Furry Scientists

It has been about six years since M82589933 was proven to be prime. Hope it won't take another six years to find the next one. This also marks the beginning of a new era of GPU supported prime discovery in favor of using Prime95.

The newly found prime has 41024320 digits, all of which you may download here: https://www.mersenne.org/primes/

Thankfully it's not much but I don't think I'll deeply sniff my laundry like they do in detergent commercials anymore lol

For something to last longer than intended out in the harshness of space, I'd call that a major success!

Anything for the 'gram apparently!

An interesting case where trying to make positive change resulted in an unintended consequence

Well that's a problem...

Whether it's 67 or 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec, we're moving pretty fast either way!

I'm mostly sharing this because I just love how the title is a jumble of words to me lol

Edit: Yay they reestablished contact!

https://www.engadget.com/nasa-says-its-reestablished-contact-with-the-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-165728606.html

Well that's creepy! I wish I hadn't seen this before going to bed...

And that is that

"It's important to note that this study doesn't prove that cannabis directly causes these changes or causes health problems."

But it is interesting, if this is your wheelhouse

Because of the range of compounds found, the researchers say that they believe recycled plastics are unfit for most uses and that they don't contribute to a circular material lifecycle.