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by Keysh 3y ago
Ironically, the Greenglass-directed Bourne films that the quotes refer to are more like Bond than the very first Bourne film ( The Bourne Identity , directed by Doug Liman). In that film, Bourne travels by boat to Marseilles, by train to
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by Keysh 3y ago
Well, yeah. I was looking at the Veron-Cetty & Veron (2010; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010A%26A...518A..10V ) catalog recently, and it has more than 30,000 AGN galaxies (not counting the > 100,000 quasars&#x2
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by Keysh 3y ago
Not sure if this was addressed to me, but in case it was: I actually did my Ph.D. thesis on double-barred galaxies, and have continued to work on and off on barred galaxies over the years; here's a partial list of paper's I (Peter
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by Keysh 3y ago
Sadly, this is a case of mistaken identity. I downloaded a Hubble Legacy Atlas mosaic image of the Sombrero Galaxy, and found his galaxy ("Iris"), right where he said it was. From the appearance (and the color figures in his paper
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Fractions = rational numbers, which are an infinitely small subset of the real numbers. The rest of the reals are irrational numbers, of which pi and e are examples.
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_when pacific islanders roll up trying to create indentured servitude on mars, we can expand & adjust the models and definition as needed. But for now there's no value in attempting to generalize, the narrow model fits the conditio
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Would it make any sense to describe the Polynesian settlement of Pacific islands as "nazi bullshit"? (Granted, we have little or no access to proto-Maori ideologies of the 13th Century, say, but discussions of what "colonizat
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It's kind of interesting to read about contemporary reactions to Night of the Living Dead , which included "it's obviously a commentary on the Vietnam War" and "a critique of American capitalism". The closest
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Well, it's not as if people originally from Asia went and colonized islands all over the Pacific over the last few thousand years or anything.
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That means massive black holes have a much lower density that small black holes. So they are more likely to form than small black holes. No, it doesn't, because you're ignoring all the physics required to get the mass into a sma
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... the only way we know that these super massive black holes can form is by smaller black merging. The main way supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies grow is by accreting gas , not by mergers with other black holes. (But y
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LISA is a scaled-up version of LIGO, and won't produce "photos" any more than LIGO does. Of course, LIGO has provided extremely good evidence that black holes exist (most of what it detects are the gravitational waves from tw
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From the article "He found that the beetles had similarly high success rates with four other frog species.... "When swallowed, other similar water beetles were killed and digested by the frog...."
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Quoting from the actual paper: "As the relationships between scientific practice and social, archaeological and historical interpretations continue to be debated in the discipline at large (McGovern 1995; Jones 2001; Knapp 2002), it sh
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by Keysh 3y ago
No the article is about how child sacrifice by Carthaginians was widely accepted by ancient (Greek and Roman) authors, but has been doubted by (some) 20th Century historians and archeologists.
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Non-paywalled PDF of of the paper (actually both papers in the "Debate" section; the relevant paper is the second one): https://www.academia.edu/download/34987326/XellaEtAlDebate_A...
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by Keysh 3y ago
Well, he alternated between not believing in the existence of (EM) radio waves at all and claiming that they were useless for transmitting messages, which isn't the same as the luminiferous ether idea. Belief in a luminiferous ether (t
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by Keysh 4y ago
GPS is affected by both general and special relativity, in opposite ways. The GR effect is larger, but if you don’t include the SR effect, you’ll get it wrong. https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/pogge.1/Ast162/
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by Keysh 4y ago
Smoke screens are obviously not going to be useful as defenses for things like missiles, since the smoke immediately slows down when it collides with the air while the missile/projectile continues on at high speed. (It might be useful
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The Roman historian Walter Scheidel has a whole book ( Escape from Rome ) on this question -- basically, exploring the idea that Europe never really reformed a large-scale empire after the Roman Empire started to fall apart in the 5th C, wh
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by Keysh 4y ago
There were two problems with Einstein's original (1917) cosmological model. The first was what you mention: Einstein assumed the universe was static, but later observations showed this wasn't true. The second was that his static m
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From the article: > In December 2022, an international team of astronomers released the results of their latest survey of galaxies, and their work has confirmed that the vacuum of spacetime is wreaking havoc across the cosmos. They found
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> Dark energy is really the fudge for all this. The idea is that creating new space takes energy. That has to come from somewhere and dark energy is our fudge factor for that. No one really knows what dark energy is or looks like just li
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I'm afraid that none of that is correct.
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When you have a (rotating) bar, the allowed orbits tend to intersect with each other. This has not effect on the stars, since they're so small relative to the space involved that they never collide; but gas clouds are quite large, and
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by Keysh 4y ago
If you actually look at the link prpi provided, there are several examples. E.g., Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (yes), Hiawatha, and Kings of the Sun; if you allow animated films, there's Pachamama and The Emperor's New Groove. More
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by Keysh 4y ago
> Wikipedia doesn't quote the records associated with 1054 Wait, what? The Wikipedia article on SN 1054 has an extensive discussion of the Chinese records ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1054#Chinese_astronomy
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"archaeologists believe that the mound's creation could have been influenced by two different astronomical events: the light from the supernova that created the Crab Nebula" That's a pretty dubious assertion (and I notic
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> The same thing happened with Libya and Syria, only now it was the other set of talking points - although again, Qaddafi was promoting pan-African unity, an alternative currency, independence from Europe and the USA on oil sales, closer
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> it’s quite hard to know exactly what happened back then! For instance, the Greeks would never admit that Alexander was the son of the King of Persia and grandson of Philip. Yes, it’s unlikely but it’s not implausible… Given that we kno

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