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Beetific @beetific.ca · 25/09/2026

*squinting*

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 21/09/2026

Professor Norman Gary plays a clarinet while covered in bees, having applied queen pheromones to himself

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 29/04/2026

Hey I know this guy

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 25/04/2026

The people do not yearn for automation...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh delivering his famous description of democracy

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 24/04/2026

I thought this wouldn't work because it's all clones, but apparently selecting somatic mutants is a well known thing for spud breeders. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Diagram showing selection of several strains from clonally propagated Russet Norkotah potatoes

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 05/03/2026

Oh boy do I have just the show for you

A picture of Geordi Laforge, from Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 30/01/2026

Proving (or not) that it was him is what the trial's for. The thing here is (afaict, correct me if I'm wrong) because you can in principle stalk someone without using violent force, the stalking charge doesn't count as a "crime of violence" to which these specific murder & weapon charges can attach.

The analysis contained in the balance of this Opinion may strike the average person and indeed many lawyers and judges as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law. But it represents the Court's committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case. The law must be the Court's only concern.

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 23/01/2026

"The powerful have their power. But we have something too..."

PM Mark Carney gives a big hug to Bonhomme Carnaval

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 23/01/2026

Hi there, Looking For The German Fleet, I'm Dad

The Director of Operations Division, Rear Admiral Thomas Jackson, had asked the intelligence division, Room 40, for the current location of German call sign DK, used by Admiral Scheer. They had replied that it was currently transmitting from Wilhelmshaven. It was known to the intelligence staff that Scheer deliberately used a different call sign when at sea, but no one asked for this information or explained the reason behind the query-to locate the German

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 12/12/2025

Nice. I think my concern was about the realism of getting a uniformly high radiator temperature. I didn't see input temperature to the radiator, but on second perusal it must be somewhere between 3—17°C, which is colder than I would have guessed. Helps your point though

At assembly complete, each ammonia loop will supply coolant to five Interface Heat Exchangers (IFHX) and five cold plates (three Direct Current-to-Direct Current Units (DDCUs) and two Main Bus Switch Units (MBSUs)). Two MBSU cold plates, each designed to remove 495 watts watts at 80 lbs/hr. Three DDCU cold plates are each designed to remove 694 watts at 125 lbs/hr. The cold plate interfaces with the component base-plate via radiant fins. IFHXs transfer thermal

energy from the Interna Control System's (ITCS) water based coolant to the ETCS anhydrous ammonia coolant. Ammonia supply temperature is currently set at 37 °F (2.8 °C)

The ITCS supply temperature varies as a function of the modules' thermal load. IFHX can isolate and bypass the IFHX core on the ammonia side in the event a cold slug is detected at the pump outlet to prevent ITCS coolant from freezing.

Internal Active Thermal Control System (IATCS)

The purpose of the U.S. Destiny Laboratory ITCS is to maintain equipment within an allowable temperature range by collecting, transporting, and rejecting waste heat. The ITCS uses water because it is an efficient thermal transport fluid and is safe inside a habitable module. The IATCS is a closed loop system that provides a constant coolant supply to equipment, payloads and avionics to maintain proper temperature.

The U.S. Laboratory contains two independent loops, a Low Temperature Loop (LTL) and a

Moderate Temperature Loop (MTL). This approach allows for segregation of the heat loads, simplifies heat load management, and provides redundancy in case of equipment failure. The LTL is designed to operate at 40° F (4° C) and service systems equipment requiring low temperatures, such as the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Common Cabin Air Assembly (CCAA) and some payload experiments. The LTL contains approximately 16.64 gallons (63 liters) of fluid. The MTL nominally operates at 63° F (17° C) and provides most of the cooling for systems equipment (i.e. avionics) and payload experiments. The MTL contains approximately 52.83 gallons (200 liters) of fluid. Th The IATCS loops can be configured and operated as a single loop. This capability is used for a variety of purposes, including the reduction of wear on the pumps, reduction of pump power usage, or to compensate e for for a pump failure.

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 12/12/2025

This thing says the ISS can reject 70 kW with ~475 m² of radiator, for ~150 w/m², so real world losses look huge (?). They're doing -40°C at the radiator outlet, which i guess is most of the difference. Can a DC do better just with the higher (?) source temp? www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

A page showing a diagram of one ISS radiator wing, and a photo of a man dwarfed by one of its three elements.

Text:

Heat Rejection System (HRS) Radiator during deployment testing at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.

Heat collected by the EATCS ammonia loops is radiated to space by two sets of rotating radiator wings-each composed of three separate radiator ORUs. Each radiator ORU is composed o eight panels, squib units, squib unit fi b controller, Integrated Motor Controller Assemblies grated Controll (IMCAs), instrumentation, and QDs. Each Radiator ORU measures 76.4 feet (23.3 meters) by 11.2 feet (3.4 meters) and weighs 2,475 pounds (1,122.64 kilograms)

Radiator ORU (8 panels)

Radiator beam

Each ammonia loop

contains one radiator

ised of omprise three Radiator ORUs mounted on th Radiator Beam and six Radiator Beam Valve Module (RBVM)and one Thermal Radiator Rotary Joint (TRRJ). The Radiator ORUs utilize anhydrous ammonia to reiect he EATCS Each Radiator ORU contains a deployment mechanism and eight radiator panels. The deployment

Note: All three radiators shown deployed

mechanism allows the Radiator ORU to be launched in a stowed configuration and deployed on orbit. Each radiator ORU can be remotely deployed and retracted

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 18/11/2025

Brave of you to post this here; exposing your soft underbelly.

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 18/09/2025

Auger snails are long thin things that are a foot

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 30/08/2025

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 21/06/2025

The task was limited to 20 minutes, but I don't remember if they actually tracked finishing times. I doubt many would be early though, with so little time.

The participants were instructed to pick a topic among the proposed prompts, and then to
produce an essay based on the topic's assignment within a 20 minutes time limit. ( p. 27 )

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 19/06/2025

These obelisk prisons? x.com/voooooogel/s...

experts remind you: while this output may *appear* intelligent and creative, the LLM is actually just interpolating between the many CURSED PROMETHEAN ASCII ART OBELISK-PRISONS already in the pretraining dataset 😊

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 16/06/2025

It's just the left side of this per-county chart, but with one RED and therefore SCARY bucket www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1...

Two maps of the US, showing the approximate number of acres of farmland owned by Chinese (left) and Canadian (right) entities

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Beetific @beetific.ca · 30/12/2024

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