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If I got big enough that Earth could fit in the palm on my hand, could I destroy it by squeezing it very hard?
  • Using regular physics a human scaled up that much they would immediately start to collapse into a pulpy sphere of mostly water, which would further collapse into a star. If you ignored the giant human's body pull on itself, then you'd have to look at the Earth pull on the flesh of the giant, trying to put what amounts to a giant hand shaped water balloon inside a planets roshe limit probably won't end well. If we ignore that, then the Earth would be deep inside your hand's gravitational field, so you probably wouldn't need to squeeze, just having your giant hand near the Earth would cause it to rip itself apart. If we ignore all the gravity based physics then the question becomes "How would muscles larger than planets actually work?".

    I guess what I'm trying to say here is that to answer your question is "We have to ignore so much physics to make your question even possible that it's kinda meaningless." It's like asking "If ducks were made of cheese how fast could they fly?"

  • Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today'
  • I'm guessing Trump's plan to end the war is "Back Russia and help Putin crush Ukraine." Because (much like Trump's own sycophants) he doesn't realize that he'll the first under the bus when his master no longer needs him.

  • The aliens need our gold! The proof? 3.
  • Okay... why was gold so "vital to [the Anunnaki's] survival"? Did they eat it? Tooth fillings? Cell phones? Gold plated audio jacks?

  • The aliens need our gold! The proof? 3.
  • Also with differentiated asteroids like Vesta, Ceres (and maybe Psyche) they're entirely cold. So rather than scrabbling around for the flecks of gold on the surface like on Earth, you can just tunnel down into the core and mine all the heavy metals that sunk during the planetoid's molten era.

  • Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’
  • may help establish life on the red plane

    We should... ya know, make sure there is no life there first. Even a small planet is a big place, and we've looked in very few places. Also even if there is no life there's still a lot Mars could tell us about what a pre-biotic Earth was like.

    I just think we need to examine the only other terrestrial planet in the system that won't light you on fire fairly thoroughly before trying to terraform it into a Wish-dot-com version of Earth.

  • How to Grow Potatoes And Tomatoes On The Same Plant
  • Yields from this sort of grafting will almost always be lower than a tomato plant and a potato plant alone. A plant has a kinda "energy budget" for growth; It uses this much energy for vegetative growth, that much for roots, some more for fruit, etc. A tomato/potato graft is trying to "spend" large amounts of energy both growing large tomato fruits and growing tubers underground, so you end up with mediocre yields of both.

    Even the tiny fruits a potato grows represent a small energy loss. Which (IMO) is why so many popular potato breeds don't produce true seed, you get just a little bit more potato that way.

    Interestingly sometimes in potato breeding the opposite of this graft is used, a potato top on tomato roots. That way the potato greenery is flush with nutrients and can set a much heavier crop of fruits, allowing breeders to collect more seeds from their potential cross.

  • Not even one mainstream scientist?
  • We've got sunflowers all over with similar DNA doesn't mean they somehow blew over. Cranberries of Europe And USA have similar DNA but that doesn't mean they blew over here.

    Someone should explain how birds work to this guy.

  • 4202 - Wheels crush small rock! Reveals light green crystals (de-Bayered R-MastCam)
  • It's Kryptonite. We know what happened to Superman in this dimension now.

  • Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice
  • Reddit has a warning for AI companies and other scrapers: play by our rules pay us for the content our users generated or get blocked

    Fixed.

  • Capcom and GOG join forces to release the original Resident Evil™ trilogy!
  • It's so nice to see a developer doing this rather then going the "Here's a updated version of the game! Also we're removing access the originals so it's the only version available now." route.

  • We are a failed species
  • The terrible thing about these isn't the fake orange juice combined with rot gut vodka, it's that (at least in my area) they want twelve freaking dollars for this shit. That's three bucks a can!

    You could literally buy an entire jug of not-orange juice as well as a 750 ml bottle of vodka for less.

  • where are you gardening?
  • High altitude northern California. It's snow and ice during the winter, high and dry desert during the summer and alternates during the spring and fall. This May it went from 80 degree weather to freezing at night in the space of two days and then back again in the same span. Also, my yard is subsoil fill, I've been gardening for years and my garden bed soil is only just getting to marginal.

  • TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue
  • There's been research that language shapes how we perceive the world around us. Because there was no word for "blue" there was no concept of blue, the color still existed but their brains just lumped it into "green". Sight works by the visual centers brain taking data from the eyes, throwing most of it out, then building a model which is what the rest of the brain gets to actually "see". That's why optical illusions work.

    A commonly cited source for language shaping our perception of color is Jules Davidoff's studies on the Himba tribe. The Himba have no word for blue, and they struggled to pick out the blue square from this color wheel. However, they do have many distinctions for shades of green so when given this color wheel they could easily pick out the square that's a different shade of green (and yes I opened it in MSpaint to check and one of the green squares is a different shade.)

  • The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
  • Bunch of uneducated goons.

    Oh, they know they're lying, they just want to lie so much they bury the truth re-write the past (which is kinda ironic if you think about it, given that whole eight commandment). It's kinda the same way the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" is embedded into American mythology despite being a after-the-fact whitewashing of history.

  • 80% of Americans say grocery costs have notably increased since the pandemic started, survey finds
  • I view "reporting on the obvious" as being in the same vein as "a scientific report proving the obvious." Sure we all know it's true, but now there's actually documentation you can point too.

  • Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it
  • Ha, you think they'll be that generous? They'll probably charge her for 43 years of room and board.

  • Maker of Jeep and Dodge plans to kill chrome on cars, citing risks to those who make it
  • At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.

    Suuurree they are. Hasn't chromium getting more expensive over the past couple years? I'm guessing this sudden concern about the environment and the health of the workers will save them quite a bit of money in the long term.

    Still, credit where credit is due, at least this cost cutting measure that actually has positive benefits for once.

  • 30 years in prison for a bong with water in it. Vs what for Trump?
  • IIRC it's because they classified the bong water as the controlled substance. As such it's treated as if she were smuggling a half pound or so of meth rather then bong water that tested positive for methamphetamine.

  • Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County
  • IMHO it's the flashing lights. I really think they overload the self driving software somehow and it starts ignoring changes in driving conditions (like say an emergency vehicle parked in the road).

  • Joey Chestnut Barred From Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Due to Vegan Sponsor Beef
  • My only problems with Impossible products is they're usually quite a bit saltier than actual meat and of course that it's usually more expensive then meat products. If they fixed both of those problems I'd be okay with replacing a good percentage of my meat consumption with them.

  • So there's a new homebrew app for Streetpasses over the internet.
    gbatemp.net A new way to experience StreetPass

    NetPass: A new way to experience StreetPass Scan QR code to download! Releases: https://gitlab.com/Sorunome/3ds-streetpass/-/releases Source Code: https://gitlab.com/Sorunome/3ds-streetpass Discord: https://discord.gg/QY8wzCMHyP Introducing NetPass: In the current state of the world, the 3DS...

    A new way to experience StreetPass

    Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

    Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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    What's up with all the $99 games with a 95+% discount on Steam?

    So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

    I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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