The Cool Science Stuff Thread
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https://bgr.com/2020/11/04/voyager-2-spacecraft-nasa-communication/amp/
The antenna used to communicate with Voyager 2 in interstellar space has been under repair since March. Recent tests confirm that the 43-year-old craft is still working.
From transmission to reception of reply took a day and most of a half. And you thought your Zoom calls lag.
The antenna used to communicate with Voyager 2 in interstellar space has been under repair since March. Recent tests confirm that the 43-year-old craft is still working.
From transmission to reception of reply took a day and most of a half. And you thought your Zoom calls lag.
Oh I want this.
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An 2000 year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons. Found in Bulgaria, Karanovo
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This was most of my Thursday. Hours upon hours on Zoom with peeps in the EU.
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I just had to school a Canadian on how to design in cold regions.....
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Mink pelts are a great way to stay warm in the winter. Not sure about using them as construction material.
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In the colder parts of eastern Europe, a woman's fur coat is a necessity for her.
I have seen reindeer hides used for pipe insulation in Siberia. Let's just say that it worked better than nothing.
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mmmm 'shrooms 
(remind me to tell you a story sometime)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/magic-mushrooms-could-help-treat-depressions-study
(remind me to tell you a story sometime) https://www.foxnews.com/health/magic-mushrooms-could-help-treat-depressions-study
Why are they even keeping mink? I thought Denmark was a cool kinda place.
FFS humans have to do some serious thinking when this is done... if it ever is.
Raising mink for fur is a big agricultural business in Denmark. Their main market is China. However, the complete de-population they have planned will likely wipe out the industry in Denmark forever and wipe out the life savings of many farmers.
(So in addition to HK, Covid's origins and the Uighers - buying and wearing real fur is something else the progressives will have to work hard to ignore about China (and liberal Europe). Bet PETA doesn't do much protesting in Beijing and probably never threw red paint on some Party Member's mink coat.
Personally I don't have a problem with mink farming and Denmark still is a pretty cool place - so are the Netherlands and Belgium as all three have great beer and really nice people - well for Belgium, some nice people!
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Three Israelis who returned from Denmark and were confirmed as being infected with the novel coronavirus may have been infected with the new strain discovered recently among minks in the Scandinavian country, according to KAN news.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/i...-coronavirus-strain-from-denmark-minks-648513
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I just wrote 1,200 words on minks as reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2 and the economic impact of Denmark's culling on its farmed mink industry. And then another 500 words on the potential impact to mink farming in other EU countries from the virus.
Next week, I'm calling Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, and France to find someone who wants to push an APHIS trial.
Tomorrow, I'm writing about amplicons for a CAR therapy.
This would be a joke if I didn't find all of it utterly fascinating.
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I suppose the price for wild pelts will be going up?
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Not an arb situation just yet. The Danish government realized that they don't have the authority to effect a culling.
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Maybe they just need to keep away from the minks?
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Can't do that. Humans tend mink farms, so there's your viral vector. Then it bounces from one mink to another to another and so forth. Unlike cats, dogs, and certain other animals that tend to be mildly symptomatic, mink can and will die. That they are raised in crowded conditions, well, that's just icing on the cake.
But the mink have their revenge. They've developed a mutation that transferred back to humans. 214 cases of new mutation infections so far of which 12 have a 'cluster 5' that could signal that all vaccines currently in human trials would be less effective.
How much less effective is TBD. If cluster 5 becomes the dominant strain, oh boy.
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A friend made a little pocket money when he was young spotlighting jackrabbits and selling their dead carcasses to the mink farmers. That was Wyoming.
