True, but you are mixing up a little bit of the timeline of the universe.
The CMB is from a time about 300,000 years after the “big bang” where the entire universe was basically a giant red star. It was the first time that any light could shine, because before that, the entire universe was so dense that literally no light could move. There were no comets or asteroids because there was literally no way for anything solid to form. esa.int/…/Cosmic_Microwave_Background_CMB_radiati…
The time of the comets and asteroids were billions of years later. Much later, after the galaxies, and then our solar system developed. This was about 10 billion years after the time that the CMB was being emitted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
I’ve been rewatching TOS recently, and I noticed that Chekov’s hair had a mind of its own for a while. I took a few screenshots, looked up the story behind it, and made this really quick for anyone like me who wasn’t aware....
I love how everyone worships dogs. Most dogs I’ve met are exciting as fuck, they play constantly, run around everywhere and jump with you. I fully understand that this is a dog lover problem, but damn, dogs are special.
Kids are similar, they are exciting, dirty, loud, playful, etc… Again, this is usually due to being human.
Most dog owners and parents are probably having a great time being dog owners and parents.
To explain what’s going on requires an actual reading of the article, but a quick summary (as best as I understand) would be…
Villages in Pakistan near high altitudes need high altitude ice (glaciers and mountain ice) to build up over the winter, and slowly melt in the summer to provide water for farming and daily life.
Due to climate change, the ice on the mountains aren’t building up as much in the winter, and are melting too fast in the summer.
There is a tradition in those villages to move ice to higher altitudes on the mountain, and mix it with rock and coal. This does a few things, it provides a seed that captures rain and creates a foundation for the glaciers to form, and slows the melt so they build up bigger over time.
There seems to be some question about if this actually works, or if it’s just ritual, but since the claim is that it takes decades for the process to work, we don’t really have a lot of evidence either way yet.
These villages are losing members because they can’t farm anymore, this feels like a last ditch attempt based on old customs to get their way of life back. It’s unclear on the amount of physical effort vs. impact, but it would be interesting to see if this can be applied elsewhere.
In case anyone wasn’t clear, this is for drinking water/waste water systems. Not for cleaning up the ocean.
This sounds like a great, renewable, filter material that can be added (or replace existing filters) to a municipal water treatment plant. There’s serious issues with microplastics getting into drinking water, and this could certainly help with that.
If linux distributions were tools. (sh.itjust.works)
Space (lemmy.zip)
What kind of wearable device do you want? Assuming it will work and feel like you imagine it would
It’s getting cold and so I’m fumbling with my phone and other devices....
Can we take a moment to appreciate Chekov's hair in his early episodes? (startrek.website)
I’ve been rewatching TOS recently, and I noticed that Chekov’s hair had a mind of its own for a while. I took a few screenshots, looked up the story behind it, and made this really quick for anyone like me who wasn’t aware....
Different flag, same ideology (lemmygrad.ml)
"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
Could anyone spare an invite to TV Chaos UK?
I can provide proofs from other sites. Please and thank you in advance!
There is a new horror movie on Hulu that caught my eye. (www.hulu.com)
Brief summary: Sloth goes on murder spree. It is absolutely as ridiculous as you might think and more. Campy and hilarious.
Priorities (lemmy.world)
A glacier baby is born: Mating glaciers to replace water lost to climate change (www.npr.org)
Plant-based filter removes up to 99.9% of microplastics from water (newatlas.com)