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Hubble finds far-away planet vanishing at record speed
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoThis could be an Onion headline with a doctored “Hubble photo” of Earth.
- okket 8y agoLink to the paper: http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_attachment/360/article_GJ3470b.pdf http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_... Story on Hubblesite: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-52 http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-52
- sulam 8y agoI would replace ‘vanishing’ with ‘evaporating’ in the headline.
- mortenjorck 8y agoIt is ambiguous – my first thought was that a record redshift had been measured.
- undersuit 8y agoI was hoping we had spotted planet X entering it's far orbit!
- ttlei 8y agodestroyed by death star?
- andrewflnr 8y agoI mean, kind of, yeah.
- muthdra 8y agoThat's exactly what I think happens to Pandora after the end of Avatar.
- throwaway13337 8y ago>In only a few billion years, half the planet may be gone. Is that really record speed?
- mirimir 8y agoPSA: That site brought my Debian VM to its knees. Two cores at >90%, 3GB RAM, and swap at a few hundred MB, and growing fast. This is with Firefox 60.3.0esr(64-bit). Had to kill the process and swapoff/swapon. After setting "Minimize Memory Usage" at "about:memory",[0] it still does it. Albeit more slowly. So maybe I need to lose Quantum. 0) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223605 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1223605
- mirimir 8y agoSo can someone help me out with this? The site renders fine with Midori. And the images are <100kB. So what could be eating over 3GB of RAM in Firefox?
- dotancohen 8y agoI'm on a similar system, albeit running on hardware as opposed to a VM. Browsing with uBlock Origin I have no problems on that site in Firefox. I did not try in a different browser, nor did I try to disable uBlock.
- mirimir 8y agoThanks. So how much RAM did it use? I mean, it's a simple page, with two images that seem relatively small. But whatever, I guess that I'll complain to Mozilla. Edit: Pingdom test: https://tools.pingdom.com/#59ed8b2e32400000 https://tools.pingdom.com/#59ed8b2e32400000 The total size is just 1.5MB, and I see nothing obvious that should break Firefox Quantum.
- mirimir 8y agoOK, it's some useless script that phys.org runs.[0] If I create a custom NoScript rule, which blocks scripts (and webgl, which I block by default) phys.org sites render just fine. But damn, I am curious what scripts phys.org is running that use so much RAM. Maybe it's a DoS against ad-blockers ;) 0) https://mozilla.logbot.info/firefox/20180907 https://mozilla.logbot.info/firefox/20180907