• 0 Posts
  • 73 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

help-circle

  • The drivers license number has information about gender and birthdate encoded into it. You can see enough of the number to know that this is someone who registered as female, and has a recorded birth date of 29 July '98. I assume this person isn’t 126 years old, so we’ll say they’re 26.

    You can tell it’s an Illinois license, because no other state is as obsessed with Lincoln. (Edit: you can also read the Illinois in the seal in the back left)




  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldClickbait asteroid
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 months ago

    It’s not a world ending strike. It’s 2.3% odds that a city ending strike lands somewhere on earth, most likely in the ocean.

    It’s a fraction of a fraction of a % that it’ll hit somewhere with any humans at all, much less a populated city.

    And on top of that, we have until 2032 to decide what to do about it, with enough time to potentially redirect it with technology we’ve already demonstrated that works. And if that isn’t enough, we just need one or two more data points to figure out almost exactly where it will hit, and can evacuate the area.

    Just like we do for hurricanes and other natural disasters.

    This is not an emergency, this is an easy mode try out for a real disaster.










  • Software is free if you aren’t using it for commercial use. Fusion 360, onshape, etc. are all free for personal use. And that’s assuming someone didn’t make it already and share it free.

    Filament costs $17 for 1kg of perfectly fine plastic. You’d probably use 100g at most for this, so $1.70.

    A Bambu A1 mini is $200, and is a modern, high quality printer that would be fine for this project.

    So you only need like a half dozen of these projects to come out ahead.