Not this thing again. Nuclear batteries have been around for decades, it's nothing new although it makes the rounds in the media for some reason every now and again. Yes they last a long time in theory, in practice there isn't really an environment they can live for that long in. It just means the lifetime isn't limited by the amount of energy the battery can provide and the failure mode will be something else. The thing that always gets buried in the media is the kicker: These devices produce at maximum a couple of nanowatts. That's just about enough to lift an ants dick if you are lucky. These devices do have their own very niche and specific uses, however for the general public there are zero uses. And don't go shouting but what if they scale it up or they are going to make it much more powerful. They won't, that's not possible and they are frankly very shitty batteries in terms of just about any metric you can throw at them. Their only real upside is the extremely long lifespan.

Read all about these specific devices here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device Or atomic batteries in general here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery

Yes these things are pretty neat and very interesting technology. No they do not serve any real purpose for the general public, so I have no idea why the media always wants to run with stories like these. It isn't really helpful tech startups like Betavolt for example shout out nonsense to get funding and the media just takes their word at face value, even when what they claim is physically impossible and not backed up by even their own numbers in any way. This article is about an US based startup that uses the exact same tech and tries to make the exact same sort of noise.

It's funny they still refer to this kind of shit as a bombshell. Must be a real small bomb for the zero reaction or consequences we've seen thus far.

Bruh I feel like shit when I get up at 7 AM after I've been doom scrolling till 4 in the morning, it must be the blue light man, must be

But they can still whip right? Right???

On the other hand, you're doing the first ever Moon landing, trying to manually find a good landing spot, running out of fuel and trying not to die. And all of a sudden your navigation computer starts throwing 1202 errors. That has to be one of the most butt clenched moments of all time.

Computer issues are basically tradition at this point.

Nothing, people did nothing, these things aren't life threatening. So in order to survive them you just need to wait till it's over.

There is this one case discussed in the YouTube video from almost 70 years ago where it is claimed the temperature got up to 60 degrees C. But all of the events in past 30 years with proper data haven't gotten above 40C, so I would very much doubt the 60C figure. These events are also brief, lasting at most a few hours. They are also rare and can only happen in specific places.

Why should we know about this super rare event exactly? They can't even happen in the region of the world I live in. I don't think anyone was ever hurt by one? The events are usually short and rather mild?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst

Most listed here don't get above 40C? We have regular days in summer where it's around 40 all day. Sure it's hot, but not unheard of hot and certainly not something to worry about happening. It might be weird if the temperature suddenly jumps from 24C to 34C, but that's all it is, just kinda weird.

I saw that YouTube video when it released and it was really interesting. But it's just a cool niche weather phenomenon, not something people should know.

Fuck Nestlé

The current species of sharks evolved around 200 million years ago, so yeah the species of sharks today have everything in common with the species of sharks 100 million years ago. Sharks are famously also remarkably stable in their evolution. They do evolve and branch out with specializations, but physically the basic shark form has been the same for a very long time. The sharks that were around 400 million years ago when trees first evolved would have been very similar to the sharks we have today.

One day I had worked for 18 hours straight. I was going home at 1AM and walked past a McDonald's. It was in the middle of summer, 35 degrees all day, but cooling off at night. I really needed a pick me up, so I walked in and approached the counter. A pretty lady looked at me and said: "I know exactly how you feel and what you are here for". In my mind she transformed into an angel and felt the holy energy radiating out. Then she followed up with: "I'm SO sorry, our ice-cream machine broke". I didn't even say anything, I just stared at her, a tear pushing it's way out of the corner of my eye. I mumbled something like "It's fine, don't worry about it", turned around and walked out. I'm not even sure how I got home that day, I was just mentally destroyed. This was 20 years ago and I still remember that moment :'(

Be careful, those generals can teleport you to a random Waffle House at any moment

Is was so sad to see those earlier experiments. A lot of those people actually thought they were helping those kids. But then when the results became clear they were really shocked and sad to see it was them all along. Often it was just little subconscious nudges.

There were however a lot of people who knew exactly what they were doing, at the cost of those kids. Especially that story about the "kid" claiming he got raped by his father was terrible. It really shows how something with good intentions can spiral out of control real fast.

Fuck those Spelling to communicate people, they should go to jail for the shit they are trying to pull.