• Discussion of CO₂-to-liquid-hydrocarbon synthesis routes, with a participant advocating pairing the process with nuclear power to supply the required energy.

• A free vacuum evaporator was offered to anyone willing to travel to Nebraska, highlighting the channel’s tradition of redistributing surplus lab equipment.

• Sci-Hub maintainers expressed willingness to integrate the pdfparanoia watermark-removal tool if shown performance benchmarks, noting their single-server architecture is already under extreme load and that broken cross-reference tables hurt user experience.

• A 90-minute, 6 900-word brainstorming session between kanzure and Bitcoin developer Peter Todd was logged, though the content was not quoted.

• The arXiv pre-print “Terrestrial planets across space and time” (1602.00690) was shared; it uses semi-analytic galaxy-formation models to estimate ≈2×10¹⁹ terrestrial planets around FGK stars and ≈7×10²⁰ around M dwarfs in the observable universe, and argues the average such planet is only 1.7 Gyr old.

• Francis Bacon’s 1627 utopian tract “The New Atlantis” was referenced for its depiction of Solomon’s House, a proto-scientific institute credited with inspiring the Royal Society.

• A DIY attempt to culture Quorn (mycoprotein) was deemed impractical after discovering that the required Fusarium venenatum spores cost hundreds of dollars from ATCC.

• Optical levitation of graphite in a maglev configuration controlled by laser light was demonstrated in a linked YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ7fMVp_O5s).

• The nootropic peptide Semax was raised for anecdotal experience reports, but no detailed responses were recorded in the log.