Bacteria can thrive in some amazing places: Deserts, Antarctica, volcanoes, underwater volcanic vents. Basically everywhere on earth, even the most extreme places. So for any one property of the Mars enviroment, there will be a bacteria that can survive it. I’m going to go out on a limb and say there is probably a bacteria that can survive somewhere on the surface of mars. If there isn’t, then it probably won’t take long to mutate, and evolve into something that can survive there. But the chances of that bacteria being in your potato are pretty slim. Earth top soil is completely different to wherever that potato will land on Mars.

If you want to send potatoes to mars without accidentally introducing bacteria, then yes, there is a risk. On the other hand, if you want to seed mars with viable bacteria, you would do better by being selective about which bacteria you send there, and sending a food source more appropriate than a single potato.

I’m imagining a mosquito net set up like a tent.

That’s what I would do. Hook jumpers from the buzzer to the play button of an mp3 player. That way if the music system fails, the buzzer still wakes you up.

The system takes advantage of the heat difference between Earth’s surface and the night sky, with the ground radiating much of the heat it captured during the previous day.

It’s not a reverse solar panel. It’s not a solar anything. It requires a difference in heat… So it generates electricity in the same situation that a sterling engine uses to generate motion. Could you put one on a diesel generator to turn the waste heat into more electricity?

Does it have anything in common with those weird little solid state heat exchangers Peltier elements? Wait, are they actually, literally peltier elements?

Any flies that fly into my house are given a chance to leave. If I can herd them out the window, they get to live and make lots of new baby flies.

On the other hand, their chances of getting a close up view of the fly swatter increase exponentially with every minute they spend refusing to leave and ignoring the fact that I’m literally showing them the exit.

My cat could. But only because I would rub my fingers together to make a faint noise, so they could tell where my hand was without looking.

It significantly reduced the number of surprises, and they felt a lot more comfortable around me.

Link to screenshot with spoilers. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kkVk6dGVJwZ8TIArjQF25tSgM9WMfr3l?usp=sharing

Thank you for sharing this. I have mixed feelings about this piece.

There’s a lot to look at. They’ve obviously put a lot of time and skill into it, and it’s nice to look at, and I don’t want to sound like I don’t appreciate its merits, but I feel like I can’t appreciate it completely.

The top and bottom thirds are interesting and recognizable, but my brain has to work hard to piece together the busy middle section. I kind of wish they had done something like this: !parallelview@sh.itjust.works

That would take it from “wow, this is awesome” to “mind blowingly awesome”

I wouldn’t work very well to see it in real life, because you’d have to stand so far back you couldn’t appreciate the fine details. But it would be possible to arrange two close up photographs to get a 3D effect of the detail.

Make her a little leather helmet.

Vantage Master 2 fits that requirement. It has been released as freeware for Windows XP.

I tried to play Warlord 2 like that, but there are times when I want to shift-click, or alt-click, and my onscreen keyboard doesn’t always allow that.

This is beautiful

The headline is misleading, the article doesn’t mention using AI as a tool. They’re selling scans to companies who train AI.

“Boston Public Library plans to digitize 5,000 documents by the end of the year, and if all goes well, grow the project from there.”

“AI companies help fund these efforts, and in return get to train their large language models on high-quality materials that are out of copyright and therefore less likely to lead to lawsuits.”

How about we just don’t turn iff 4g or 5g.

Cool, thank you. lol at the wall of shame.

Button placement is kinda annoying sometimes.

Is it possible to turn off the fingerprint reader? And assign the volume button to some other function or to do nothing when you press it accidentally?

Also, does it have a firewall that can sandbox apps and prevent them from accessing sensors/files/internet?

Pro tip: You can just eat the ingredients straight from the fridge.

I like how you assume the chaos puff is going forwards, and now ass first towards the horrified woman.

Can I rephrase the question to, what is the longest electromagnetic wavelength ever recorded?

I’m not the OP, but I couldn’t leave y’all hanging with no moss.