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Anti_Face_Weapon , to Technology in A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows

What?? No way!! :O

Tinidril , to Technology in A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows

I have a hunch that "working" would not exactly be a top priority.

claraalex620 , to Futurology in Marriage of synthetic biology and 3D printing produces programmable living materials

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xpinchx , to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences in World extends run of heat records for an 11th month in a row

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LostXOR , to World News in 'Lost' spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say

Interesting, according to Wikipedia it's only in an 800km orbit. I'm surprised it wasn't detected sooner as it's pretty big (66cm diameter).

Tar_alcaran ,

It's a really really good spy sat

lnxtx ,
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Maybe it was detected and tracked as a space trash until now.

JoMiran , (edited ) to World News in 'Lost' spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say
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Lost? Nah. That little guy just took its spy job seriously.

TokenBoomer , to World News in 'Lost' spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say
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maculata , to Astronomy in How NASA's Roman mission will hunt for primordial black holes

I don’t think there are many black holes in Rome. But I suppose they really want to make sure.

Excrubulent , to Fuck Cars in Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs
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We have to keep secret all this material that may or may not be toxic but is definitely all around us because otherwise tyre makers might not be able to sell us as many tyres, and that's really important for some reason.

HaywardT , to Fuck Cars in Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs

I wish we would use this term instead of microplastics since microplastics are composed of 78% tire dust.

Mishmash2000 ,
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You're so right! When something is almost 80% of a thing, it's more or less that thing now. It's that thing, plus some other stuff but the focus has to be on the thing that is almost 80% of the issue. If we reduce car tyre derived microplastics by one quarter it would be the equivalent of completely eliminating ALL other sources of microplastics. The issue needs reframing badly!

HaywardT ,

I think it is intentional to get the focus off the problem. "It's not that one industry, it's all the little things. Give up your plastic straw. Give up your plastic bag. It's your fault and in your control. We are just over here turning oil into tires for your convenience."

Mishmash2000 ,
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It could backfire though because people now understand that microplastic = bad so all we need to say is "You know those pesky microplactics? Yup. Well, basically tyre!".

Pyr_Pressure ,

Well, we call the stuff we breath "air" despite it being 80% nitrogen. It would be a bit weird saying we breath nitrogen. "Air" is a general catch-all term for the mixture of things that we breath.

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TheControlled , to science in New evidence found for Planet 9

Back in my day it was called Planet X, god dammit!

JamesTBagg ,

Because back in my (our) day Pluto was number, so Planet X worked. Planet VIIII doesn't look as good.

5wim ,

Uh, you mean "IX"?

Klear ,

That means "Boy who is not able to satisfactorily explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven". I don't see how that applies here.

5wim ,

Fair

Gabu ,

VIIII is a valid way to write 9, though antiquated. If you look at very old clocks, you'll see they all use this notation.

5wim ,

Didn't realize homie was an antiquated clock.
(Assumed the usage of Roman numerals, like in the references being made, in which case I don't believe the clumsy VIIII only used on old clocks would really be valid.)

Opisek ,

The reason clocks use it, is to not make it look visually unbalanced. Most often they write 4 as IIII. I find it infuriating to break such a simple rule though.

But also, I've never ever seen VIIII.

Gabu ,

Julius Caesar's memoir of war in Gaul makes use of VIIII, for instance. You're right that it's much rarer, but was still used contemporarily and in modern times.

Sanctus ,
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Yes, Ix, let's start naming these planets like its classic SciFi.

dezmd , to science in New evidence found for Planet 9
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subignition , to science in New evidence found for Planet 9
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A new planet in a distant orbit, you say?
In before the signal is older than the universe itself.

Charred ,

The downvotes are not getting the reference smh.

Science compels us to blow up the sun!

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