This would be an awesome application towards waste disposal and recycling! Take a huge hunk of garbage, and try and rearrange all the atoms of it into something that can be reused as opposed to us leaving these in landfills. However it does make you wonder, would movie aliens really invade earth for water if they could just use a laser to create water from any other substance using its atoms and molecules?
Our science fiction us based on what we know and what we can dream. I think our modern dismissal of ancient alchemy has probably discouraged scifi writers away from scenarios where any other conceivable alchemy prevents the necessity of hunting resources across the cosmos. Sure, you can write anything in fiction, but you do things For Plot.
Iff this laser trickery worked permanently, then you'd basically have a prototype Star Trek replicator right there. Feed garbage in, out comes something useful.
If the laser trickery worked temporarily (say, on the timescales of minutes), then perhaps this could be a small step towards creating Star Trek style holograms. Vent inert gas in, reshape it into interesting stuff, pulse it up from time to time to keep it from decaying.
Though I imagine sensory and computational requirements of such a thing would hit the limit of what's physically possible in our universe.
Huge caveat if you read the article: “And no matter how successful the strategy is, these altered properties will persist only as long as you apply the control pulse.”
As long as you keep your garbage under billions on constantly active perfectly timed lasers, it works!
> Take a huge hunk of garbage, and try and rearrange all the atoms of it into something that can be reused as opposed to us leaving these in landfills.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics would like to see you after class.
Ozone generators are a safety hazard to other passengers so I’m glad they are banning the use of those, the EPA states that ozone can:
“ When inhaled, ozone can damage the lungs. Relatively low amounts can cause chest pain, coughing, shortness of breath and throat irritation. Ozone may also worsen chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and compromise the ability of the body to fight respiratory infections.”
I agree they could be mistaken by another passenger not familiar with oxygen concentrators, which is a good argument for avoiding vigilantism in general.
If you have concerns let the flight crew know quietly, and they can find out politely if the device is within policy (which oxygen concentrators of course are).
Oxygen concentrators are allowed, but they have to be FAA approved, you have to have a prescription, and they have to be battery powered (you can't plug them into the seat power).
> Ozone generators are a safety hazard to other passengers so I’m glad they are banning the use of those
It sounds like they're banning people from bringing them on board, on just from using them. Also there are other types of ozone generators beyond just air the ones used in air filters. There are lots of folks who are mixing ozone with blood and injecting it back into themselves in an attempt to cure covid. Whatever the risks of doing this are, someone having the machine that does this isn't going to harm other people on a flight.
> It sounds like they're banning people from bringing them on board, on just from using them
Why do they need to bring it on board if they aren't going to use it? Given it's a safety risk if used and has no approved therapeutic use the rule seems fine.
> lots of folks who are mixing ozone with blood and injecting it back into themselves in an attempt to cure covid
> Why do they need to bring it on board if they aren't going to use it?
No checked luggage? To use at the other side? To deliver to someone else?
Air travel is horrible enough already with the BS restrictions (eg water bottles). Let’s not encourage making it even worse. Airlines are already screwed enough right now without putting off the few people that are still travelling with even more restrictions and surcharges.
"Airlines are already screwed enough right now without putting off the few people that are still travelling with even more restrictions and surcharges."
Evidently American Airlines would disagree with you since they are imposing this rule themselves.
Where's this nuttiness coming from? Ozone is harmful to cells, that's why it's used for water purification. This is just a fancy version of the bleach injection, isn't it.
FYI, here's what Trump meant by "inject disinfectant into the body": https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2020-04-20/aytu-bio.... These folks inject UV light source into the body via the breathing tube. He never said "bleach" - that was made up by reporters.
No, it objectively isn't. The context of Trump's comments was a presentation by Bill Bryan from the Department of Homeland security on how to fight COVID-19, in which he explicitly discussed that
a) The virus dies quickest in the presence of direct sunlight.
and
b) Readily available household disinfectants are effective at killing the virus. He specifically mentions that bleach and isopropyl alcohol had been tested.
This is the immediate context in which Trump's comments about putting light inside the body and injecting disinfectant were made. There is absolutely no doubt what he meant here. Stop trying to gaslight people.
You're the one gaslighting people, poorly. It is illustrative that you choose to ignore what Trump said immediately prior to the "inject disinfectant into the body" phrase (which, BTW, is what Atyu does - they have a video on YT).
Direct quote: "Suppose we hit the body with ultraviolet light, and you said, that hasn't been checked, but we're gonna test it, and I said suppose you can bring the light inside the body, which you can do, either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you're gonna test that, too". Then he proceeds to talk about "disinfectant, which knocks it out in a minute". Crucially, at no point has Trump ever suggested anything like "injecting bleach", yet thanks to CNN and gullible people like you half the country believes he did.
I think realistically what happened is, Trump was bombarded with suggestions in his daily briefing, as usual, and used a poor choice of words to describe one of the suggestions. Contemporaneous evidence supports this: Atyu announced their work with Cedars Sinai a day or two before that press conference.
But feel free to believe the CNN version. By the way, I have some excellent build-ready swampland in Florida I'd like to sell. Interested?
> Then he proceeds to talk about "disinfectant, which knocks it out in a minute". Crucially, at no point has Trump ever suggested anything like "injecting bleach", yet thanks to CNN and gullible people like you half the country believes he did.
Really? His direct quote is:
"I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that."
He literally asked about injecting disinfectant into the body, referencing and immediately following a briefing that talks about using household disinfectants like bleach and isopropyl alcohol against SARS-Cov-2. You're either being purposefully disingenuous, or completely failing at listening comprehension. Either way, you're clearly not changing your mind here. But maybe I can inform other people that may end up reading your nonsense.
Excel will also take a number with a leading zero and drop it while it converts it from csv, for ex 01234 -> 1234, which is SUPER bad if you are dealing with any sort of IDs to invoices or work orders from outside the company
That is a good occasion to curse Excel (how does it know the number isn't octal, too?) and also curse the person or group that designed a textual coding system consisting of digits with leading zeros. Looking at you, National Drug Code.
It could’ve been someone who performed a sim swap on another in order to leave no trace though, or a prepaid phone number that will be recycled after a year
You missed my point. I clearly explained that I was joking, inside parentheses, and then got serious responses as though I really meant for them to do it.
