TheBlight

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The continued search for interstellar meteors(markbeef.substack.com)
2 points by TheBlight 2y ago|0 comments
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I don't anticipate conventional institutions regaining academic credibility nor returning to former prominence vs. new learning and academic models continuing to disrupt them.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I don't think discussion will be productive if we're not capable of temporarily setting aside emotion.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Is there evidence any of these deaths were the result of foul play?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40547368
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I don't know that a canonical conspiracy is required. I could imagine an emergent symbiosis of different parties. Eg. The media likes clicks and some NGOs don't like air travel. I'm not saying this is the case just that it m
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Maybe it is to some extent but I'm seeing a more general pattern wrt commercial air travel coverage. There's the turbulence stories and the "near collision" stories. It's possible every aspect of the air travel sys
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I have no idea what's going on but it feels to me like this somewhat recent popular media anti-Boeing campaign isn't strictly organic.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Wasn't there an X window manager that you could skin in the same way?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Does it really matter?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
TIL people were concerned with mortgage quality prior to 2008.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I thought the entire point of Bluesky was that it was to be decentralized? Did that change?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I don't think that's accurate. 42 km/s is purely a function of the Sun's mass and the distance of Earth's orbit. If we used the Earth's orbital speed (~30 km/s) and launched from Earth in that continued di
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It was likely way too small to have been detected prior to impacting the atmosphere.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It was definitely moving fast. After a quick browse, only 2 other fireballs were moving at least that fast in the CNEOS catalog ( https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/ ). It would be interesting to know its velocity comp
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by TheBlight 2y ago
>travelling at roughly 28 miles per second. That's (~45 km/s) pretty close to the Sun's escape velocity from Earth (~42 km/s). I wonder if there's a chance it's interstellar.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
You sort of have to read between the lines with popular science reporting. Prior to the event, the gas cloud was spotted and it was big news in the media as this would effectively be an empirical test of black hole theory and we'd get
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I'm willing to give the mods the benefit of the doubt that this was flagged in the assumption it would turn into a low-signal mess but I don't agree with the decision given the comments so far don't seem particularly low valu
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by TheBlight 2y ago
That may be true but I don't think it has much to do with the reluctance to discuss the issue (or to actively play down the importance of it when discussed.)
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Complaining about crime is right-coded so it could lead to social complications which incentivizes people to stay silent about it.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381317
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I'm not advocating for any given alternative model really. I primarily want to call out that we're not really sure what we mean when we say "black hole" and there is good reason to be at least a little skeptical-- especi
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by TheBlight 2y ago
That would be perfectly lovely for me if that was actually the attitude of most people weighing in on these discussions. But in practice, when it's insinuated that a more beloved sci-fi model may perhaps be incorrect/incoherent it
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Laura Mersini-Houghton and Roy Kerr seem like very good sources to me. Are you familiar with their work? It seems not. A "black hole" implies a singularity behind an event horizon not even light can escape from. There isn't a
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by TheBlight 2y ago
FWIW, it's not clear that SgA* is actually a canonical black hole (nor that even such a thing truly exists in nature.) The EHT image is taken as confirmation but the accuracy of that technique has been called into question: https:&#x2
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Interesting looking book. I'll have to check it out. In my experience, discussing this material online tends to devolve into an atheist/theist debate. Both sides are very sure of themselves and it isn't about exploration and
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by TheBlight 2y ago
If given the choice of knowing: A) How (a)biogensis happens B) Is there life elsewhere I'd pick B.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Pretty sure the radiation will be a bigger deal.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
The reaction will be interesting.

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