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I also prefer thematic instances, but try to find appropriate communities within those instances. Just because it's coming from NASA, doesn't make it astronomy.

Depending on which aspects of the project you think are important and want to discuss there are a few communities here that might be relevant.

Earth Science includes environment, and environmental impact seems to be the most popular talking point so far.

Noise and other forms of pollution are public health issues and there is a local community for that, although I'm not sure it's really a great fit there.

Physics might be another choice due to the fact that a lot of physics is going into the engineering of something that reduces sonic booms.

Or maybe you just need to find the right thematic instance. For example, I'm registered on slrpnk for my climate, energy efficiency, and anarchism fixes.

I'm more interested in the magical appearance of four states in "southeast" Canada than yet another solar eclipse.

Did someone forget to vet the AI's output?

My first thought was "wait, people still think it's psychosomatic?" Then I read the article and realized that they were not referring to people in general, but to actual doctors!

It never fails to amaze -- and annoy! -- me how often simple curiosity and wide-ranging reading leaves me better informed than many actual professionals. It's almost like they got their education and training, then stopped engaging.

Anyway, rant over. I'm glad there are people out there taking things seriously and I hope you continue to meet with success in your treatment.

No, that's not what I was thinking, but that sounds like a decent idea. Maybe a better idea than just simple labels representing the facing sphere.

That's what 3D printing is for...

I think for maximum uselessness, they should not be overlapping spheres, but deform at the interface, like soap bubbles or rubber balls. As long as the spheres are the same size and modelled with the same "surface tension" or "elasticity", the "intersection" of two sets would then be a circular interface with an area proportional to what would otherwise be an overlap (I think). If the spheres have different sizes or are modelled with different surface tension or elasticity, one would "intrude" into the other.

Multiple sets would have increasingly complex shapes that may or not also create volumes external to the deformed spheres but still surrounded by the various interfaces.

Time to break out the mathematics of bubbles and foam. This data ain't gonna obscure itself!

Might there actually be utility to something like this? Scrunch the spheres together but make invisible everything that is not an interface and label the faces accordingly. I suppose the same could be said of the shape described by overlapping. (Jesus, you'd think I was high or something. Just riffing.)

This is my first exposure to a plain text Venn diagram. Genius.

When we moved from the city to the middle of nowhere, our commute went from 8 km to 22 km each way. It still took about 20 minutes. But "rush hour" was the occasional herd of deer or elk instead of a bunch of drivers who were either too aggressive or too passive. A "traffic jam" was one vehicle, ours, waiting for a piece of farm equipment to move out of the way a few times a year instead of the weekly transformation from roadway to parking lot.

Even when I switched over to driving school bus, I could count on one hand the number of other vehicles I interacted with each week.

It's impossible to express how much that improved our mental states.

Thanks. Sometimes overviews are the most important things to create. It's tough to know where to start without a map!

I read the introduction (linked page) in detail and skimmed the next two chapters. That's not enough to form a concrete opinion, but plenty to judge this worthy of my reading list.

I read that as:

For decades, Nestle has been patenting milk proteins.

They've been doing it for a long time, not somehow getting extra-long patents.

My favourite is the idea that it takes time to build out the "infrastructure" that allows for life. Basically, no supernovae, no life, not enough supernovae, extremely low probability of life. Even if that doesn't put Earth's life near the leading edge, we may be on the leading edge of technological civilizations.