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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again

i just did some napkin maths, and currently, it is approximately 1 light day away from us (23.148 hrs, no relativistic consideration). For perspective, our nearest star is 4.25 light years away, and that is roughly 302.319161 times further than voyager. with voyager speed, it will reach centauri (not actually heading towards it, but just for distance perspective) in about in roughly 14511.319728 years (actually less than this).

edit - messed up the calc a bit, 302... should have been 1608.346293 and 14511... shoul dhave been 77200.622084, explanation in replies - root of errors - typo

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"Touch grass"

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touch is a cmd to make (or update the mtime of) a file in unix like operating systems. I do not know much about the latter, it seems to be green scaline triangle like thingy earthlings used to grow a lot for not much reason. sometimes, it was also harvested, where some varieties of it produced some seed like thingies (not exactly sure what these seeds are, the seeds that i know of within my database is the starting precursor for randomness in some encryption algorithms)

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I know nothing about computers but this does not add up

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avif is better than it in almost all ways, and jpex xl is even better than that (but not about gifs i think)

webp is essentially a webm file (which is mkv with codec restrictions(vp8/9 and ogg vorbis or opus))

avif is av1 encoded files in a webp like container (but not webm afaik)

jpeg xl is a format made specifically for images

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If i am not wrong, and iirc, they have different lens systems as compared to humans (or other land dwelling beings). For us, light goes from air to a lens made of "watery" substance and then through a (different) "watery" fluid in our eyes, and then to the back. whenever you have refractive index changes (air and water have different indices(water is ~1.33)), light bends, and so, the way light would refract differently, or in other words, the angle at which "focuses" (not the current optical term here, but works in a colloquial sense, angle of cone of focus would be better) is different if you have air-watery*-watery system vs water-watery*-watery system. since fish live in water mostly, they develop for the lattery system (since most of the system is water esque, there is not much refractive difference which would bend light at larger angles), so they would have to use a more "powerful" (not correct again, better would be shorter focus) lenses, or else there eyes and eye sockets would have to be large. so if they come above water, these "powerful" lenses would resolve the focus spot before the back of eye (so they would be myopic). inverse happens with land dwelling beings going in water.

Amphibians (and some other "beings") have some special "arrangements". iirc, some frogs have an extra layer of "transparent eyelid" like thingy, that they close underwater, which gives the "additiional focussing power" required to resolve.

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Victory for students as universities admit errors caused by flawed AI plagiarism detection.

I am sorry, but we have banned aticles from www.utubepublisher.in. for more info, check the pinned post on community homepage, but in short, they are a content farm - which reposts articles from other sources. There are valid reasons for reposting stuff, but at least proper credit should be done. in short - they do bad quality reposts.

I am not removing your post, because this is likely not made with mal intent (just lack of awareness). You can still edit your post, and link to a better, or possibly original source.

from quick searching, i found - https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-win-plagiarism-appeals-over-generative-ai-detection-tool

not sure if this was first or original to report, but this was made 5 days prior. I made quick glances, and content appears to be similar. Again, it is possible that 2 outlets cover same topic, and do independent reporting, but www.utubepublisher.in has a poor record.

if you can find a better source than what i liked, then please switch to that, or switch with this one (you can edit post and url as well)