OmicronCeti

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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   What from the article are you staking your comment on? Why do you think that? Hoping for a more substantive response. Edit: I see you fleshed out your comment more.
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   Also going to voice my love for Red Mars, I found Green Mars to be much more of a slog to get through, but I really like anything KSR writes. Blue Mars was a nice finale though.
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   Speaking of areology, there is a small subreddit for precisely that field which is quite good: reddit.com/r/Areology
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   First, I should note that I have a personal bias in that I study Mars for my PhD. I dislike Elon Musk, and I am not in favor of terraforming. That out of the way, McKay comes off as overly aggressive at times, and wishy-washy in others. It
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   Yeah most academics dread doing a peer review, because honestly if you actually get sent one that's a good fit, four out of five times the paper is in very rough shape, and the onus is on you the reviewer to point out and correct every
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   Some journals are trying to capture that space too, many are developing their own pre-print servers for who knows what reason.
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   >is where can I go to get everything in an individual hobbyist subscription pricing? No. Many of the journals listed will have some OA papers, while other papers will be paywalled. There are few journals (like Nature) that are entirely
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   Peer review should always be unpaid. Some journals will give you a $100 discount voucher, but I've never heard of anyone being directly compensated. My own rule of thumb is that I have to to three peer-reviews for every one paper I pub
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   by OmicronCeti 5y ago

   Ah the joy publishing with a poor-quality journal: the reviewers don't care or no nothing about the field, bad research gets rubberstamped, the authors gets to claim it was published, and the journal can just blame the reviewers.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    I really like https://www.connectedpapers.com/ for visualizing the connections between papers and topics that go beyond simple cross-referencing.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    This site also seems to miscontrue what an APC is, and has always struck me as just papering over the problems in the publishing industry. For example: Some journals are open access (ie anyone can read the papers) and require a $2,500 APC t
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    I'm currently working on my PhD and I'm familiar with this list and site. In my field at least (geoscience), there are very very few high-quality journals on this list. The available journals basically fall into two categories: ex
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    >Everyone else is engaging in inane one-line comments and meme posts because the new interface does not encourage substantial, nuanced discussion How does the old interface (which I use) differ at all in terms of encouraging nuanced disc
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    The coordinate system changes from equirectangular to polar stereo. The poles just don't get good imagery from the MRO. I work extensively with HiRISE data which is collected from the same orbiter as the CTX data this map uses.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    They primarily use CTX, but HiRISE has the highest resolution, 0.25-0.5m/pixel.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    I mean it's on you since you're making the assertion.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    Please link to any of these 'large structures' otherwise we'll just continue to assume this is being pulled from your ass.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    Assuming this is even in good faith, can you link any images or data of these supposed structures? I spend hours a day examining HiRISE/CTX imagery and have never seen anything like you're asserting.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    I'm a PhD candidate studying Mars, happy to debunk any structures you can supply.
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    by OmicronCeti 5y ago

    To be perfectly honest they're not that mysterious. In the Martian science community they're called araneiforms, and the biological origin hypothesis is fairly fringe. Lots of good reading in these papers: - "The formation of
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    by OmicronCeti 6y ago

    Basically everything quanta writes is so good. They have some of the best science writers around in my opinion, and their efforts to make science and discovery accessible to non-experts and the public is admirable. I highly recommend their