The Skeptics Guide #1006 - Oct 19 2024 (Ad Free)
Added 2024-10-19 16:04:17 +0000 UTCInterview with Christian Hubicki; From TikTok: Fake Spacestation; News Items: AI Common Sense, Malnutrition in Africa, Latest Starship Launch, New Metasurface, Exomoon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Myopia; Science or Fiction
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Midway through the interview with Christian and amazed no one has yet mentioned the viability of teleoperated robots for hostile environments, aka Mars, battlefield, undersea, low/no atmosphere what have you.
Ryan Garrick
2024-10-22 15:41:30 +0000 UTCYou don’t have to replace your phone to get a new battery. For iPhone’s Apple charges $70-$100 to replace batteries, generally cheaper the older the phone. They will replace batteries in the last 12 years of phones. I don’t use Android but I believe Google & Samsung (2 biggest Android companies in the US) have similar programs/costs. For phones in particular the sealed batteries make waterproofing better. And there were phones with replaceable batteries available when iPhone & Android were available. BlackBerry’s peak year was 2011, 4 years after the iPhone was launched. Most of those had replaceable batteries, it just wasn’t a significant enough feature to keep customers.
Kevin v
2024-10-20 15:21:48 +0000 UTCThe first time I saw the milky way was when I rented Cosmos and watched "The Backbone of Night" episode. I was watching it and thought that only the people living on the Equator must be able to see that sky because Sagan was talking about people living there in the past. Then I realized that light pollution has kept me from seeing that my entire life. I've still never seen it in person.
Dan Lee
2024-10-20 00:11:51 +0000 UTCI watched a video of Tim Keape (British astronaut) on the ISS. He formed a ball of water, then used a ping pong paddle to move it around. It just flattened a bit and then reformed. He then put a tablet of Alka-Seltzer in the blob of water, it just fizzled and expanded a bit until the tablet dissolved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfxYBw2Sxo (1:50 & 3:25)
Asymetra
2024-10-19 18:26:19 +0000 UTC
