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this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity

Salut la dedans o/
Ça y est ? Réveillé ?

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

– Carl Sagan

The dipole drive is a new propulsion system which uses ambient space plasma as propellant, thereby avoiding the need to carry any of its own.

centauri-dreams.org/2018/06/29

Today is the day.

From now on my only social media account is on :mastodon:

Researchers suggest that two Earth-like exoplanets (Kepler-186f and 62f) have very stable axial tilts, much like the Earth, making it likely that each has regular seasons and a stable climate. news.gatech.edu/2018/06/28/mor

"Money doesn't interest me" - Creator of Blender talks about its future - redd.it/8uxi14

Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.

-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel

A Variation Of The Buddhabrot That Produces Fractal Animations github.com/ecssiah/green-fract

How big can you get while still preserving those quantum properties?

To judge by the latest results, the answer is: pretty darn big.

quantamagazine.org/real-life-s

The Story of Stylo: Replacing Firefox's CSS engine with Rust

youtube.com/watch?v=Y6SSTRr2mF