[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I realised I have a sort of explanatory image at hand.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

It has a part that is embedded in a mitochondrial membrane and works as a rotor. The other part is sticking out from the membrane and is responsible for synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate. An off-axis part of the rotor pushes the stator, it changes shape and pushes ADP and phosphate together, until they fuse to ATP.

To make the rotor move, it makes use of membrane potential. One side of the membrane has a lot more H⁺ (just protons, really) than the other. The excess H⁺ want to go to the other side. The membrane doesn't let them through. It is hydrophobic on the inside, so it does't let through anything charged (like H⁺) or polar (like water). This is the potential and it has quite a lot of energy. ATP synthase lets the H⁺ through by binding them to the rotor in the membrane in a particular place and releases them in another in such a way that forces the rotor to turn almost a full turn before they can leave and stops it from rotating the other way. As mentioned, the rotation is transfered to the stator, changing its shape and thus creating ATP. As a side note, multiple H⁺ are bound on the rotor along its circumference, so each rotation is powered by the potential energy of multiple protons.

Of course, it's a bit more complicated than that, but I don't think there's anything downright wrong or misleading in what I wrote. I hope I managed to make it understandable. Also, I recommend animations of the synthase on youtube.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

One suggestion for securing your base before leaving is to make a construction tank. Tanks can be driven remotely and have equipment grid. You can put personal roboport in there and use it as your clumsy impersonation for building outside your roboport coverage from anywhere.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago

And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn't say.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago

Well, if you want to head that way, there's Etruscan shrew. Less than 2 grams of weight and 4 cm of length.

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Hello,

let's try and make a cog wheel on the Canvas. Space is getting limited, but I believe we still might squeeze in.

Here's a template (after moving to a new area): https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=921&y=276&zoom=1&tu=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgbA1i7V.png&tw=43&tx=536&ty=339&ts=ONE_TO_ONE

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by lemming@sh.itjust.works to c/factorio@lemmy.world

Hello,

let's try and make a cog wheel on the Canvas. Space is getting limited, but I believe we still might squeeze in.

Here's a template (after moving to a new area): https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=921&y=276&zoom=1&tu=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgbA1i7V.png&tw=43&tx=536&ty=339&ts=ONE_TO_ONE

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 50 points 4 months ago

Bad title. Settings that actually do something are 0 (normal), 1 (compact) and 2 (touch). You can also do that in settings, I think.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

It should be said that this is from Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness by Zach Wienersmith.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 62 points 4 months ago

I very quickly checked wikipedia, because I couldn't easily identify the extra one. It lists all 16 of the 10 commandments... The table looks like different branches of christianity bundle some of them together (mostly various coveting) or don't even consider the first and last a commandment, so they always only count to ten. So it's an easy mistake to make.

But the fact that they couldn't even count the paragraphs is riddiculous.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 72 points 8 months ago

Floppy discs are like Jesus. They died to become the icon of saving.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

Have you read the link? It doesn't say thay that analysing figerprints is less powerfull than was known, but more. It describes previously unknown connection between fingerprints of different fingers of a single person. This could indicate, for example, that two crimes were probably commited by the same person even when not a single identical fingerprint was found on both sites.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago

Hang on, I was under the impression nobody actually thought singularities existed, only that our current math and physics isn't developed enough to get any reasonable results in such extreme places?

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