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scottalanmiller

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

I always wondered about fruitcake. What is it really made of? Antifreeze?

QuixoticJustin

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

I always wondered about fruitcake. What is it really made of? Antifreeze?

Apparently not, it's been frozen all these years.

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/

Yup, so this is in the news.

mlnews

http://news.softpedia.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-afraid-of-new-fappening-517373.shtml

mlnews

MOre great news for Samsung...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phone-explodes-almost-burns-down-the-house-517374.shtml

scottalanmiller

Perseid meteor shower set to peak at weekend
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40909057

scottalanmiller

Saudi singer arrested for dabbing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40886288

mlnews

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/12/goldfish_carp_oxygen_ethanol/

Goldfish turn to booze... smart fish.

mlnews

Rats take out London Internet...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/11/rodents_destroy_internet_in_south_london/

JaredBusch

Mainichi Shimbun reporters visited the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant on July 27.

Video is subtitled.

For reference about the various radiation readings mean, XKCD released a very good graphic shortly after the meltdown back in 2013.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/radiation.png

mlnews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2017-solar-eclipse-atmosphere

mlnews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2017-solar-eclipse-atmosphere

mlnews

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/eclipse_searches.png

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

NerdyDad

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

They'll still have latency issues.

coliver

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

Sounds like they are trying to compete with SpaceX's LEO satellites that are supposed to have ~20ms of latency.

NerdyDad

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

Sounds like they are trying to compete with SpaceX's LEO satellites that are supposed to have ~20ms of latency.

SpaceX would eat my lunch, depending on what they are offering.

Dashrender

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

They'll still have latency issues.

Outside of live things, it's probably not a real problem. yeah, you don't want it if you are a gamer, and you might get some issue with video chat, but general surfing, using of the web, streaming media, should be totally usable.

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

They'll still have latency issues.

Outside of live things, it's probably not a real problem. yeah, you don't want it if you are a gamer, and you might get some issue with video chat, but general surfing, using of the web, streaming media, should be totally usable.

It's slow enough that web pages noticeably slow down. Things like voice are often impossible.