IIRC Wolfram had a blog post about how everything is developing a data/computational angle - he called it Computational X a few years ago now. Fitting they would call this Computational Astronomy.

Omg. In Nassim Taleb words, you merciless imbecile. Wolfram calling computational X means nothing. The term computational existed decades ago and within the realm of computational science people tended to joke about computation X y and z. Just because wolfram has a media publisher that merciless imbeciles subscribe who are ignorant towards word uses, doesn’t mean he is the inventor of cellular Automata, complexity theory and computational science.

weird - can't find anything from an australian source about this

niels bohr dissolved the nobel prize medals of colleagues in it and left it on his office shelf during wwII - the committee recast them after the war https://www.aip.org/history-programs/news/invisible-prize

Awesome - this is the website of the Te Awamutu space centre. "The Space Centre is a privately-funded project run by Dave Owen (Space Dave) and his family." Te Awamutu is a town with ~13,000 people. Live your best life Dave! kia kaha ;-)

it's a nice human scale unit - a bit like some countries still cling to inches as a length measure.

yes - i'm not a programmer but i need to translate business rules for my contractors to build. it helps us 'meet in the middle' when discussing abstract things.

moreon chem: https://www.understanding-cement.com/zero-carbon-cement.html

currently use a lot of rare metals like platinum. inc vol of fuel cells will drive up price of fairly inelastic supply of rare metals. or require step change in anode/cathode catalysts to cheaper metals

Not all fuel cells use platinum, and those that do use very small amounts of it: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bosch-ev-fuel-cells-less-...

> The major auto supplier, which recently partnered with Sweden's Powercell, is working on a new fuel cell architecture that, according to Reuters' report, will "use only as much platinum as a diesel catalytic converter."

silica dessicant. chemists use it in their dessicators to keep things dry - pink is dry, blue is 'full' (i think, it's been 25 years...). i think it's a low level cobalt doping and as the silica matrix swells with water absorption it changes the UV absorption and the colour changes. or something like that.