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by cowboysauce 6y ago
The authors of the paper estimated that at least 200 times more volcanic activity than what’s present on the Earth would be required to release that much phosphine into the atmosphere. It’s almost certain that there are active volcanos on V
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
This is incorrect, meteorites can skip off the Earth’s atmosphere. The 1972 great daylight fireball is an example of such an object.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Not really. Phosphine is broken down by UV light so having it be concentrated higher in the atmosphere, where it's exposed to more UV light, would be difficult to explain via transport from a lower altitude source.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>Given that Venus' atmosphere is a complex mixture held at very high temperature and pressure, the "sign" seems pretty weak here. The phosphine signal is coming from a portion of Venus' atmosphere that has pressure an
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>The history channel is not complete trash. They have good experts on there and their productions are beautiful The History channel uncritically presents any wild ideas that get them viewers. Here are some of the things they presented du
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> The first known radar observations of a confirmed tornado were made at the Illinois State Water Survey on the 9th of April 1953. http://www.chill.colostate.edu/w/CHILL_history#The_First_Tor...
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
One thing that the article hints at, but doesn't explicitly say is that "children" probably doesn't mean literal children, but may mean something more along the line of "citizen" or "young adult".
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Was the existence of tornadoes really ever in doubt? I mean the connection between tornadoes and hook echos on weather radar has been know since at least the 50s and Ted Fujita is well known for his work on tornadoes during the 70s. I was r
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Growing up I was really into UFOs and watching UFO documentaries is still a guilty pleasure of mine. One of the things that struck me is that people who investigate UFOs are their own worst enemies. Often, while watching documentaries, peop
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
In this context irreversibility means that once the drug binds with its target, it's done. It can't unbind.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I would 100% live in a tornado prone region over an earthquake prone region. Tornadoes, by their nature are small and very localized. An EF5 tornado could pass within a few hundred feet of your house and you'd come out essentially unsc
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Bob Lazar has never produced any evidence that corroborates his story. He has never demonstrated that he has the level of knowledge in physics that he claims he has. He has never produced a copy of his master's thesis. The colleges tha
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Are any of those from sun-like stars? The ones listed all seem to involve white dwarfs.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>"We haven't picked a place yet, but it's going to be closer to the East Coast than the West Coast,” Karp said during the interview. “If I had to guess, I would guess something like Colorado." Geography is apparently
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
You seem to have some pretty fundamental misunderstandings about strength training. Even very intense programs can be undertaken without turning into an immobile blob of muscle. Strength is gained not only through hypertrophy but also throu
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>Outdoors is not only safer but also more pleasant. Speak for yourself. I live in a hot and humid place and exercising outside is incredibly unpleasant. It's 10 times worse if you're standing in direct sunlight. >Calistenics
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I tried doing body weight workouts during the lockdown and it all felt extremely unsatisfying and ersatz after being used to my normal strength workouts. I also struggled not to lose muscle mass that had taken me a long time to build up.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Being outdoors isn't the same as sun exposure though. In particular, I can imagine that homeless people cover up more to prevent sunburn. Additionally, just being homeless might cause a depletion of vitamin D. In general, I can imagine
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I always thought that was exactly the point, an acknowledgment that children and teenagers sometimes do stupid things, but there’s a big difference between doing some graffiti vs raping and murdering someone when you’re 15.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
How is HCQ's effects on malaria even remotely relevant? Malaria is caused by a eukaryote parasite and SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus. They're radically different and unless you have some sources demonstrating some sort of biochemical
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I've seen extremely cheap guitars that will noticeably fall out of tune after playing them for only a few minutes.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
I'm extremely skeptical about the claims that COVID-19 is going to cause a long term mass exodus from cities. Of course cities are less attractive places to live when everything is closed down. But if that makes city living less attrac
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> How come, since we know so much, not produce a mechanism that counteracts the virus? The virus hijacks existing cellular mechanisms for its own purposes. Interfering with those mechanisms could halt the replication of the virus, but it
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
In the exact same way that every country in the world operates. The tribal government sets the criteria that must be met to be a member of the tribe.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
> Because computers operate on the rational numbers instead of the real numbers, Computers are just devices that perform computations. It's perfectly possible to construct computers that operate on values that are continuous and not
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
All those things that you've mentioned provide data that is used to measure the health of bird populations and can serve as an early warning if those populations start to drop. Tagging also allows biologists to determine the routes tak
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
The article is behind a paywall so I'm curious as to how the authors of the paper distinguished between "introverts prefer mountains" vs "introverts prefer solitude and mountainous regions are more likely to be less popu
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
>How does the spent fuel get aerosolized and into the atmosphere? I'm not an expert, but fuel reprocessing is generally done is an aqueous state. The widely used PUREX process, for example, starts with dissolving the spent fuel in n
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
Ruthenium-103 has a half-life of 39 days.
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by cowboysauce 6y ago
In the United States, there were periods of time where Irish and Italian people were discriminated against. Yet today, the idea that an Irish people is part of the out-group and wouldn't fit in a workplace is completely out-dated. The

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