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The Cool Science Stuff Thread
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It's easiest to say no.
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She has quite the CV....
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I have frequently spoken of a spiral staircase with an elevator running on the inside, and when I put it up the bolt at the top that's out of alignment, its what's you'ld expect... am I right? There's a question in the air and why would you say such a thing? At the bottom of the staircase, if you have a mind to listen for a voice trying to tell you something, and the door closing behind it... the cubist managre of a nude descending a staircase, and there's that voice again laughing?
I'd might better understand, if it were hung from a flag pole!
Otherwise the id, ego, and to some extent the super ego are intact? I lay asphalt at K-Mart isn't a job its knowing, but rather Tell it to the Clowns Head? My Baby Does the Hanky Panky, like that? Mother dropped by and went to lunch maybe but "the kid" is learning had intercorse possibly... London Bridge!
I have frequently spoken of a spiral staircase with an elevator running on the inside, and when I put it up the bolt at the top that's out of alignment, its what's you'ld expect... am I right? There's a question in the air and why would you say such a thing? At the bottom of the staircase, if you have a mind to listen for a voice trying to tell you something, and the door closing behind it... the cubist managre of a nude descending a staircase, and there's that voice again laughing?
I'd might better understand, if it were hung from a flag pole!
Otherwise the id, ego, and to some extent the super ego are intact? I lay asphalt at K-Mart isn't a job its knowing, but rather Tell it to the Clowns Head? My Baby Does the Hanky Panky, like that? Mother dropped by and went to lunch maybe but "the kid" is learning had intercorse possibly... London Bridge!
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The data from the Campbell CR1000 logger is downloading. Amazing that 428168 values can be downloaded remotely in 15 minutes. In the old days, to get just under a hundred points, one would have to send a Rech a hour and a half by jet to the site and use two full days. Tech is good.
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The mine leased ten of the 4,000 horsepower Caterpillar 797 Haul trucks. Amazing on-board electronics. It notes the GPS location of every rock or pothole it runs over based on suspension travel and can dispach an automated bulldozer to make the road repair.
Because of the differences in rock composition and the fact that most of it is pretty hard rock that option wasn't used but it is possible.
Large data dumps sure has changed. Friend of mine was working from home for Bentley designing turbine systems. He would have to burn laserdiscs with terabytes of data and fly them to headquarters.
Because of the differences in rock composition and the fact that most of it is pretty hard rock that option wasn't used but it is possible.
Large data dumps sure has changed. Friend of mine was working from home for Bentley designing turbine systems. He would have to burn laserdiscs with terabytes of data and fly them to headquarters.
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Saw her speak at the NI science festival last year. She's a legend.
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St Patrick's Day
As the year 2020 nears i'm looking at the future having already begun yea no fooling, but imagine next year not to go back on it so, get a grip I haven't completely lost my mind...! Sometime in the spring God willing and the river don't rise i'm needing to pass an annuities exam in order to stay concurrent with events, for now all that they can complain about is my insurance is administered by Geico, and so on... Securities
Series 6.
The USMC reg's wanting for an undeclared war and money to fund their water gate burgers fries and a cokes? Again, against the robes of this high office … black ass backwards!
As the year 2020 nears i'm looking at the future having already begun yea no fooling, but imagine next year not to go back on it so, get a grip I haven't completely lost my mind...! Sometime in the spring God willing and the river don't rise i'm needing to pass an annuities exam in order to stay concurrent with events, for now all that they can complain about is my insurance is administered by Geico, and so on... Securities
Series 6.
The USMC reg's wanting for an undeclared war and money to fund their water gate burgers fries and a cokes? Again, against the robes of this high office … black ass backwards!
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Very cool photographs from a German astronaut (Alexander Gerst) aboard the International Space Station:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_alex/albums
(taken by Alexander Gerst)
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When was the last time you thought of a Miller's? If at the County Line there a Street that Dead ends into a Cross Street is of one of empending doom that cautionary "Your Dead Too." Then things going aryeh are of a pornographic artistry?
When was the last time you thought of a Miller's? If at the County Line there a Street that Dead ends into a Cross Street is of one of empending doom that cautionary "Your Dead Too." Then things going aryeh are of a pornographic artistry?
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During the recent Perseid shower, photographer Petr Horálek caught an awesome timelapse of an exploding meteor and the vortex ring it created. This is a type of persistent train left when meteors pass through the upper atmosphere. The exact physics are not well understood because such events are difficult to observe; catching them at all is basically just happenstance. But one interpretation is that we’re seeing trails of plasma left by the ionization of parts of the meteor. When the meteor hits the upper atmosphere, there’s an extremely strong hypersonic shock wave. The jump in temperature across that shock wave is enough to pull atoms apart, creating a plasma. The train left by this meteor’s demise was faintly visible even an hour after the fireball.
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During the recent Perseid shower, photographer Petr Horálek caught an awesome timelapse of an exploding meteor and the vortex ring it created. This is a type of persistent train left when meteors pass through the upper atmosphere. The exact physics are not well understood because such events are difficult to observe; catching them at all is basically just happenstance. But one interpretation is that we’re seeing trails of plasma left by the ionization of parts of the meteor. When the meteor hits the upper atmosphere, there’s an extremely strong hypersonic shock wave. The jump in temperature across that shock wave is enough to pull atoms apart, creating a plasma. The train left by this meteor’s demise was faintly visible even an hour after the fireball.
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Scrawny Dwarf Planet, Named Goblin, Found Well Beyond Pluto
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by Marcia Dunn
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) —...This is the third dwarf planet recently found to be orbiting on the frigid fringes of our solar system.
Goblin’s orbit is extremely elongated — so stretched out, in fact, that it takes 40,000 years for it to circle the sun. At its most distant, the Goblin is 2,300 times farther from the sun than Earth. That’s 2,300 astronomical units, or AU. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, or roughly 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). At its closest, the Goblin is 65 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 65 AU. Pluto, by comparison, is approximately between 30 and 50 AU.
[Scott] Sheppard, along with Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen, spotted the Goblin in October 2015 when it was relatively nearby — around 80 AU.
The two other dwarf planets are Sedna, discovered in 2003, which is about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) across, and 2012 VP113, about 310 miles (500 kilometers). They were found by some of the same astronomers.
Thousands — even a million — more such objects could be way out there orbiting in the so-called Inner Oort Cloud, according to the researchers. They’re in hot pursuit of them, as well as a potentially bigger-than-Earth planet known as Planet 9, or Planet X, believed by some scientists to be orbiting at a distance of hundreds of AU...
Goblin’s orbit is extremely elongated — so stretched out, in fact, that it takes 40,000 years for it to circle the sun. At its most distant, the Goblin is 2,300 times farther from the sun than Earth. That’s 2,300 astronomical units, or AU. One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun, or roughly 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). At its closest, the Goblin is 65 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 65 AU. Pluto, by comparison, is approximately between 30 and 50 AU.
[Scott] Sheppard, along with Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen, spotted the Goblin in October 2015 when it was relatively nearby — around 80 AU.
The two other dwarf planets are Sedna, discovered in 2003, which is about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) across, and 2012 VP113, about 310 miles (500 kilometers). They were found by some of the same astronomers.
Thousands — even a million — more such objects could be way out there orbiting in the so-called Inner Oort Cloud, according to the researchers. They’re in hot pursuit of them, as well as a potentially bigger-than-Earth planet known as Planet 9, or Planet X, believed by some scientists to be orbiting at a distance of hundreds of AU...
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The Apollo 8 mission took place from 21 to 27 December 1968
Fifty years have past, since human beings achieved a trip to the moon.
After completing 10 orbits around the Moon on Christmas Eve, broadcasting images back to Earth and giving live television transmissions, the crew returned to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181005111434.htm
Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders - became the first humans to orbit another world.
The mission was also famous for the iconic "Earthrise" image, snapped by Anders, which would give humankind a new perspective on their home planet. Anders has said that despite all the training and preparation for an exploration of the moon, the astronauts ended up discovering Earth.
The crew splashed down in the Pacific on December 27. A lunar landing was still months away, but for the first time ever, humans from Earth had visited the moon and returned home safely.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/apollo_8.html
Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8
Date: October 5, 2018
Source: International Astronomical Union
Summary:
The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has today officially approved the naming of two craters on the Moon to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.
The names are Anders's Earthrise and 8 Homeward
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181005111434.htm
Fifty years have past, since human beings achieved a trip to the moon.
After completing 10 orbits around the Moon on Christmas Eve, broadcasting images back to Earth and giving live television transmissions, the crew returned to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181005111434.htm
Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders - became the first humans to orbit another world.
The mission was also famous for the iconic "Earthrise" image, snapped by Anders, which would give humankind a new perspective on their home planet. Anders has said that despite all the training and preparation for an exploration of the moon, the astronauts ended up discovering Earth.
The crew splashed down in the Pacific on December 27. A lunar landing was still months away, but for the first time ever, humans from Earth had visited the moon and returned home safely.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/apollo_8.html
Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8
Date: October 5, 2018
Source: International Astronomical Union
Summary:
The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has today officially approved the naming of two craters on the Moon to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission.
The names are Anders's Earthrise and 8 Homeward
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181005111434.htm
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Why? Aren't elephants just as edible?
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I swear to god this is NOT "photoshopped."
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NASA releases photo of weird rectangular iceberg
by Anthony Watts
October 23, 2018
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, carried a flight over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on Oct. 16, 2018. During the flight, IceBridge senior support scientist Jeremy Harbeck spotted two rectangular icebergs floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf...
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The rectangular iceberg appeared to be freshly calved from Larsen C, which in July 2017 released the massive A68 iceberg, a chunk of ice about the size of the state of Delaware...
...The flight originated from Punta Arenas, Chile, as part of a five-week-long IceBridge deployment, which began Oct. 10 and is scheduled to conclude Nov. 18.
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The rectangular iceberg appeared to be freshly calved from Larsen C, which in July 2017 released the massive A68 iceberg, a chunk of ice about the size of the state of Delaware...
...The flight originated from Punta Arenas, Chile, as part of a five-week-long IceBridge deployment, which began Oct. 10 and is scheduled to conclude Nov. 18.
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Love it.
What a hoot.
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Scientific Apophenia
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by Kip Hansen
...Let’s suppose for a moment that the AGW Hypothesis had never captured the minds of atmospheric and oceanographic scientists, meteorologists, and those studying the Earth’s various Koppen Climate regions.
These men and women, at a great gathering of the world’s geophysical scientists, attend a lecture on past and present climate and see a PowerPoint slide of generalized temperatures over the last 2,000 years. It might look like this:
Do you think that these brilliant minds would arise as one and shout for immediate and drastic changes to human society, demanding that energy production, civil and social organization and even economic systems must change immediately in order to prevent global disaster? Would they see catastrophic anthropogenic global warming in that graphic?
Or would they see that the Northern Hemisphere, at least, is finally warming back up from an unusually cool period to a more comfortable and sustainable level for human society? — a temperature almost up to the idealized expected average surface temperature for an Earth-like planet, 15°C.
If they had not convinced themselves in advance that rising CO2 concentrations would cause run-away dangerous warming, would they see that danger in the chaotic climate data of today?...
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These men and women, at a great gathering of the world’s geophysical scientists, attend a lecture on past and present climate and see a PowerPoint slide of generalized temperatures over the last 2,000 years. It might look like this:
Do you think that these brilliant minds would arise as one and shout for immediate and drastic changes to human society, demanding that energy production, civil and social organization and even economic systems must change immediately in order to prevent global disaster? Would they see catastrophic anthropogenic global warming in that graphic?
Or would they see that the Northern Hemisphere, at least, is finally warming back up from an unusually cool period to a more comfortable and sustainable level for human society? — a temperature almost up to the idealized expected average surface temperature for an Earth-like planet, 15°C.
If they had not convinced themselves in advance that rising CO2 concentrations would cause run-away dangerous warming, would they see that danger in the chaotic climate data of today?...
more...
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^ Hey, asshole, this is the cool science stuff thread, not the lame anti-science propaganda thread.
Researchers Created an 'AI Physicist' That Can Derive the Laws of Physics in Imaginary Universes
Two researchers from MIT have created an “AI physicist” that is able to generate theories about the physical laws of imaginary universes. It marks a major step toward creating machine learning algorithms that are capable of not just finding patterns, but extrapolating from those patterns to make predictions about the future. This would lay the foundation for scientific discoveries made entirely by artificial intelligences.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...ve-the-laws-of-physics-in-imaginary-universes
Researchers Created an 'AI Physicist' That Can Derive the Laws of Physics in Imaginary Universes
Two researchers from MIT have created an “AI physicist” that is able to generate theories about the physical laws of imaginary universes. It marks a major step toward creating machine learning algorithms that are capable of not just finding patterns, but extrapolating from those patterns to make predictions about the future. This would lay the foundation for scientific discoveries made entirely by artificial intelligences.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...ve-the-laws-of-physics-in-imaginary-universes
