Since the second law of infodynamics appears to be manifesting universally and is, in fact, a cosmological necessity, we could conclude that this points to the fact that the entire universe appears to be a simulated construct.

"But I stress that the universe is mainly made of nothing, that something is the exception. Nothing is the rule. That darkness is a commonplace; it is light that is the rarity." - Carl Sagan

Yeah some of it is a little confusing to comprehend. But, agreed, the numbers in this study are amazing. Higher than anything I've seen to date.

Their system uses a natural gel to absorb moisture out of relatively dry air of humidity levels of 15 to 30 percent. Other systems have shown success but only in high humidity of 70 percent and higher.

Thanks!

Any info on how much water, and if the gel "wears out"?

If you can grab drinking water out of the air, and wifi from the village Starlink, rural third world life can improve quite a bit!

Sure that's a great idea, but at the rate we're going, first world will be needing this tech too in a not distant future.

California, New Mexico, and Utah would like some water now thank you. I don't know if you consider them "first world" or not.

I was being more nuanced.

California should be the world's leading pioneer on desalinization, but nope. So maybe they can figure this out instead? (not holding my breath)

I was being reductive. They should be on the forefront of water management. Didn't the state government cancel a few very large desalination plants recently? After Lakes Powell and Meade and the Colorado River dry up and after the snow caps melt and while precipitation stays reduced and the aquifers dry up and sinkholes appear, what do you think will happen to California agriculture and Silicon Valley? The lush valley turns into desert. How times change ..

In the ice caps melt situation, I very much doubt that California will be alone in the needing of fresh water

Yikes, I meant to say the snow caps in the mountains. I've changed that now. But yeah, ice caps melting are really a question of when rather than if at this point sadly.

does California still have snow caps?

Last time I was there it did. But now, I guess not :(.

https://news3lv.com/news/local/lake-meads-source-hows-the-sn...

California is easy: just cut down all the almond trees, that will buy a few decades of runway.

Not sure on the wearing out, but agreed - these developments are encouraging to say the least.

Good point. Still a nice upgrade from >70 or >90 systems that aren't helpful unless in specific conditions. Also promising on the materials side -- cheap

"It seemed as though there's something about either the illness of schizophrenia or possibly medications that causes them to be at really high risk of mortality."

There are pretty consistent new astronomy discoveries these days, it seems, but I think this one is significant. Being able to study this one closely could lead to discoveries of many more black holes that are relatively close to us.

[pg 39] "From now onwards space by itself and time by itself will recede completely to become mere shadows and only a type of union of the two will still stand independently on its own."