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That turns out not to be the case. I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation in another Apollo/radiation thread a few years ago, using data available...

Here's a graph. (Original context.) We're using less paper for printing, but more for packaging. The problem is, of course, that the increase in...

Most of my favourites are intensely sad. The Boon Companion refers to that particular pile of movies as my "feel-bad collection". Yes, I enjoyed...

By the way, if anyone wants to read the remarkably detailed analysis of radiation exposure experienced by the Apollo XI astronauts, try to get hold...

An article from 2012, entitled Radiation exposure in the moon environment.So what Chang'E-4 has done is produce more complete data for a radiation...

But does anyone still believe Apollo 11 landed in Cornwall? Sorry. On topic: It was generally known that the Apollo astronauts would be exposed to...

Now, that conjures up an interesting mental image in British English. One that's surprisingly difficult to dismiss once envisioned. Grant Hutchison

No, it was a science journalist named Ann Gibbons. To quote Merriman & Cameron: Grant Hutchison

You need three things--the angular separation of two lensed images, the light-travel time delay between those two lensed images, and the velocity...

I don't suppose you have an actual thermometer in your fridge? "Half power" doesn't really help. In a sub-zero environment, it's not unusual for one...

The personal risk calculation for people over 30 in the UK is currently a no-brainer--you're more likely to come to harm from Covid than from an...

Yes, I understand what people liked about it, and I've no objection at all to supernatural / science fantasy narratives. (In fact, I like few things...

Yeah. I think we watched an episode and a half, back-to-back. The engine, the polar bear, and the point at which I said, "Time for this guy to be...

Copy it from an earlier post by someone else in the thread. That way you'll keep the typeface consistent, too. Grant Hutchison

'Oumuamua. Last time I looked, it was behaving just in the way it would if it were outgassing. So absolutely not swerving around the sky in...

Who knows. Are they bigger or smaller than a correct fit? Have you checked the label and measured the waistband of the old and new jeans? ...

I don't know how he validated his data--my earlier link goes to a version of the tool used in the so-called Great British Psychopath Survey, but it...

It's a meme created by Kevin Dutton, based on a survey hosted on his personal website. After a few thousand responses, he published a list of...

But there are no diagnostic criteria for this entity, "psychopathy", outside the criminal justice system. It isn't listed as a diagnosis in the...

But you can't. Not remotely. If you look at the 20-point Hare checklist, a tool used to assess criminal behaviour that the courts would consider...

Yes. The question seems founded on a faulty premise, that "psychopathy" is a well-defined, binary state, identifiable by some sort of "psychopath...

Yeah. Again, the GAN struggles with the backgrounds, which often don't make sense unless they're very out of focus. Collars and shoulders seem odd,...

The GAN has done a good job of reproducing the sky as it appears in astrophotographs of the Milky Way, I'd say, presumably because there is fairly...

That might well serve to drive the local mice indoors in a house with no cat. My parents once lived in a tenement flat, with cat owners on the floor...

One story about the cancellation of Invasion is that it suffered by comparison with Lost, which was gathering viewing momentum at the time. But I...

For sure. My regular forays into UFOlogy come from the shelves of the local charity shops. Stuff often arrives in boluses as people clear their...

My Wife The Professor had a Chinese PhD student, many years ago, who was very earnest about trying to understand Scottish culture. So after Easter...

Isn't it a feature of the sky, that it's cut off at the horizon? As for fat and blobby, that would depend on the simulated field of view, which we...

I found it interesting, to the extent it's still on my shelves somewhere--a useful chronological narration of who was saying what to whom. But it's...