Those would be harder too though. Right now we humans don’t have a material strong enough and the higher the gravity the stronger the material you would need.
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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Scientists discover reversible male birth control that stops sperm productionEnglish
2·4 days agoShould have just used bleach if they don’t care about it actually being a viable treatment. Or, for that matter, we’ve already invented spermicidal foam…
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Scientists discover reversible male birth control that stops sperm productionEnglish
1·4 days agoI was a donor to that project, and right now I think there are still concerns about the long-term reversibility. The project isn’t dead but I doubt we will see it as a readily available option for the public within the next decade, if ever.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
33·4 days agoHe is also not eliminating research, a lot of research projects are closing but this seems to be more of a re-org.
Some jobs will change and some employees will be asked to move to new locations, according to a March 31 email that Thomas M. Schultz, Jr., the Forest Service chief, sent to employees of the research and development section.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
73·4 days agoYeah this is more of a re-org than an elimination. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
Still seems like it might cause problems but it’s not the catastrophic change some people are making it out to be. And the Forest Service isn’t just a bunch of tree-hugging conservationists their mission is basically the sustainable exploitation of US forests. So for that reason they are very important to industry.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
715·4 days agoYeah it is highly exaggerated.
The regional offices are being replaced with 15 state-based offices.
Same with the research program.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•North America contains some of the longest continuous deciduous forest records on the planet.English
1615·4 days agoYeah that’s pretty misleading. The regional offices are being replaced with 15 state-based offices.
Same with the research program.
“The consolidation of research stations does not mean a retreat from the agency’s research mission,” Mr. Schultz said in the email. “Forest Service R&D has produced world-class science for over a century, and that will continue. The consolidation is about organizing the research enterprise more efficiently, not diminishing it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Straight people, would you date a non-binary person?
4·5 days agoNothing wrong with that ofc, but are you sure you are straight? Sounds like bi or pan to me idk.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL chicken sold in supermarkets are often "plumped" with a salt water solution to increase sell weight, making up as much as 30% of the total weight, and can contain up to 500mg of sodium per servingEnglish
3·14 days agoYeah it’s just brining. 30% and 500mg is crazy though. My local supermarket (and I checked-also walmart) value pack of chicken is 2% and about 50mg sodium per serving, which is pretty negligible. And it does make the chicken jucier.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Is there any decent PvP FPS that's not infested with cheaters? Looking for a decent PvP FPSEnglish
2·15 days agoHonestly… most online FPSs are fine if you aren’t good. I’m trash and I almost never see cheaters in R6 haha.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it true that the education system is crap in America?
13·17 days agoYeah the honest answer is there is no single “American education system”. Primary education is splintered into thousands of different counties, each with their own curriculum and funding, with varying degrees of state and national oversight. Some are good, some are terrible. My public school education was pretty solid overall, despite the clear shortage of funding.
On the other hand, despite rising costs, the US university system is still world-class.
I feel like it should be possible
I don’t think that’s true, we have more trees than we did 100 years ago but I couldn’t see anything about more trees than pre-European settlement. I am inclined to doubt that.
I guess. You could also look at things like plastic pollution where industry straight up won, and during the 60s-70s successfully pushed the responsibility onto consumers to recycle while continuing to crank out single use plastic with very few restrictions.
I don’t know of any for the ozone hole specifically, but you can look to the fight over cigarettes to see the same science-denying approach during the 50s and beyond. That was literally the blueprint for climate change denial by the fossil fuel industry in later decades.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Was the world always a fucked up place?
27·22 days agoStopping climate change is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE harder than protecting the ozone layer. Protecting ozone requires switching the chemicals we used in refrigerants and propellants to other, viable alternatives. That affected products worth, generously, maybe 1% of GDP?
Stopping climate changing the vast majority of the vehicles on the planet, along with the majority of our electrical power plants. It also necessitates stopping deforestation and overhauling a wide number of industrial processes, including for basic materials like steel and concrete. And that’s not even getting into methane emissions from livestock.
All of these things add up to a massive chunk of the planets GDP. It’s an extremely heavy lift, and it’s not fair to say that the world has gotten worse because we’re struggling more with climate change than the ozone hole.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Russian sources report that the last Russians embedded in Kupyansk are 200.
281·24 days agoThats pretty brutal. Putin is well on his way to being considered the greatest villain of the 21st century with his complete lack of concern over loss of human life. I do feel sad for a lot of these young men who think they are doing something heroic, when really they are dying for the vain ambitions of a dictator cowering in a bunker in Moscow.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Star Wars Memes@lemmy.world•Appreciating the original visionEnglish
21·30 days agoThe explosion should have been completely silent! My immersion is ruined!!!
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is anybody else worried about the lack of diverse opinion here?
184·30 days agoYeah it absolutely would benefit from a wider range of opinions. That’s why a large portion of my comments are “against the grain”, I don’t see the value of reinforcing prevailing opinions in an echo chamber. I hope that as Lemmy grows we will see more diverse opinions, but what I think is more likely is that the hard-core leftist part of Lemmy will sort of secede and defederate so they can preserve their echo chamber while the rest of lemmy gets taken over by “normies”

Delicious! Finally, some good fucking content.