Subject: Science News
Date: Fri Aug 14 16:49:42 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Actually, hottie, I *don't* think you posted in the wrong thread. The string of the conversation went from:
comet ---> horizon (and we established it was flat in Hoosier-land ---> aberration to that flatness (the "Knobs") ---> "Gobbler's Knob" ---> funny place names.
All perfectly logical and relevant to NEOWISE and Betelgeuse. I mean.......isn't "Betelgeuse" a funny place name?
Date: Fri Aug 14 17:59:32 2020
User: hotnurse
Message:Betelgeuse makes me lol every time I hear the word or see the movie.
Date: Wed Dec 2 00:27:48 2020
User: Katya
Message:I read a few days ago that they were taking Arecibo down - it was too unstable to remain standing. Likely a result of hurricane damage coupled with age?
Date: Wed Dec 2 02:12:37 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:But boy that thing has been a real workhorse for such a very long time.
Date: Sat Dec 5 19:15:08 2020
User: The_Interpreter
Message:Measuring the fine structure constant.
Link: alpha
Date: Sun Dec 6 04:06:12 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:I love stuff like this. It recalls a great article, which I may or may not have linked some time ago, about whether all our physical constants are random, or whatever. It's a profound question. One of the key points is that............say, the constant *was* that 1/138 instead of 1/137. So......life wouldn't exist (perhaps). Then the question becomes...............are these constants what they are *because* we're here to measure them - therefore they *must* be what they are? (The anthropic argument.) Were there an infinite number of previous universes that had different constants that when thru their existence, died, and then regenerated with different constants? (And we aren't sure yet whether antimatter has the same constants as regular matter, altho experiments are under way to try and pin that down.) And what about dark matter, 'for that matter'? If the standard model is indeed accurate and complete, then dark matter becomes even harder to explain. Are there indeed an infinite number of universes "all around us" due to quantum uncertainties and dualities? (And the harder one looks at that the harder it is to dismiss it as a crazy idea.) ETC.........
Link: the anthropic principle as a theory as to why we can exist
Date: Tue Apr 20 02:53:43 2021
User: ix
Message:there was a story on CBS news about the space station being inhabited for 20 years now. it was a great story. also one about the mars drone. good stuff.
Date: Wed Apr 21 16:11:44 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Newton would probably dig this, too. Read third paragraph from the end.
Link: "moon trees"
Date: Sat May 8 03:43:03 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Here ya go, ix. Gosh, imagine how incredible this would be. But it'll be a couple of generations, at best, probably, before this is a realistic possibility.
Link: Let's not be holding our breath yet
Date: Wed Jun 9 17:00:03 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Here's a radio telescope in BC that I did not know about. That can handle *terabytes* per second!
Link: The Universe "chimes" in
Date: Thu Jul 1 21:59:34 2021
User: mrbuck
Message:Have they tried unplugging it, counting to ten, then plugging it back in? If that failed have they tried essential oils?
mrbuck
Date: Thu Jul 1 22:18:34 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:I know not. And I'm betting, with as long as it's been up there, that they didn't have the foresight to stash onboard any of that 'miracle cure' stuff we heard a lot about last year. But uv light should be plentiful!
Date: Tue Jul 6 05:28:02 2021
User: Katya
Message:Update on Hubble from NASA on July 2
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-sees-a-cluster-of-red-white-and-blue
Date: Tue Jul 6 05:31:58 2021
User: Katya
Message:But they didn't say when Hubble saw it. Last update I found on telescope repairs was June 30th from NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/operations-underway-to-restore-payload-computer-on-nasa...
Date: Wed Aug 4 12:32:20 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, Hubble has been back up and running for a bit. This just flew completely under my radar and I'm guessing it did your all's, too.
Hubble quoted the great Samuel Clemens when asked for comment. (Altho as we know, it's technically a mis-quote.)
Link: "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated"
Date: Wed Sep 1 14:39:49 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Digging deeper into (nearby) galactic composition...
Link: "The Accident"
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