@kane Well, if we're saying total nonsense as if it's reality with deeply failed meta theory of how things work, which is perhaps really just my failure to understand everyone is joking, then what will be really exciting "after curing cancer" is beryllium everything.
Part of a real photo I took using a backyard telescope. Space is amazing
This is a small crop from new work I’m releasing this week! A 65-hour exposure of a supernova shockwave 😱
I’ll be sending it to email subscribers first with more info about how it was captured 👀
Photo finish! 🏁📸
On June 14, Perseverance completed a Martian “marathon” by surpassing 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) of travel. The day before, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this view of the rover and its tracks from space.
Metallurgy is hard.
In 2024, a V-22 Osprey suffered a catastrophic gearbox failure when a helical gear fractured, punching a hole in the gearbox's shroud and causing the left proprotor engine to rapidly lose power.
The Osprey needs small, light gearboxes that can survive huge loads, heat, fatigue cycles, and possible oil-system damage.
To meet this challenge, engineers picked an exotic steel alloy called X-53, created using a combination of vacuum induction melting (VIM) and vacuum arc remelting (VAR).
So why did it fail? A small impurity “measuring 0.055 inches long by 0.011 inches wide" that lead to fatigue cracking and eventual fracture.
This wasn't a new problem, either - 22 incidents of inclusion-related cracking have been recorded in the V-22's gearboxes since 2006.
The planned fix includes melting the X-53 a *third* time to further remove impurities and adding vibration sensors to better predict when cracking might happen.
So i've known for a while that octopuses have naturally short lifespans, dying shortly after reproduction, but what I just learned is that their hormone-triggered death process doesn't just make them waste away, it actually disrupts their mental functioning to the point that