General science thread
July 2nd, 2022 at 12:31:07 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 158 Posts: 15143 | I’m expecting to be disappointed by the James telescope pictures or confused at what I am looking at. I don’t know why. But that reminded me of a movie (the name of which I can’t remember at the moment) of the guy who radiates himself (or something) and his vision continues to increase until he has to wear a blindfold with blacked out glasses in order to see normally. At the end of the movie when he’s working as psychic visionary in a traveling ministry, he’s finally sees so far into space and time he screams as he sees something looking back. Pro-lifer eats meatball with entire human inside without noticing. "Yum Yum", he says. |
July 9th, 2022 at 10:09:44 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 3649 | unusual evidently ... and 6000 miles so far ![]() Politics! Imagine any other activity where it is OK to openly obsess over race and ethnicity |
July 9th, 2022 at 1:15:47 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 3649 |
Able to stay liquid after 4.5 billion years? I think so. http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2020/09/the-strange-surface-of-ceres.html Politics! Imagine any other activity where it is OK to openly obsess over race and ethnicity |
July 12th, 2022 at 11:27:58 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 158 Posts: 15143 | She’s going to have some full length video later tonight. She’s at a conference in a room full of others in the same profession to observe the release of new pics.
Pro-lifer eats meatball with entire human inside without noticing. "Yum Yum", he says. |
July 13th, 2022 at 11:49:36 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 3649 | Hail to the 8-track!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-breaking-voyager-spacecraft-begin-to-power-down/ Politics! Imagine any other activity where it is OK to openly obsess over race and ethnicity |
July 27th, 2022 at 2:05:43 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 3649 | this is in fact* not an asteroid, which probably shows someone wanted to manipulate by fear. Also a good illustration of the slingshot effect https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/w8q4gg/path_of_an_asteroid_that_has_multiple_close_calls/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3 * according to wikipedia article Politics! Imagine any other activity where it is OK to openly obsess over race and ethnicity |
July 27th, 2022 at 2:07:45 PM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 3649 | from wikipedia you don't have to click ![]() Politics! Imagine any other activity where it is OK to openly obsess over race and ethnicity |
July 31st, 2022 at 11:59:35 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 158 Posts: 15143 |
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-army-has-a-drone-flying-over-the-american-southwest-that-refuses-to-die/ar-AA109CTY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f84392df97514f909cf5ac46bd3c3d56 Pro-lifer eats meatball with entire human inside without noticing. "Yum Yum", he says. |
August 1st, 2022 at 2:56:40 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1049 Posts: 12414 | The Heliopause is about 11 billion miles from the Sun, but that is about 123 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. So it is not really wrong to say that it is ~ 11 billion miles from the Earth as well.
The heliopause is the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium; where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the stellar winds of the surrounding stars. This is the boundary where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance. The heliopause is a plasma layer that encloses the heliosphere. |
August 1st, 2022 at 3:43:48 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 3649 | Apparently it is a common mistake with journalists to assume the heliosphere is the extent of the solar system... in fact I guess I assumed that too, but in one article I read the scientist interviewed begged the reporter not to make that mistake, so that informed me too. the Oort Cloud is way the hell out there and part of the solar system as those objects orbit the sun. Starts at about 2000 astronomical units, which is 1.8591e+11 miles ... which means you multiply by 10^11, so you can see why they started using AUs... extending to perhaps 200,000 AUs which is crazy far out there [3.2 light years] this image is logarithmic scale it seems ![]() Politics! Imagine any other activity where it is OK to openly obsess over race and ethnicity |