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some_guy, to upliftingnews in Couple Who Won 100,000 in Lottery Plans to Spend Money on Fostering Children

Maybe one child for $100k. If they get two they’ll be stretched thin.

Sir_Kevin,
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My thoughts exactly! 100K ain’t shit. Certainly not “save the children” money. It’s not even enough to raise one child.

Seraph, to upliftingnews in Couple Who Won 100,000 in Lottery Plans to Spend Money on Fostering Children
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Sucks it'll take them 5 years of red tape first!

thanevim,

Any 5 year bonds they could put the money into? Cause 100k seems like a fair amount, but, well

Kids are expensive.

candyman337, to upliftingnews in Couple Who Won 100,000 in Lottery Plans to Spend Money on Fostering Children

I am very suspicious of that tbh

fidodo, to upliftingnews in Couple Who Won 100,000 in Lottery Plans to Spend Money on Fostering Children

Sounds about right, nowadays you need to win the lottery to afford having kids

ares35,
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and the £100,770 ain't gonna go very far. they already have three kids, they ought to know that.

kemsat, to upliftingnews in Couple Who Won 100,000 in Lottery Plans to Spend Money on Fostering Children

Brave. Good luck & Godspeed. 🤯🫡

NocturnalMorning, to upliftingnews in New Blood Test Could Diagnose Parkinson’s Before it Begins Damaging the Nervous System

Is this really big news if we still can’t do anything about it?

partial_accumen,

Absolutely it is big news! If you know what your future holds you can plan for it. This means getting your affairs in order, taking that trip across Europe you’ve always wanted to do now instead of when you were planning at 65 (when you might be disabled from Parkinson).

On the scientific front, early detection would also let researchers learn how the disease progresses and could unlock new treatments to slow or stop the disease in earlier stages that we can’t do right now because we detect the disease too late.

Bipta,

Parkinsons can be controlled decently through early intervention, at least compared to Alzheimer's. It could be the difference between 10 additional years with some quality of life or not.

BrazenSigilos, to upliftingnews in Remarkable Man Averts Oil Tanker Disaster by Crowdfunding to Remove Crumbling Ship From Red Sea

This is good, but where is the company that left this crumbling wreck? Who was responsible for it when it was abandoned? Yes, the oil belongs to a country with a government in flux, but surely the crew where part of a corporation or business of some sort.

boblaw0,
Alto,
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It was abandoned due to the civil war in Yemen.

Coffeemonkepants, to upliftingnews in Remarkable Man Averts Oil Tanker Disaster by Crowdfunding to Remove Crumbling Ship From Red Sea

It’s not the MT Yemen anymore! Good on this guy. Shouldn’t have to come this method, but I’m glad it worked out.

IFleeFromTheShape, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

We at the space elevator tier material yet? Need to get that bad boy constructed asap

Sibbo, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

How does this compare to carbon fiber?

mifan,
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Depends. Are you building a sub?

cassetti,

Damn, beat me to it

Zdvarko,

Yeah I had a sinking feeling it was only lab based at this stage

keeb420,

That is crushing news.

PreparaTusNalgasPorque,

The hype is gonna die down

Curious_Canid,
@Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca avatar

That was my first though too.

Also, I understand why they just talk about “strength”, but it would be nice to have some real idea of which properties they really mean. Is it harder? Does it resist impact better? Does it resist lateral torsion better? Steels cover a wide range and almost always involve tradeoffs.

DavidGarcia,

Yeah it’s kind of insane what a miracle material steel is. Especially for how long ago it has been discovered and we still haven’t found another material that is better in every way, like how steel replaced iron or brass or copper. The balance of all the material properties for its weight/volume and its manufacturability and price is just unbeatable.

For scifi purposes,I tried to find another material that could beat it if cost wasn’t an issue and I couldn’t. Closest ones I could find that aren’t already obiquitous in popular consciouness like titanium, aluminium, tungsten carbide etc. are Molybdenum and Beryllium. But yeah, they don’t exactly beat steel either.

PetteriSkaffari,

And how renewable is this new glass-coated DNA material? Iron scores pretty high on that one too.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t beryllium pretty brittle, though? Beryllium poisoning happens due to airborne particles, I thought it almost… crumbled? I guess?

DavidGarcia,

yeah meanwhile iron is literally nescessary to make your blood transport oxygen. Mo and Be (and their alloys) just have similar strength to weight ratios, but they aren’t exactly practical drop in replacements. So yeah, I haven’t found anything better than steel, there’s just materials that are better in one or two aspects, but nothing with the versatility of steel. To be fair, we have thousands of years of research into steel, perhaps we can still find something better. Idk, maybe some high entropy alloy.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Materials science is still chugging along, I think there are more metals to discover.

anzo, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

Show me a sword 🗡️

Noodle07,

Sword or no award!

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

This is actually pretty cool:

The colleagues reported in Cell Reports Physical Science that by building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, they have created a very strong material with very low density.

They use self-assembling DNA to build a lattice, which is then doped with microscopic glass. It's kind of like reinforced concrete but at the molecular scale. Scaling it up will be the hard part but the technique is pretty innovative.

TheDarkKnight,

Graphene vibes

ArtisinalBS,

What do you mean? Graphene is amazing at everything but one.
The one is getting out of the lab , but still…

doggle,

I saw a YouTube video a while ago about 3d printing structures with organic filaments. Now self replicating DNA composites… it’s interesting and a bit unsettling to think of a future where buildings may be literally alive.

Techmaster, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

I always find it weird when they say stuff like something is 5 times lighter than something else. Or it’s 10 times cheaper than something else. It seems better to say scientists have invented a new material that weighs 1/5 as much as steel.

doggle,

Yeah. You can’t x by a positive number and end up with a product that’s smaller than x. It’s literally incorrect, even though they obviously mean it’s one fifth rather than “five times”

PrinzMegahertz, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

Great. Now WB has to rebrand Superman to „Man of Material four times Stronger than Steel“.

TubeTalkerX, to upliftingnews in Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

That only works in the Lab….

snooggums,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

The first step of every new invention...

AdmiralShat,

Is also the last step for 90% of them

GBU_28,

Welcome to the scientific process

Zink,

I was looking for mention of the size of the piece they made, given that the material is a nano structure. No mention of it that I saw.

Probably not even visible to the eye.

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