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The Cool Science Stuff Thread
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http://churchm.ag/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1960s-computer-ad-7.jpg
My dad worked for NCR. He would go to Dayton Ohio for a month sometimes every year. Even in the 60s all the way from England. He came home one year with a slot car track. Would have cost a weeks wages but would have been unobtainable in England at that price. It even came over with us. We had F1 cars. Same fencing. Didn't last long with kids walking over it. Dada hade to use matches in handle for speed governors or he always had to reset cars at each corner. He had a big pistol grip controller. We had thumbs.
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/647/23320529172_c3d70b7987_b.jpg
Got to see cool tools. Looked somewhat like these.
http://securegreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/tube-tester.jpg
http://www.radiomuseum.org/images/radio/telequipment_ltd/oscilloscope_dm_63_1540670.jpg
He was a carpenter. Served as air weapons tech in RAF with 20mm cannons his thing. Operational Training Command flew Vampires out of his base. Yank jets were always making appearances. He liked Sabres very much and was impressed.
http://webspace.webring.com/people/rj/jica-aas/airforce/vamp9.jpg
http://acepilots.com/planes/f86-sabre-prep.jpg
Got NCR job from RAF training on automatic cannons. Back then still mechanical business machines. Job evolved over the years. Eventually it was just replace a board. I think he got bore then with work.
My dad worked for NCR. He would go to Dayton Ohio for a month sometimes every year. Even in the 60s all the way from England. He came home one year with a slot car track. Would have cost a weeks wages but would have been unobtainable in England at that price. It even came over with us. We had F1 cars. Same fencing. Didn't last long with kids walking over it. Dada hade to use matches in handle for speed governors or he always had to reset cars at each corner. He had a big pistol grip controller. We had thumbs.
https://farm1.static.flickr.com/647/23320529172_c3d70b7987_b.jpg
Got to see cool tools. Looked somewhat like these.
http://securegreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/tube-tester.jpg
http://www.radiomuseum.org/images/radio/telequipment_ltd/oscilloscope_dm_63_1540670.jpg
He was a carpenter. Served as air weapons tech in RAF with 20mm cannons his thing. Operational Training Command flew Vampires out of his base. Yank jets were always making appearances. He liked Sabres very much and was impressed.
http://webspace.webring.com/people/rj/jica-aas/airforce/vamp9.jpg
http://acepilots.com/planes/f86-sabre-prep.jpg
Got NCR job from RAF training on automatic cannons. Back then still mechanical business machines. Job evolved over the years. Eventually it was just replace a board. I think he got bore then with work.
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WTF is a spaceport?
WTF is it doing in Alaska??
WTF is it doing in Alaska??
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The local model rocketeers do things a bit bigger than you can buy from Estes.
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Conducting interstellar trade beyond the prying eyes of most people. What else would they be doing in Alaska?
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You'd have thought they could have avoided it by ducking or going around. But noooooo... They had to once again prove that physics is right. Two solid objects cannot exist in the same space at the same time.
And I thought Area 51 was in Nevada!
One says to the bartender, "I would like a mixture of effervescent hydrogen dioxide and some high-concentration solution of ethyl alcohol."
The other says, "Do you know where I can find a hooker?"
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That is where alien technology derived from trade is analysed. Actual entry port for the Earth is Alaska. Those pics Thor posted of the strange antennae are how we communicate with the aliens over interstellar distances. Reason for the high power emissions. All alien tech too to be able to cross such distances.
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Wednesday night, a battalion of 120 astronomers were working at eight observatories on four continents to mobilize in an unprecedented effort to image the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a body named Sagittarius A. By combining observations from points across the globe, they’ll create a virtual observatory the size of Earth itself. The “Event Horizon Telescope,” they call it.
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/05/astronomers-trying-to-take-the-first-picture-of-a-black-hole/
The work at the Event Horizon Telescope aims to pick up that radiation. It will do so by looking towards the black hole at the middle of our milky Way galaxy, which is 26,000 light years from Earth and 4.5 million times as big as our sun.
At such a distance, it's hard to see anything in detail, especially since the object can only be seen at a small angle. But by linking lots of telescopes together, the researchers can see far more fine details.
That work began on 4 April and will run until 14 April. Scientists and computers will then have to pore through that information, looking out for the black hole they hope to see.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...dark-stars-observation-campaign-a7667571.html
hmmm...
Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole out of Galactic Core
Mar. 23, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/strange_offbeat/bizarre_things/
Stars born in winds from supermassive black holes
March 27, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170327114604.htm
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/05/astronomers-trying-to-take-the-first-picture-of-a-black-hole/
The work at the Event Horizon Telescope aims to pick up that radiation. It will do so by looking towards the black hole at the middle of our milky Way galaxy, which is 26,000 light years from Earth and 4.5 million times as big as our sun.
At such a distance, it's hard to see anything in detail, especially since the object can only be seen at a small angle. But by linking lots of telescopes together, the researchers can see far more fine details.
That work began on 4 April and will run until 14 April. Scientists and computers will then have to pore through that information, looking out for the black hole they hope to see.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...dark-stars-observation-campaign-a7667571.html
hmmm...
Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole out of Galactic Core
Mar. 23, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/strange_offbeat/bizarre_things/
Stars born in winds from supermassive black holes
March 27, 2017
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170327114604.htm
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed1.jpg
The Monroe PC-1421, a 1964 mechanical calculator.
The Monroe PC-1421, a 1964 mechanical calculator.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/saturn-enceladus-ocean-life-1.4068573
Saturn's moon Enceladus holds 'food source' for potential life
Moon could be undergoing same processes that provide food for life on Earth
The search for life in our solar system just became a bit more interesting.
While scientists have not found life on Enceladus, Saturn's moon, they have found the next best thing: food that could sustain potential life. The food source is in the form of molecular hydrogen, which could feed microbes as it does here on Earth.
Scientists detected the molecular hydrogen in plumes of water vapour erupting from beneath the moon's icy surface, a critical ingredient in a process known as methanogenesis. On Earth, this provides food and energy to microbes deep in the oceans.
And the only plausible source, they concluded, are hydrothermal reactions between hot rocks and the water in the moon's ocean.
Saturn's moon Enceladus holds 'food source' for potential life
Moon could be undergoing same processes that provide food for life on Earth
The search for life in our solar system just became a bit more interesting.
While scientists have not found life on Enceladus, Saturn's moon, they have found the next best thing: food that could sustain potential life. The food source is in the form of molecular hydrogen, which could feed microbes as it does here on Earth.
Scientists detected the molecular hydrogen in plumes of water vapour erupting from beneath the moon's icy surface, a critical ingredient in a process known as methanogenesis. On Earth, this provides food and energy to microbes deep in the oceans.
And the only plausible source, they concluded, are hydrothermal reactions between hot rocks and the water in the moon's ocean.
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