Florin_Andrei

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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
"glaux" IIRC originally meant a kind of owl that was sacred to Athena. So likely "glaukopis" meant something more like "owl-eyed", at least for a while. And Glaukopis is often seen as an epithet given to Athena
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
The problem with "democratic" downvotes is that the vote of an expert is equal with the vote of an ignorant who votes while browsing the internets in the evening while drunk. Actually, that's kind of the problem with democrac
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Simple protocol: one coffee cup in the morning to wake up. Green or black tea through the day as needed.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
It could also be that your understanding of neutron stars may be superficial - you may feel, however strongly, that you understand this topic, while reality may be different. Have you considered that hypothesis? Nobody who actually works in
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#Density_and_press... > In popular scientific writing, neutron stars are therefore sometimes described as "giant nuclei". However, in other respects, neutron star
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Life on a neutron star, as understood by a local, in their own terms. It's brilliant.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Writing is pretty dry, but the ideas are grand. It's worth a read.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
There are no isotopes with neutron stars because they are not actually nuclei.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
That's stretching quite a bit the definition of a nucleus. Neutron stars are held together by gravity, not nuclear forces. Also, the mix of particles is very different from an actual nucleus. The physics are pretty different. It's
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
That is very true as of right now. But the landscape of the space industry is changing very rapidly. With a fleet of hundreds of reusable rockets floating around, the accessibility of the Hubble may change. Of course, at that point it might
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Absolutely right. The phenomena are pretty intricate. E.g. in the initial stages, grinding the mirror is a physical process: you use some very hard material to carve the glass into the desired shape. But when it gets to polishing (smoothing
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> Google's increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong and a steward of information That is exactly what's needed. When there's no penalty for bullshit, lies tend to self-perpetuate, like viruses. You may be fixated
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> They are such great and imaginative books Those books are pretty awful. They can't make up their mind whether they belong to sci-fi or fantasy. Sometimes they veer towards hard scifi but then make naive mistakes with current sci
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> It still amazes me that one, the mirrors are sensitive enough to the deformation of Earth's gravity to have an effect and two, that we are now very good at compensating for this now. I make telescope mirrors. This problem was we
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
I was disappointed the founder's name is not actually Robert Tables.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
In ancient Rome they didn't have a police force. What they had was essentially muscle for hire, mercenary bands paid by rich and powerful folks to do their bidding. As a regular person, the only thing that could have protected you from
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Ok, external perturbation, got it. Yeah, that makes sense. Otherwise it would just very slowly spiral in, due to losses from general relativity.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Okay, so as long as you have 3 or more bodies, I understand ejection. Energy gets transferred semi-randomly such that eventually one body gains too much energy and shoots out. But when N=2, what is the ejection mechanism? That's an ell
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
I think what they really meant in the article is that it can never decrease through processes other than the radiation. E.g., BH mergers and so on, the area always increases.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
For more than half of those, the actual thing you're looking for is a bar or pub. Y'all are confused.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
In the (now not very) long run, programming was a job meant for computers, anyway. The future will look back at "programming" the way we now look at Charles Dickens characters toiling in soot-filled factories. It's not what p
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
There are many reasonable theories out there, competing for the explanation of various phenomena. And then there are those who pick and choose the theories they want to relentlessly push and promote, because they support the deepest, most b
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
If by "agenda" you mean this: > dire implications for the Covid-19 pandemic if it’s not brought under control soon through vaccination then I propose a different target for the head-check.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
So, a likely scenario is: a new virus appeared, it swept through the population, caused serious disease, a bunch of people died, the survivors had better resistance to it, it settled as a mostly innocuous thing (such as the common cold) or
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
They were less "isolated" than you imagine. They traded with each other, intermarried, fought wars. You can see that in populations having a similar life style nowadays (there's very few of them now).
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
The old Google (of Larry and Sergey) is gone.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
Neither do I! (and, BTW, I agree with the general meaning of your quote from AB)
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
And now his name shall forever remain linked with one of the most vile spouts of toxic sludge in the contemporary media. Legacies are complicated.
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
The legal system will always trail behind the reality on the societal ground out there - that's almost by definition, and you actually kinda want them to be quite cautious and thorough before they make decisions. But you also need to w
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by Florin_Andrei 5y ago
> I really like being among people That's what the local pub is for.

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