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by goodcanadian 1y ago
A music festival has tens of thousands of attendees. A large conference might have a few hundred . . . and not all conferences are large.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Then how comes the neutron stars collapse into black holes despite obeying the exclusion principle? Different exclusion principle. For neutron stars, it is the Pauli exclusion principle (IIRC) which creates neutron degeneracy pressure. En
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Does it also follow that black holes in our universe contain universes internally, beyond their event horizons?! Not necessarily. It's not clear that any are massive enough to cross the threshold required for the "bounce."
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
Probably . . . from what I have read in the past, a better understanding of radio direction finding probably would have been enough to get them to Howland Island.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
If I already understood the material, assignments became busywork that took time away from learning other things. I was not there for grades; I was there to learn. For this reason, I rarely did the assignments and I willingly took the hit t
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
From my own university experience . . . admittedly, many years ago . . . for me, the assignments were a distraction from learning. Regardless, it's not the professor's job to force students to learn; it's the student's j
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I would remind everyone that congress sets the budget. This is merely a proposal from the president. The proposal is regularly ignored. Nothing has been cancelled, yet, merely proposed to be cancelled.
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
I rarely/never saw mercator projection as a kid. I think I probably saw mostly Robinson projection[1] as it seems that is what national geographic was using at the time. Mercator looks so completely wrong to me; I don't know why s
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by goodcanadian 1y ago
That has been the case with international flights for my entire life . . . I suspect longer.
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
I grew up on a farm. Farmers as a class are not stupid, at least no more so than any other group of people I've dealt with. They do have different interests and priorities than city dwelling people which tend to be better represented b
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
If I am not mistaken, the trade still has to be reported after the fact. What they are avoiding is leaking signals about what they want to trade before the trade occurs.
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Musk says first mission to Mars will launch next year(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by goodcanadian 2y ago|12 comments
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Woolly mice designed to engineer mammoth-like elephants(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by goodcanadian 2y ago|1 comments
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Meta plans globe-spanning sub-sea internet cable(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by goodcanadian 2y ago|3 comments
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
The point is that military officers have an obligation to disobey when the situation warrants it.
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First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2k years(bbc.co.uk)
144 points by goodcanadian 2y ago|81 comments
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
The whole purpose of Gaia is to precisely measure the position of stars (and other objects). Once positions are known, a 3D model can be built. But how are the distances measured? The answer is parallax, essentially triangulation. You look
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
Grozny was not under fog.
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
That is correct. IIRC, Bermuda is also part of the agreement, and I would be very much surprised if Ireland doesn't operate on the same rules.
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
I would argue higher legal accountability as they are subject to the host country's laws. If you are at a US airport, you are at the whim of US border officials. If you are at a Canadian airport, you have the right to turn around and l
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Why nuclear power is so hot right now(cbc.ca)
2 points by goodcanadian 2y ago|0 comments
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
1. Doing research is exactly the purpose of NASA. 2. I'm highly sceptical of the idea that space mining will be an economically profitable activity in the near future and even more sceptical of the idea that nation states on Earth won&
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
No, an Earth-mass object forming on its own would not be considered a brown dwarf, but an Earth-mass object is incredibly unlikely to form on its own. An object that small will have almost certainly been formed in an accretion disk and be
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
The ones "forming on their own" would be essentially brown dwarfs. As myself and others have said, the line is fuzzy. However, to form on their own there needs to be sufficient density for them to coalesce. It is not a hard limit,
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
Do you have a cite on that? Off the top of my head, no, but I do have a degree in astronomy and an interest going back to childhood.
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
What and how are most definitely not the same thing. They aren't necessarily even related: If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results. George S. Patton
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
Is this really the standard terminology? Well, it is close enough. The definition is that a brown dwarf forms like a star through gravitational collapse within a protostellar nebula, but it just wasn't massive enough to ignite. Howev
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Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar(bbc.co.uk)
97 points by goodcanadian 2y ago|90 comments
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
Mongols ruled China around that time.
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by goodcanadian 2y ago
From the article, males swim over fairly frequently, but usually leave again when they find no females. So, there is a regular opportunity to add to the gene pool. What is newsworthy is that there is now at least one female there (sexes of

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