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  2. Comment on China have a new sixty-centimeter dome Terahertz telescope in Antarctica, a two week trek from their station in ~space

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    update, author replied:

    update, author replied:

    The HEAT telescope did make some observations but they were never published, so scientists have found it hard to determine exactly what HEAT accomplished. I probably should have mentioned HEAT in the story.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on China have a new sixty-centimeter dome Terahertz telescope in Antarctica, a two week trek from their station in ~space

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    Wow yeah. do you mind if I email the author of the article about this? I feel like this needs a correction, or at least get re-edited to mention HEAT

    Wow yeah. do you mind if I email the author of the article about this? I feel like this needs a correction, or at least get re-edited to mention HEAT

    15 votes

  4. Comment on China have a new sixty-centimeter dome Terahertz telescope in Antarctica, a two week trek from their station in ~space

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    It is very difficult for astronomers to scan the terahertz frequencies between infrared and radio waves because water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere absorbs them. Astronomers in China have managed to...

    It is very difficult for astronomers to scan the terahertz frequencies between infrared and radio waves because water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere absorbs them. Astronomers in China have managed to make it work by putting a terahertz telescope in the driest place on Earth, but it wasn’t easy. The instrument, the Antarctic Terahertz Explorer, has a 60-centimeter dome and has been painstakingly hauled out to Dome A, the highest point on a plateau four kilometers above sea level on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The 1,228-kilometer trip from Zhongshan Station to Dome A took two weeks by tracked vehicle. The ATE60 is the first step of many, as the Chinese Academy of Sciences has agreed to fund at least two one-meter telescopes at Dome A.

    13 votes

  8. Comment on Postal arbitrage in ~finance

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    As of 2025, a stamp for a letter costs $0.78 in the United States. Amazon Prime sells items for less than that... with free shipping! Why send a postcard when you can send actual stuff?

    5 votes

  10. Comment on UK Conservative party would ban under-16s from social media in ~society

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    banning MPs from social media would probably massively increase the quality of discourse in the house of commons lol

    banning MPs from social media would probably massively increase the quality of discourse in the house of commons lol

    6 votes

  11. Comment on What’s a point that you think many people missed? in ~talk

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    this is just fraud, at least in the US the IRS have their own team of people who independently assess art values to prevent this

    this is just fraud, at least in the US the IRS have their own team of people who independently assess art values to prevent this

    11 votes

  12. Comment on Fascist, thus inefficient in ~movies

  13. Comment on Blue Origin sticks first New Glenn rocket landing and launches NASA spacecraft in ~space

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    eh, there's not that much there that's particularly useful for military purposes as far as I'm aware, so I'm not sure what that'd entail, do you have anything in mind when you say that?

    aggressively militarizing the Moon

    eh, there's not that much there that's particularly useful for military purposes as far as I'm aware, so I'm not sure what that'd entail, do you have anything in mind when you say that?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Cool! I got a little bit into writing crafting interpreters in python before getting distracted (think I got lexer and parser working), it's cool to see that the underlying logic for a compiler...

    Cool! I got a little bit into writing crafting interpreters in python before getting distracted (think I got lexer and parser working), it's cool to see that the underlying logic for a compiler doesn't have to be that complicated

  15. Comment on The cognitive legion etrangere in ~society

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    A proposal for how to get truly neutral parties running important bits of government - just appoint people from neighbouring countries with less of a horse in the race. I don't think this idea is...

    A proposal for how to get truly neutral parties running important bits of government - just appoint people from neighbouring countries with less of a horse in the race.

    I don't think this idea is particularly sound as a general rule (and obviously many many people in the host country would hate it), but I feel like there must exist some places where this would be a cool viable solution, and also it's just a fun principle

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Crossdressing Garbage in ~creative

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    fair, that makes sense

    fair, that makes sense

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Crossdressing Garbage in ~creative

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    i really like the fuzzy style, works super well with the content and feeling of being inside your mind, sort of impressionistic-y. I can sympathise with the idea of not really knowing how to...

    i really like the fuzzy style, works super well with the content and feeling of being inside your mind, sort of impressionistic-y. I can sympathise with the idea of not really knowing how to confront and just wanting to walk away from idiotic gossip, just sucks. Hope stuff clarifies for you <3

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Body time and daylight savings apologetics in ~life