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Thread: Cool Science thread
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10-12-2021, 06:51 AM #1151
Cool Science thread
Aurora Borealis thread, JONG !
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...d.php?t=289508
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10-12-2021, 07:28 AM #1152
Goddamnit! I knew it had to exist but couldn't find the right thread.
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10-12-2021, 07:55 AM #1153
Shit! I missed my alert last night
And it was perfectly clear hereAim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
http://tim-kirchoff.pixels.com/
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10-12-2021, 04:11 PM #1154
James Webb telescope arrives in French Guiana. December launch!
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...ter-sea-voyage
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10-12-2021, 08:01 PM #1155
The logistics of moving that thing to South America must be insane.
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10-12-2021, 11:53 PM #1156
Webb, the proverbial "all eggs in one basket".
Fingers crossed that the launch goes well...and hopefully the frenchies are not so pissed about the Australian sub deal that they decide to sabotage their own launch...
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
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10-13-2021, 08:12 AM #1157
If Jeff Bezo kills Captain Kirk there's gonna be trouble.
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10-14-2021, 02:02 PM #1158
Yeah, I haven't watched the videos yet. Probably will tonight just to check it out.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...ross-the-ocean
A Custom-Made “Suitcase”
As a one-of-a-kind machine, Webb required a colossal, specially designed “suitcase” known as STTARS, short for Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea. STTARS weighs about 168,000 pounds (76,000 kilograms). It is 18 feet (5.5 meters) high, 15 feet (4.6 meters) wide, and 110 feet (33.5 meters) long — about twice the length of a semi-trailer.
This custom container was outfitted for any extreme or unexpected conditions Webb could have encountered during travel. In designing, building, and testing STTARS, engineers carefully tested how to best protect the container from heavy rainfall and other environmental factors.L.
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10-16-2021, 07:31 AM #1159
No idea what the implications of this are but the discovery process sounded pretty cool
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14720
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-ast...r-solar-system
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10-16-2021, 08:16 AM #1160
That's very cool. If all stars generate a magnetic tunnel that attenuates radio frequency radiation it would have interesting implications for Fermi's paradox. If this is somehow unique the implications might be even weirder.
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10-16-2021, 09:54 AM #1161
Was that suggested somewhere in the paper? Attenuation might be one thing, refraction another, but afaik.astronomers haven't had problem logging in very distant radio emitters, like over 13b light years away?
Not a astrogeezer, just coincidentally overheard part of a lecture/discussion about Fermi/Drake/AI/GreatFilter/etc the other day. There was an interesting proposition regarding singularity (AI) and SI. That led to the notion that a civilisation attaining singularity might go "dark": as it does not need to expand to other systems/galaxies due to energy independence, it might just resort to a local simulation. In short, why travel when you can continue an indefinite existence expanding inwards instead of outwards? Only when a star system would be compromised that "entity" could split/move to other viable systems...or stay out of star systems altogether.
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
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10-16-2021, 10:13 AM #1162
I didn't see any mention of it in there, and certainly "implications" are easier than conclusions. We're obviously not living in a giant Faraday cage or anything, but thinking of SETI, it might not take much to tweak really, really long distance radio waves. If the model could be improved until the effects could be backed out (or if that's proven necessary, whether it's possible or not) it might change a lot of older data. Considering how close it might be, maybe SETI data might become useful in such efforts--eventually? Interesting stuff, anyway.
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10-21-2021, 10:10 PM #1163
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10-22-2021, 11:35 AM #1164Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
http://tim-kirchoff.pixels.com/
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10-22-2021, 12:41 PM #1165
This pig-human kidney thing really needs video to be fully appreciated
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/doctor...-transplant/#x
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10-22-2021, 12:50 PM #1166
Amazing science. Amazing contribution from the family.
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11-06-2021, 08:06 PM #1167
penguin mummies...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...ica-180975965/
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11-11-2021, 08:52 AM #1168
Cool Science thread
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11-11-2021, 09:25 AM #1169Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
http://tim-kirchoff.pixels.com/
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11-11-2021, 09:33 AM #1170
That's nutty!
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11-14-2021, 05:43 PM #1171
Ummm ....
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11-14-2021, 07:09 PM #1172
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11-30-2021, 01:57 PM #1173
Part cool, part terrifying:
Scientists Build the First-Ever Living Robots That Can Reproduce
https://scitechdaily.com/xenobots-sc...can-reproduce/
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11-30-2021, 05:56 PM #1174Registered User
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Seriously.
I'm fine with AI overlords, but FUCK NO to BioBot overlords.
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11-30-2021, 06:04 PM #1175
I'm glad to see some of them turn right. For a minute it looked like they'd invented nano-NASCAR. That would be sad.
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