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by stargazer-3 11y ago
According to a recent study on the current usage of programming languages in astronomy - http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989 - Fortran, quite popular in the old days, is still used by a quarter of scientists in the field. P
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by stargazer-3 11y ago
Good catch! But I think the jagged edges there result from an arbitrary clipping of the brightness values, done to remove the "noise" pixels, i.e. to make the space look darker. If that's the case, it isn't the resolutio
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by stargazer-3 11y ago
If you check the caption you'll see that it's an infrared color image (except for the blue channel, which is in red 600um). Therefore the picture is probably more sensitive to the surface temperature variations, and, consecutively
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by stargazer-3 11y ago
"Sumail started playing Dota 2 as a 7-year-old. Now 16, he’s still..." Dota 2 was released in 2013.
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by stargazer-3 12y ago
As an astronomer who works on infrared data every day, I am really grateful for everything you guys are doing. What kind of simulation software are you developing?
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by stargazer-3 12y ago
If you check their how-to-see-the-milky-way section, they give a timetable of what they mean by summer and winter in the two hemispheres.
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Bigelow Inflatable Module Launching to ISS Next Year(space.com)
1 points by stargazer-3 12y ago|0 comments
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by stargazer-3 12y ago
On my second try, determined to find out how it works, I drew a random smiley shape in grey box area. Painting was added to the list! Was so disappointed to find out it was a coincidence.
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
Not sure how important is the role of a patent system here. In theoretical physics and astronomy, despite having no need for patenting, the problem still persists. I would say that the standard university publish-or-perish model seems to be
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
Fixed the title. Didn't realize it was ambiguous.
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The Facebook Fraud, by Veritasium(youtube.com)
21 points by stargazer-3 13y ago|5 comments
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
Association pact is a purely economical agreement that is mediated by governments only. So no, he did not violate anything. However, 42% of the population supports European integration, while only 31% wants to join the Customs Union, seen a
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
Ukraine has no nukes. They were disarmed in exchange for security assurances from both Russia and USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
I have to disagree with you. Care to elaborate on what facts are made-up?
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
Why don't Americans split the USA into two parts, the red one and the blue one?
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
This is much more informative and complete than any Western media news report. (Disclosure: I grew up in Kiev)
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
Why shouldn't it be? Except for the question of the presence of life Venus is a much more exciting planet to study, with thick atmosphere with high-speed winds and it's shrouded surface. It might be suitable for human colonization
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
It's not odd. To me it is only logical to assume that if we can explain most physical phenomena, the trend may very well be extended to the rest of them. Besides, one can find a surprising amount of symmetry, simplicity and beauty in t
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
That's why I think that China, given time, might be in a better position for Mars colonization. Democracy is afraid of bold moves in space, while the Chinese regime will see it as a long-term chance to bolster it's position in the
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
To make it even more complicated, people from different counties react differently to hugging. Taiwanese, for example, often seem be quite uncomfortable with it.
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
If by an "amount of space there actually is" you mean observable Universe, then we can see a pretty darn big chunk of it, considering that the space is mostly empty. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no way of knowing if there is
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
I'll add up to my comment: the other wavelengths have the arc shifted, which would mean that the observation is performed from a different location or (more likely) at a different time of the year.
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
I may be wrong here, but they could be the observations blocked by the Sun, with that arc being the Sun's track on a sky.
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
It is the Universe from our point of view. All the observations span through an entire sky, which makes it the map of the Universe.
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View the Universe in different wavelengths(astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk)
114 points by stargazer-3 13y ago|28 comments
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by stargazer-3 13y ago
As a first-year master student in astronomy, I fully agree with you.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
They did (except for orcs and hobbits), but if not for LotR, they would not appear in popular fiction as they are appearing now. Besides, the comment above looks like it's disagreeing with originality of hobbits.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
A quick note about elves: it's a misconception that before Tolkien's work an elf was pictured as a fey. Nordic elves were very Tolkien-ish, for example.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
Would you care to expand a little bit here? I tend to think that most of the races were original.
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by stargazer-3 14y ago
I am Ukrainian and I disagree with you strongly, mainly because of your out-of-blueish 99%. Traditional culture is very different. As for an urban one, while Eastern and Southern regions are similar in very aspects to Russia indeed, they

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