{"id":114096,"date":"2024-10-14T16:48:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114096"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:48:54","slug":"hackaday-links-october-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114096","title":{"rendered":"Hackaday Links: October 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>So far, food for astronauts hasn\u2019t exactly been haute cuisine. Freeze-dried cereal cubes, squeezable tubes filled with what amounts to baby food, and meals reconstituted with water from a fuel cell don\u2019t seem like meals to write home about. And from the sound of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailygalaxy.com\/2024\/10\/asteroid-material-food-source-astronauts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research into turning asteroids into astronaut food<\/a>, things aren\u2019t going to get better with space food anytime soon. The work comes from Western University in Canada and proposes that carbonaceous asteroids like the recently explored Bennu be converted into edible biomass by bacteria. The exact bugs go unmentioned, but when fed simulated asteroid bits are said to produce a material similar in texture and appearance to a \u201ccaramel milkshake.\u201d Having grown hundreds of liters of bacterial cultures in the lab, we agree that liquid cultures spun down in a centrifuge look tasty, but if the smell is any indication, the taste probably won\u2019t live up to expectations. Still, when a 500-meter-wide chunk of asteroid can produce enough nutritionally complete food to sustain between 600 and 17,000 astronauts for a year without having to ship it up the gravity well, concessions will likely be made. We expect that this won\u2019t apply to the nascent space tourism industry, which for the foreseeable future will probably build its customer base on deep-pocketed thrill-seekers, a group that\u2019s not known for its ability to compromise on creature comforts.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of billionaires, there\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/3487339\/ai-to-go-nuclear-data-center-deals-say-its-inevitable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of buzz in the news lately<\/a> about using small modular nuclear reactors to power things like cryptocurrency mines and AI data centers. We suspect this trend has as much to do with tech-bro street cred as it does with saving the planet from the extreme power requirements of these endeavors. But as cool as it would be to put on a black turtleneck and cut the ribbon at the first nuke-powered server farm, how much cooler would it be to break a bottle of champagne on the prow of <a href=\"https:\/\/yachtstyle.co\/nuclear-power-is-the-new-wave-in-yachting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">your very own nuclear-powered superyacht<\/a>? Cool enough, apparently, that none other than Lloyd\u2019s Register, the storied maritime and shipping concern that started in a London coffeehouse in 1760, is starting to think about what nuclear power means to the maritime world, especially for commercial shipping but also for the ultimate in pleasure craft. While it\u2019s true that nuclear-powered vessels have been plying the seas for the better part of a century now, the factors that justify the massive up-front expense have so far limited the viable use cases to nation-states looking to project power and with the ability to create unlimited amounts of money at will. The need for a yacht that can cruise the world ocean for years on end without refueling isn\u2019t clear, but perhaps that\u2019s missing the point. After all, we\u2019ve already seen a tech billionaire build a company to make rockets so he can go to Mars, so it\u2019s not unthinkable that some billionaire will take his yacht nuclear just for the flex.<\/p>\n<p>For various reasons, we\u2019ve done a lot of articles on space topics over the years, despite the fact that getting the technical details that we assume our readers crave as much as we do isn\u2019t easy. One resource we\u2019ve come to depend on is <a href=\"https:\/\/space.skyrocket.de\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gunter\u2019s Space Page<\/a>, which is a treasure trove of information on just about everything that\u2019s ever gone into space, including the stuff that tried but didn\u2019t make it. This is one of those no-nonsense sites that doesn\u2019t have a lot of cruft messing things up and just serves up the details you need. Want to see <a href=\"https:\/\/space.skyrocket.de\/doc_chr\/lau1982.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every launch in 1982<\/a>? Need a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/space.skyrocket.de\/directories\/astronauts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">everyone who has ever flown to space<\/a>? Gunter has you covered. Fair warning, though; there are plenty of rabbit holes to fall down on this site, as well as Gunter\u2019s other sites on <a href=\"http:\/\/usnavy.skyrocket.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Navy ships<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/loco.skyrocket.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">steam locomotives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, another indispensable resource is Grant Sanderson\u2019s wonderful \u201c3Blue1Brown,\u201d a YouTube channel dedicated to showing how math works. There\u2019s plenty of crossover between demographics for Hackaday and 3B1B, so chances are good that you\u2019ve seen Grant\u2019s amazing work, and if you\u2019re like us, you\u2019ve wondered exactly how he goes about creating those wonderful animations. Well, wonder no more \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rbu7Zu5X1zI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this in-depth video<\/a> dives into Manim, the custom math animation library Grant created to make his signature look. If you\u2019ve ever wondered what\u2019s going on behind the scenes with such fascinating videos as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how complex Fourier series can draw anything<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">why pi hides inside the collisions of bouncing blocks<\/a>, you need to check this one out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rbu7Zu5X1zI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2024\/10\/13\/hackaday-links-october-13-2024\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, food for astronauts hasn\u2019t exactly been haute cuisine. 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