

    #BYEDON 2020 - The End Better Fucking Be Near

    He's not. The fines will accumulate daily until he complies, and at some point they will attach his property to pay it. He still has buildings in New York City.
  9. danielravennest

    The Russia-Ukraine War has begun

    I don't expect Ukraine to be admitted to the EU any time soon. Rather, the EU saying they are on a path towards EU membership is another pressure point against Russia in the current crisis. I compare it to EU countries saying they are on a path to eliminate fossil fuel import from Russia...
  10. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares about TV and Film

    There was a news story today that use of BitTorrent is up. This is the direct result of fragmentation of streaming. You used to be able to watch most stuff by subscribing to Netflix. Not any more. Now there are a dozen streaming services. People don't want to subscribe to all those...
  11. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares: the Non-Fungible Thread

    Someone did an analysis of Bitcoin holdings by address some years back. It basically had the same distribution as wealth across the world. A few addresses held a large percentage of all bitcoins. So it didn't do anything to "decentralize".
  12. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares: PRS

    Musk may not have ridden a subway in his life, and if he has, he probably didn't like it.
  13. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares: the Non-Fungible Thread

    This is also why we have reversibility built into the banking and legal system. Mistakes and fraud happen, so there are ways to undo them, or at least try to, and/or punish the fraudsters.
  14. danielravennest

    Covid-19 vaccine thread

    Think of it as evolution in action: one less idiot.
  15. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares: PRS

    Latest numbers are 56 to 44 Macron leading
  16. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

    Regolith is various size rock particles separated by vacuum. It is still an excellent insulator. You can still lose a lot of heat to space as long as you keep the sun off your radiators. The Space Station has some along the truss that do that.
  17. danielravennest

    They just get worse and worse

    They could start a series of campaign ads depicting the governor as evil characters from their movies. They own the intellectual property, and political speech is protected.
  18. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

    The *sun* changes in apparent size by 17% due to Mars' orbit being elliptical, but that's not enough for a total eclipse. Phobos' orbit is only 1.5% eccentric, so its size barely changes. However, Phobos's orbit is only 2.76 times the radius of Mars itself. So if you are far from the equator...
  19. danielravennest

    Nobody Cares about TV and Film

    He's been in a few other films between the "mainly Thor" ones, and they quickly dumped his girlfriend until now. Notice at the end how Mjolnir is cracked? When last we saw his original timeline hammer, it was lying cracked on the ground after Hela broke it. So my plot theory is Nick Fury, who...