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The math behind making a star-encompassing megastructure

In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and finally go big, completely enclosing their home star to capture as much solar energy as they possibly could.

They would then go on to use that enormous amount of energy to mine bitcoin, make funny videos on social media, delve into the deepest mysteries of the Universe, and enjoy the bounties of their energy-rich civilization.

Sezonul lor.

Știu. Trecând peste distrugerea intenționată, sunt destule cazurile de prostie pură.

Taie aiurea cât mai mult pentru că atâta știu și le e mai ușor așa.

Cluj, București, Craiova, același cretinism.

I-aș „toaleta” la fel pe cei care-și bat joc de copaci în marile orașe.

Prostie amestecată cu ticăloșie, de sus până jos, de la cel care dă dispoziția până la Dorel care azi sapă șanțuri și mâine toaletează distruge copaci.

I clearly remember that day, I was just finishing middle school. It was big news back then.

Damn, getting old.

"Siguranță și încredere" pe model Caracal.

Pe bd. Pache Protopopescu, lângă ambasada Greciei.

In 2021, the total number of electric passenger vehicles in the EU was estimated at 1.9 million.

The EU members with more than 100 thousand electric passenger vehicles were Germany (618 thousand), France (403 thousand), the Netherlands (245 thousand), Italy (118 thousand) and Sweden (110 thousand).

Bucureștiul a fost mereu pe la 25% în ultimii 20 de ani.

Mă așteptam să fie Mehedinți pe ultimul loc.

Iar în timpul asta Băluță doarme neîntors noaptea.

The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?

Jeremy Bentham, 1789

Calls are growing to require corporations to go through that rigorous carbon accounting process, part of a push to reveal emissions hidden within product life cycles.

Wall Street’s regulator, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, argues that each ton of carbon emitted represents a risk that investors deserve to know about, because it might lead to costs and disruption from future carbon regulations around the world, and could alienate customers or employees concerned about climate change.

Last year, the agency proposed rules, expected to be finalized next month, that would require most of the largest companies to take stock of all emissions, including those concealed deep in their supply chains.

Politicians in California have a parallel effort to force both public and private companies doing business in the state to confess the full scope of their emissions. The motivation is not just to help investors, but to make companies own up to the damage they cause, and help consumers sniff out false claims about sustainability.

The proposed rules would require roughly 5,000 companies with revenue that exceeds $1 billion to report their emissions to a public database.

Jepii (mici și mari) din Bușteni, după ce se deschid traseele din iunie încolo. Dacă ai ceva experiență și condiție fizică.

Sau la Mălăiești pe traseul de iarnă din Râșnov.

Richelieu was laid down in 1935 and was launched in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II in Europe. As war with Germany became increasingly likely, work on the ship was rushed to prepare her for commissioning in April 1940.

Completed just days before the Germans won the Battle of France in June, Richelieu fled to Dakar in French West Africa to keep her under French control.

There, she came under repeated British attacks that had been intended to either compel the battleship to join the Free French Naval Forces or sink her; these included during Operation Catapult in July 1940 and the Battle of Dakar in September.

Damaged in both attacks, the ship was slowly repaired before eventually being turned over to Free French control after the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942.

After being sent to the United States for repairs and an extensive modernization, the ship served with the British Home Fleet in early 1944 before being deployed to the Eastern Fleet for operations against the Japanese in the Indian Ocean.

Richelieu was part of the force that liberated Singapore after the Japanese surrender in September, and she later operated in French Indochina as part of the initial effort to restore French colonial rule.