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Useless High-Voltage Power Lines Risk Sparking California Fires
"A line idle for decades has been accused of starting the LA area's deadly Eaton Fire," writes Bloomberg, describing California's abandoned power lines as "a fire risk hiding in plain sight."
[Abandoned power lines] fall out of use, either because they've been replaced or because the power plants ...
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Firefly's Moon-Orbiting 'Blue Ghost' Lunar Lander Tracked Earth-Orbiting GPS-Type Satellites
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this observation from space/science news blogger Robert Zimmerman:
Having now reached lunar orbit in preparation for its landing on March 2, 2025, an engineering test instrument on Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has now proven that even from that distanc...
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Richard Dawkins Asks ChatGPT If Its Conscious
British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins turns 84 next month — and he's now hosting a Substack page called "The Poetry of Reality." Monday's topic?
"Are you conscious? A conversation between Dawkins and ChatGPT"
Richard Dawkins: As far as I am concerned, you pass the Turing Test for c...
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Unexpected Shape of Lead-208 Nucleus of May Force Scientists to Reevaluate Atomic Nuclei Models
"An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical," reports Phys.org.
They add that the discovery "challenges fundamental assumptions about nuclear stru...
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Amazon Is Killing the Ability to Download eBooks to Your Computer
"Amazon has long allowed you to download its ebooks to your computer," notes PCMag.com, "where they can serve as a backup or be transferred to other devices.
"However, that feature will end on February 26, 2025, along with the ability to transfer books from your computer to your Kindle via USB."
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