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@JBert said in In other news today...:
But did they name it "Music MTV"?
EDIT: "MTV Music" might also be acceptable.
5 seconds on doubleduckgoing did not clarify this for me, so I guess we will have to live in ignorance for the time being.
Edit: unless d.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This isn't affecting me but I do have an odd one. If my VPN is on I sometimes can't connect my phone to iTunes. So I have to turn it off or switch to a different exit point.
My personal phone etc is fine but iCloud on my work laptop (which uses a different iCloud account) made me log in again. It seems to otherwise be working though
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
Proud member of the club!
I was in college when they came into existence.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
Proud member of the club!
I was in college when they came into existence.And that's the last time I watched them.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
Well... we can't rewind, we've gone too far.
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@Zecc in your mind and in your car?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
I think in a delicious twist of irony they have created a new channel now which does play music videos, but it's not their main channel.
@JBert said in In other news today...:
But did they name it "Music MTV"?
EDIT: "MTV Music" might also be acceptable.
Yeah, it's MTV Music.
Music Television Music.Sounds like they should just go full audio for their primary audience (aging truckers using satellite radio), and then spin off a subsidiary with sharable video clips.
Grandpa, do you remember when the exponent was countable? Â Sure I do, we used to even know the rate of change. In your great-grandfather's day they didn't even use an exponent, they used serial notation, which remained the style at the time...
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
Well... we can't rewind, we've gone too far.
Kindness is always an option, unless you've snapped the tape...
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Um, what? Surely that requires putting in at least as much energy as you gained by burning whatever you put in there in the first place?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, what? Surely that requires putting in at least as much energy as you gained by burning whatever you put in there in the first place?
IIRC, carbon-carbon bonds are less energetic than carbon-hydrogen bonds.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, what? Surely that requires putting in at least as much energy as you gained by burning whatever you put in there in the first place?
IIRC, carbon-carbon bonds are less energetic than carbon-hydrogen bonds.
But by enough to get over two oxygen double bonds?
ed. you mean carbon-oxygen
All bonds have carbon, Ed.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Surely that requires putting in at least as much energy as you gained by burning whatever you put in there in the first place?
It also requires eutectic gallium-indium, which is only $13000/kg. (It's probably a bit less than that if you buy kg or multi-kg quantities. That price is scaled-up from the small quantities Sigma-Aldrich lists online.) And acutely toxic, chronically toxic, and corrosive.
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Today in I don't know why I keep reading this paper...
Also, known as chores handled by most parents.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in I don't know why I keep reading this paper...
Sounds like you need an Expectation Manager
Paywall-free version: https://archive.is/kjgjs
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Sounds like you need an Expectation Manager
Expectation: Not much.
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@topspin Also wondering what's happening to all that oxygen, and why it doesn't go back to being CO2.
If the oxygen instead bonds with the metal .. well, the second part of the trick (which will cost a lot of energy) is getting the oxygen off your very expensive liquid metal mix.
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@cvi O2 is a popular route when available, but I'm also pretty sure gallium forms oxides, so, (runs away)
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@cvi If the headline is correct (and that's a huge "if", given the state of modern "journalism"), the metal is a catalyst, which by definition is unchanged by the reaction. So presumably the oxygen is not bonding to it. The reaction occurs at only 100â120°C, so it's not hot enough for the carbon to spontaneously recombine (combust) with the freed oxygen. With no further information, I'd assume it's given off as O2. I'd also assume it takes a continuous and significant input of energy to maintain the system at 100â120°C, because C + O2 is a higher energy state than CO2; the energy to split them apart has to come from somewhere, and the thermal energy of the heated catalyst is the most obvious source.
Also, the article seems to be assuming pure CO2 is being bubbled through the metal. It says nothing about what happens if the CO2 is contaminated with H2O, N2, CO, NOx and other combustion products and byproducts. If the CO2 has to be separated from the combustion product stream first, that's additional inefficiency.
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Guys, wrong thread.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28320/no-time-to-make-a-bond-thread
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Growing a frog's lost leg on a human would look pretty weird.
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@loopback0 just think of the effect on sport tho, much more entertaining.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 just think of the effect on sport tho, much more entertaining.
Unfair advantage for swimmers though
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@HardwareGeek I honestly don't remember, but I had the impression that catalysts worked both ways. So it would make it easier both for CO2 to split into C+O2 and for C+O2 form CO2. That you'd form free O2 was my initial thought, but then if the only energy you put into the reaction is heat, you're essentially converting heat into chemical energy. Kinda seems backward, usually that likes to go in the other direction. Entropy and theromodynamics would probably like to have a word or two with you about that.
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Waiting for a meeting, I somehow persuaded the warthog to scrounge around for a link to the actual research:
Abstract says:
remarkably enabling COâ activation and carbon production even at room temperature
an increase of 9.6% in the carbonâcarbon bond content and an equivalent decrease in the Ga metal content
This led to the conclusion that solid carbon and gallium oxide are the final reaction products of this process.
Iâm guessing âcatalystâ is a fiction of the New Atlas writer, who thought it meant something like âthing that causes reaction.â
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@kazitor so this is completely useless?
(Practically speaking. It might still be of scientific interest for someone)
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Soon: "scientists realize they could have avoided the whole thing if they hadn't cut out the frog's leg in the first place".
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
so this is completely useless?
Steady on, Iâve already exceeded my working quota!
I wouldnât say itâs necessarily useless, as there could be further processing to get the gallium back. At the expense of energy, of course, but the point (if any beyond academic curiosity) is presumably to scrub emissions in industries that might not even be burning carbon for power.
Very belated fake fake edit: actually, I think the intent might more be to provide a source of solid carbon where thatâs needed.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Soon: "scientists realize they could have avoided the whole thing if they hadn't cut out the frog's leg in the first place".
But where's your sense of adventure? And your sense of searching research funding?
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
to scrub emissions in industries that might not even be burning carbon for power.
although, given its ubiquity, they probably do have a lot of gallium on hand.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
if the only energy you put into the reaction is heat, you're essentially converting heat into chemical energy. Kinda seems backward, usually that likes to go in the other direction. Entropy and theromodynamics would probably like to have a word or two with you about that.
You can pay them off with more heat, which you had to do in advance or at least at the same time. There are endothermic reactions. A lot of organic reactions require pushing up over a difference in bond energy to get to what may or may not be a lower energy state.
If at all stable, tho, the end product will be lower energy than the peak of the reaction system over time.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
presumably to scrub emissions in industries that might not even be burning carbon for power.
With a net result of burning even more carbon to power the CO2 recycling industry.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today in I don't know why I keep reading this paper...
For the crossword?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Guys, wrong thread.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28320/no-time-to-make-a-bond-thread
âThe name is Bond. Covalent Bond.â
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would have made more sense than . I regret my choice.
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@loopback0 just in time.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Guys, wrong thread.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28320/no-time-to-make-a-bond-thread
âThe name is Bond. Covalent Bond.â
Isn't it ionic? Don'cha think?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Wonder how accurate it is. Normally nose and mouth are important points for the recognition.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Guys, wrong thread.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28320/no-time-to-make-a-bond-thread
âThe name is Bond. Covalent Bond.â
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Wonder how accurate it is. Normally nose and mouth are important points for the recognition.
Eh, it's only access to your email, financial information, medical information, browsing history, text messages, photos, and Rule 34 MLP collection. What could go wrong?
Besides, it's Apple users. They're not bright enough to cover their mouth and nose properly, anyway. It probably uses their individual style of wearing a mask wrong.
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They'll never find me. I don't talk to real people.
Today's PSA: If there was locational data here it would have been trivially easy.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Wonder how accurate it is. Normally nose and mouth are important points for the recognition.
Eh, it's only access to your email, financial information, medical information, browsing history, text messages, photos, and Rule 34 MLP collection. What could go wrong?
Besides, it's Apple users. They're not bright enough to cover their mouth and nose properly, anyway. It probably uses their individual style of wearing a mask wrong.
And what color mask they have "on".
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(The Sue Gray report is the one into Boris and cronies partying under the claim of them being âwork eventsâ. Itâs currently being held up by the local police who actually might do some policing. Eventually.)
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
Well... we can't rewind, we've gone too far.
Kindness is always an option, unless you've snapped the tape...
Kindness is not a well-supported option on this hardware.