--- Log opened Sat Jul 30 00:00:35 2022 00:01 -!- darsie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has joined #hplusroadmap 03:34 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 04:12 -!- spaceangel [~spaceange@ip-78-102-216-202.bb.vodafone.cz] has joined #hplusroadmap 04:46 -!- neuralkn0t_ [~neuralkn0@176-20-84-214-dynamic.dk.customer.tdc.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 04:47 -!- neuralkn0t_ is now known as neuralkn0t 04:56 -!- neuralkn0t [~neuralkn0@176-20-84-214-dynamic.dk.customer.tdc.net] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 08:09 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has joined #hplusroadmap 09:23 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has left #hplusroadmap [] 11:48 -!- L29Ah [~L29Ah@wikipedia/L29Ah] has joined #hplusroadmap 12:44 < fenn> a couple billion cubic feet of helium for sale https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=FTWOR722018001 12:46 < kanzure> why is this on the market? helium is scarce 13:01 < fenn> people don't value unrenewable resources as much as they should 13:01 < fenn> once it's used it's gone forever 13:15 < L29Ah> helium is as renewable as earth 13:17 < fenn> it takes a lot more effort to launch earth onto an extrasolar trajectory 13:18 -!- balrog [balrog@user/balrog] has quit [Quit: Bye] 13:21 < fenn> send talent scouts to https://biologybowl.org/ 13:21 < L29Ah> fenn: currently helium mostly comes from nuclear fission in the earth crust 13:21 < L29Ah> grabbing it from solar wind would be much more annoying 13:22 -!- balrog [balrog@user/balrog] has joined #hplusroadmap 13:23 < fenn> my point is that you can't cause earth to be 'gone forever' as easily as with helium 13:23 < fenn> you just let it out of a balloon and then a series of energy transfer processes result in the helium going up, up, and away 13:23 < fenn> with earth it tends to stay put 13:24 < fenn> also we're going to need that helium 13:24 < L29Ah> you can't cause helium to be 'gone forever' as long as there's earth 13:24 < fenn> i don't understand 13:24 < fenn> the replenishment rate is very slow 13:25 < L29Ah> as it generates helium for you 13:29 < fenn> huh biocurious is still around? i haven't heard anything out of there for years 13:30 < L29Ah> if you need that helium, buy it and then sell it for much monies 13:32 < fenn> https://biocurious.org/projects/ 13:33 < fenn> emi and nikola nikolov were doing something with surface plasmon resonance (sensors?) 15:42 -!- spaceangel [~spaceange@ip-78-102-216-202.bb.vodafone.cz] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:46 < kanzure> how does one allocate additional compute capacity in the globally-scarce-everyone-is-computed model of the world? 18:00 -!- darsie [~darsie@84-113-55-200.cable.dynamic.surfer.at] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 18:06 < L29Ah> one buys it on the market 18:11 < kanzure> "Why it is important to study human–monkey embryonic chimeras in a dish" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01571-7 18:12 < kanzure> "New intranasal and injectable gene therapy for healthy life extension" https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2121499119 18:13 < kanzure> TDT/RNA method https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220145295A1/en 18:49 < kanzure> "The first book of the Foundation series was written in 1951. It was not just a story of a galactic empire — it was the first story of a galactic empire. Never before had anyone thought seriously about the dynamics of a polity consisting of millions of worlds containing trillions of humans spread across the Milky Way." 18:49 < kanzure> i didn't know it was the first.. 23:31 < fenn> how did the TDT patent come up? --- Log closed Sun Jul 31 00:00:36 2022