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This night sky does not exist
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The really creepy one is This person does not exist: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ Humans are supposed to be quite sensitive to the slightest...
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11:21 AM
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This night sky does not exist
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I mean before the horizon, sorry...they sometimes seem to have a gap at the bottom. Maybe the few times I actually saw the Milky Way was not quite...
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Yesterday,
10:47 AM
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This night sky does not exist
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The galaxy is often fat, blobby or cut off at the horizon. Of course, it depends on the individual sky, but I expect the Milky Way to be a thin band.
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Yesterday,
12:41 AM
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This night sky does not exist
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So it is long exposures in the sample photos that make the generated night skies look wonky?
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2021-Apr-09,
05:14 PM
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What could you deduce from these night skies? To me, they look often like a view from the edge of a galaxy, or a world in an irregular galaxy....
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2021-Apr-07,
11:01 AM
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Coalsack's future
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Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers
The article says this will take "millions of years". Any guess as to how many megayears? Two? Five? Ten?
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2021-Apr-06,
08:14 PM
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Coalsack's future
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stars will eventually light up, and the coal “nuggets” in the Coalsack will "combust", almost as if touched by a flame. BTW, I assume this is a...
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2021-Apr-06,
03:41 PM
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Coalsack's future
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I looked up some references for the Coalsack, but didn’t think of including ‘future’. Thanks.
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2021-Apr-06,
11:44 AM
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Measuring calories
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I went from ~260 pounds to ~160, then slowly rose to about 185 and leveled off there.
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2021-Apr-05,
10:30 PM
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Coalsack's future
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Will the Coalsack condense into a star cluster? Or is there some reason it can't?
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2021-Apr-05,
10:32 AM
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Does gravity have speed?
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Is there "aberration of gravity"? As you rotate around a primary, does the primary "feel" as if it were slightly ahead of where it actually is?
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2021-Apr-02,
09:08 PM
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Makeup of neutrinos
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What percentage of the universe's neutrinos are made from radioactive decay? What percentage by stellar "burning? How about supernovae? And from...
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2021-Apr-02,
11:18 AM
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Measuring calories
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"Fridge thought" If they measure calories by burning the food, how do they measure calories of stuff like milk?
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2021-Apr-01,
05:01 PM
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Hiccups
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With gestation and suckling as hypotheses I wonder if monotremes hiccup (iirc they lick and I know they lay eggs.
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2021-Apr-01,
11:48 AM
Tom Mazanec
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What are hiccups for? How did they evolve?
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2021-Mar-30,
04:36 PM
Tom Mazanec
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What do you think is the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox?
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Life in Space
No reproducing organism wants to curb their own spread, but they do so in nature to maintain a balanced niche and not devour their way to extinction....
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2021-Mar-25,
12:38 PM
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Sometimes extinction is not forever: Lazarus taxons article
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It's even got alliteration! Orion's Arm has actual Lazarus Taxa, and they pride themselves on their technology being at least remotely plausible.
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2021-Mar-24,
11:07 AM
Tom Mazanec
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Terraformed planet of O star
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Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers
Thanks, Grant! And we know neutron stars at least can have planets (an idea I had a good laugh about with my astronomy professor back in 1976).
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2021-Mar-21,
09:23 PM
Tom Mazanec
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Terraformed planet of O star
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Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers
How about a rogue planet drifting close enough to a quasar to terraform (by means that leave the quasar visible). Would the sun-bright quasar twinkle?
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2021-Mar-19,
03:12 PM
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Why did we stop wearing digital watches and velcro shoes?
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Science and Technology
On Rhoda there was a huge wall clock in one episode. It had multiple different color geometric figures on it. A character spent almost a minute...
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2021-Mar-15,
03:03 PM
Tom Mazanec
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Why did we stop wearing digital watches and velcro shoes?
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Science and Technology
In the 90s I had a talking watch but it soon stopped working.
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2021-Mar-13,
08:44 PM
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Why did we stop wearing digital watches and velcro shoes?
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I tried a digital watch but changing time(like we will do tonight) was a real hassle for me. I went back to analog self-winding, but covid has made...
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