#starfish space

[nuadox]

AI detects early warning sounds of lithium-ion battery failures

- By Nuadox Crew -

NIST researchers have developed an AI-based method to detect early warning sounds from lithium-ion batteries before they catch fire.

The system identifies the distinct "click-hiss" sound produced by a breaking safety valve—caused by internal pressure buildup—just minutes before thermal runaway occurs.

By training a machine learning algorithm on audio from 38 battery failures and generating over 1,000 unique samples, the team achieved a 94% detection accuracy.

This technology could lead to specialized fire alarms for homes, offices, and battery-dense locations, offering critical time for evacuation and reducing fire risks.

Read more at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Research paper: Tam, W. , Chen, J. , Tang, W. , Tong, Q. , FANG, H. and Putorti Jr., A. (2024), Development of a Robust Early-Stage Thermal Runaway Detection Model for Lithium-ion Batteries, 13th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, Daegu, KR, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=958183 (Accessed November 14, 2024)

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Starfish Space Raises $29M: Starfish Space, a Seattle-based startup, has raised $29 million to develop orbital servicing vehicles for missions serving the U.S. Space Force.

[marbleboa]

(narrator voice) This is one of Sakurai's Special Moves, where he Drops That Bony Ass

[sysig]

*You’re starting to feel very sleepy... (Patreon)

[mindless-mars]

found a galaxy in a fishtank

[themoonunderstoodmydadjokes]

Should be wrapping myself around you and drifting off to sleep

[twogeeseinatrenchcoat]

Only in Children of Time would you ever find a space battle between hyper-intelligent spiders and octopi with an AI stored in a shit ton of ants with a god complex controlling the spider's ship.

Gonna go on a small rant here.

Adrian Tchaikovsky writes other species/alien species so well. Like, so well. He has ideas that are so out there I would never even think of them, let alone know how to incorporate it. He's just so good at writing something so entirely different from anything people are used to, and I love that. It makes everything in the books 100x better, and much more intriguing.

He also does a great job with the science-y side of it. He manages to fit in all of this random information about cell structures and DNA and technology and how the different species think, and it's seamlessly incorporated with the rest of the story. Nothing gets bogged down by a random bunch of information about how different the cells of the animals on this new planet are, because it fits. He's not just putting it there for "oh hey, it's a sci-fi book, gotta have some science-y mumbo jumbo in there," no, it actually adds to the story. It serves to show just how different, how alien everything is.

Go read the books, I'd recommend them for anyone who enjoys sci-fi and can get through fairly wordy books. They're around 500-600 pages each.

[dirty-spiced-chai]

VESSEL

SLEEP TOKEN

[silveragelovechild]

I just came across a reference to a Japanese movie from the 1950s - “Warning from Space”. It was released in January, 1956. It featured starfish-like aliens that want to help Earth.

The aliens look remarkably like Starro the Conqueror from DC Comics. It first appeared in The Brave and the Bold#28 (March 1960) which also introduced the Justice League of America.

I wonder if either Gardner Fox or Mike Sekowsky saw Warning from Space and swiped its design?

[stars-mischief-archive]

todays brain worms~~

though.. reading the title...

it kinda makes me want to dance with my moonlight.. and my sunshine.. and my jellyfish..

do you think they'd dance with me if i asked? hehe~

[milapurr]

Pointed at the Lagoon Nebula (?) (there's so many in the area and I had a hard time telling what this was other than: ooh there's a nebula and a cluster here!)

Orion StarBlast II 20 mm eyepiece || Google Pixel Pro 7

1, 2 and 5x Zoom used!

[wheeloffortune-design]

there's already too many Steves in media and I made the mistake of naming a new character that while I found a better name and damnit it stayed.

(thankfully it's not a hot guy that can be shipped with another hot guy. this Steve is a coffee machine.)

(but a luxury brand coffee machine so maybe yeah he's hot.)

[starfishlikestoread]

just got to S1E45, Rose's Scabbard. every single line out of Pearl's mouth in this episode just stunlocks me knowing the truth of it all.

like the utterly anguished "I was the one she told everything!" - I'd go a little ballistic here too

[positron2399]

The Kehhar (Whispers in the Stars)

The Kehhar have a hard time grasping a day-night cycle as they came from a tidally-locked world that orbited a red dwarf. They evolved to be ground-dwelling filter-feeders/herbivores, eating aerial plankton and the near-black flora that’s better described as slime molds than plants. They also don’t call themselves “kehhar,” The Juggerknight and Brunniee call them that as they communicate with their bioluminescent displays. The reason they have such displays is due to them evolving from tropical orb-weaver-sized “bugs” as both a mating display and a warning to potential predators that they’d promptly die after consumption. Said macrofauna only evolved to their current sizes due to the Juggerknight slamming into their world over twice the speed of light, this also caused a massive ocean to form in the shape of a pupil. They average around .7 m in length and .2 meters in height. And they reproduce via budding like sponges or hydras.

They don’t mate either, while they do swap genes, this is believed to have evolved to increase genetic diversity as this gene swapping between members of the same and closely related species is present in all but two species, those being deep-sea microbes. It’s also of important note that their “genetic” system is closer to that of prions than DNA or RNA, as in, their information is stored on gigantic self-replicating “super proteins.” Albeit much tougher than most crap on earth thanks to the lovely dose of UV from their sun as well as their magnetosphere being fucking 12.3 gauss. Hence how it kept its hydrogen/nitrogen atmosphere, well that and their world is a super-earth with twice the gravity of our world and an atmosphere 7 times as dense, which allowed for aerial plankton, land-dwelling “sponges” and other filter feeders, and even sky “whales.” Though the largest sky whales only exceed Quetzalcoatlus in length and wingspan. ( Yes, I know the how protein-based life thing likely isn’t very plausible, but they have a 2ish meter-tall crystalline guardian that served in the Vietnam War, an event that took place millions of years before them)

It’s also of important note that the kehhar are a very stagnant people, having an information age comparable to that of the early 2000s in terms of technology, granted just as radiation-resistant as them. Granted, rather than using spoiled plankton juice in a hyper-capitalist world, they used solar, nuclear, and wind energies in a heavily caste based feudalist system, granted, there were capitalist and communist nations, but they just didn’t have too much power thanks to the meddlings of the monarchs. Also, they weren’t a planet of hats, kehhars had different loves, hates, and political views from each other. Some working as world-renowned actors, wage-to-wage restaurant cooks, doctors, miners, farmers and so much more.

As for their generation ships, they’re a gift from an allied species called “ven,” also named by The Juggerknight as they communicate via radio waves. Though they weren’t originally supposed to be gifts, they were warships meant to “cleanse” the world of the kehhar, but over time the vens “hearts” changed. Still, the space habitats of the kehhar had all of their advanced weapons like antimatter and sonic bombs (not that the sonic weapons would work) and replaced them with “primitive” weapons such as “slow” suicidal super nuke drones, cannons that shoot telephone pole sized tungsten rods, and particle beans. These space habitats are also humungous, being around 6 km long (including their thrusters), each housing many dense cities, farmland (though most livestock is simply pets as meat is now lab-grown), and wildlife reserves. While they can and do use solar energy, the habitats are primarily powered and propelled via fusion and a maximum speed of .098C

Feedback and Critique welcome (^_^)

[selkra-souza]

Three alien roommates sharing an evening in the living room of their starship before bedtime.

[theinkchild]

out there episode 25

[rosyredlipstick]

i was so excited for my vacation to hang with my family and eat good food and get a tan but also to get some novel writing done and just really take the time where i can really focus in on what matters and get my first draft together and yeah instead i started a new fic