One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
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@aerofreak @VoiceofDuum No, more because a nuclear winter would come with a substantial reduction in demand for energy.
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One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
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Is it a true ad?
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One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
@VoiceofDuum @dabertime I’ve subscribed to print now for 2 years. Never fails that I get a bust-out-loud-laugh from it. Very seriously though, the need for humor has never been stronger.
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One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
@VoiceofDuum TIL there was a print version!
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One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
@VoiceofDuum The answer seems obvious to me. When the sun explodes, we'll all have more solar power than we can possibly use for the rest of our lives.
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@VoiceofDuum TIL the onion still has a print version
@robinsyl @VoiceofDuum They reintroduced it recently, either 2025 or 2024 -
@VoiceofDuum @dabertime I’ve subscribed to print now for 2 years. Never fails that I get a bust-out-loud-laugh from it. Very seriously though, the need for humor has never been stronger.
@cobalt123 @VoiceofDuum @dabertime I should probably do this, too. I could use a good laugh in the mail.
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One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
@VoiceofDuum I still think about the column about Terry` Gross doing Fresh Air interviews whilst driving Ubers, daily
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@VoiceofDuum The answer seems obvious to me. When the sun explodes, we'll all have more solar power than we can possibly use for the rest of our lives.
the rest of our very short lives
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@VoiceofDuum You know, I love that, but all the air goes out of it when you remember it won't happen for, like, what, 4 BILLION years? Aramco might not even exist in a decade.
@thepoliticalcat @VoiceofDuum I'm pretty sure that's the joke?
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@aerofreak @VoiceofDuum Some people have always said that nuclear energy would make the energy crisis go away.
@ArtHarg @aerofreak @VoiceofDuum it's worth remembering that nuclear power and nuclear weapons are drastically different things, and nuclear power is not going to cause nuclear winter unless a lot of things go wrong
unironically, if nuclear winter happens and solar panels stop working, nuclear power might actually help with that 
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@mxchara @VoiceofDuum Nah, this is a billions-of-years thing. They don't do billions of years.
@martinvermeer @VoiceofDuum they might think the Sun will explode tomorrow when Jesus comes back
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@ArtHarg @aerofreak @VoiceofDuum it's worth remembering that nuclear power and nuclear weapons are drastically different things, and nuclear power is not going to cause nuclear winter unless a lot of things go wrong
unironically, if nuclear winter happens and solar panels stop working, nuclear power might actually help with that here's hoping we never need to seriously have that discussion, because we focus on degrowth and also don't put all our energy eggs in one basket@raphaelmorgan @aerofreak @VoiceofDuum The major difference between them is the timescale on which the nuclear energy is released. All the rest is either control or consequence
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Is it a true ad?@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum No. In about 5 billion years the sun's core supply of H will have been mostly converted to He via nuclear fusion that currently provides us with energy, & then the sun will expand to become a red giant with its surface just inside the Earth's orbit. At that point the core will engage in a He -> C fusion reaction. After a few hundred million years the core will be choked up with C and then it will collapse to become a white dwarf star. 1/3 #astronomicalTruths
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@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum No. In about 5 billion years the sun's core supply of H will have been mostly converted to He via nuclear fusion that currently provides us with energy, & then the sun will expand to become a red giant with its surface just inside the Earth's orbit. At that point the core will engage in a He -> C fusion reaction. After a few hundred million years the core will be choked up with C and then it will collapse to become a white dwarf star. 1/3 #astronomicalTruths
@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum The most important determinant of stellar evolution is stellar mass. Massive blue stars run through fusion reactions up to Fe & then explode in supernovae, & the whole process takes just a few million years. Fe is the energy well of the universe. Fusion of lighter elements yields energy, while fission of heavier ones yields energy. Tiny red dwarfs don't reach the He -> C stage, but take hundreds of billions of years to become white dwarfs. 2/3 #astronomicalTruths
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@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum The most important determinant of stellar evolution is stellar mass. Massive blue stars run through fusion reactions up to Fe & then explode in supernovae, & the whole process takes just a few million years. Fe is the energy well of the universe. Fusion of lighter elements yields energy, while fission of heavier ones yields energy. Tiny red dwarfs don't reach the He -> C stage, but take hundreds of billions of years to become white dwarfs. 2/3 #astronomicalTruths
@sposadelvento @VoiceofDuum The key to these differences is that each successive fusion stage requires greater stellar core compression in order to overcome the natural repulsion between positively charged atomic nuclei of increasing mass & charge. Low mass stars can't generate the required core compressions for higher-level nuclear fusion reactions, & also lower compressions mean lower fusion reaction rates, hence the vastly longer lives of low mass stars. 3/3 #astronomicalTruths
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> Actually the move off the main sequence will start already in some 2 billion years.
To be clear, a slow brightening of the Sun as the core fuel stock is depleting has already been going on over geological time. The switch off the main sequence is just an acceleration of this.
@martinvermeer @VoiceofDuum I'm not sure whether to be thrilled that the sun won't just turn off like a light switch or sad that the world will slowly be leached of color as the sun fades away - or if I should even contemplate any of this, since I probably only have a decade left on this planet?
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@thepoliticalcat @VoiceofDuum Just saying, looks can deceive — I’m very well preserved.
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@martinvermeer @VoiceofDuum I'm not sure whether to be thrilled that the sun won't just turn off like a light switch or sad that the world will slowly be leached of color as the sun fades away - or if I should even contemplate any of this, since I probably only have a decade left on this planet?
@thepoliticalcat @VoiceofDuum Well, you found it already worth one boost and two replies, so you do seem to care. So do I, though I too live in human time, not deep time. Not everything is about me me me, right?
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@thepoliticalcat @VoiceofDuum Well, you found it already worth one boost and two replies, so you do seem to care. So do I, though I too live in human time, not deep time. Not everything is about me me me, right?
@martinvermeer @VoiceofDuum I do, very much. I care about all kinds of things, and people, and I often wish I cared a little less, because I can't help but feel what they must feel when bad things happen. Not everything is about me, and not even about all the mes that belong in MY circle, and I wish, hope, and work to find a way to join all of us in making things better for all of us.
