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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry you're getting down voted


lots of replies from folks unclear on what the diffraction limit means, atomic resonances, etc.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161094-a-single-atom-is-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-this-stunning-photo/

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Parent didn't say resolve, they said see


you can't resolve stars but you can most certainly see them.

Light up a single atom enough and you can see it (unclear if this works with a dark adjusted naked eye or if a long exposure is required): https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161094-a-single-atom-is-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-this-stunning-photo/

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

A single atom of gold is far too small for any photon in the visible spectrum to interact with.

That's incorrect


single atoms can, and do, interact with optical photons.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19671 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13716

And the entire field of super resolution microscopy relies on small things (e.g., molecules) interacting with light.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wait until you hear about the Arctic circle...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

https://elest.io/open-source/immich

No experience with them so can't at all vouch for them, but it looks like there are providers who will do this.

I self host Immich with an off site backup (=raspberry pi at in-laws house, all over WireGuard). Can't recommend Immich enough!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are we talking fediveese hackers? You know, the socialist-furries-with-UNIX-socks hackers?

Those folks hate cars, not trains. I don't think we need to worry.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 39 points 1 week ago (19 children)

The energy from nuclear reactions can be astonishingly large (compared to, say, chemical reactions).

But atoms are really, really, really small.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Concert attendance is growing exponentially, with the number of attendees projected to be greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe sometime in late October.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

(...I think you may have gotten whooshed...)

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