/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15414210

>>15315596
>Helium-3
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>According to one estimate, state-of-the-art transistors cost ten billion dollars per kilogram! Silicon, from which the transistors are made, is the second-most-abundant element in Earth’s crust and can be purchased for under two dollars per kilogram. Our transistor-manufacturing technology, therefore, imposes a five-billion-fold markup on the raw materials price for silicon.
And you thought software companies price gouged you

>>14820886
>I wonder how you'd make it known to an unknown future people that the objects were even an archive to begin with, they might think "wow ancient coasters"
just make the first line of text readable by the naked eye and have each subsequent line diminish in size till you need a lens to read it

>>14720372
>oil industry is dead due to fusion
I didn't know building Sea Dragons and nuclear ssto lunar shuttles defeats the Lawson criterion lmao

>>14647775
fake news, lambda-CDM has never been healthier