The whole simulation thing … so a confirmably smooth transition to a limit that, inside the frame of reference at that limit, doesn’t look any different until tidal forces become a thing, compared to the outside frame of reference, which also remains smooth… somehow shows the kind of system discontinuity that … the reach they’re making is just an assertion that assumes that the system can be broken and give us what? A new VC scam in FTL?
I’m not sure Musk or his fanbois understand how relentlessly a universe of constrained causation works. The constraints are local but the “system” doesn’t break. It’s not alive, inherently, it’s not stitching things back together post-facto. We have the receipts. Or we will until Starlink breaks our ability to observe.
Telescope time on the James Webb Telescope has been allocated.
Some of the proposals have clever or revealing titles. e.,g “Tell Me How I’m Supposed To Breathe With No Air: Measuring the Prevalence and Diversity of M-Dwarf Planet Atmospheres”.
Not the same water, but I had a bottle of similar “alkalized” water while off on a work trip last year. The claims on the bottle seemed a bit wild, about how it was “clinically proven to be better at hydrating” while also be “99.9% pure” and such:
I find that baking soda can help with my asthma, and if taken before exercise, can help avoid my migraines. But I have no idea what these people are doing.
That was my reaction too. In fact, I think I pretty much said those exact words to the co-worker who handed me the bottle.
If I recall from the brief research I did at the time, it basically boils down to most test strips needing a minimum amount of dissolved solids, and any highly filtered water will have slow/imprecise reactions on them.
Of course:
not that much different from other filtered water
you really don’t want to drink a lot of water that’s been filtered too much, so all those claims of “purity” are a bit suspicious
it’s doubtful the ph difference from other waters is really going to have much impact at all once it hits your stomach
the marketer who designed all the blurbs for this stuff should be strung up as a warning to anyone else who would go down this path…
