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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
08-10-2023, 03:27 PM
(08-08-2023, 04:55 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: (08-02-2023, 07:11 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: (07-26-2023, 09:29 PM)Labster Wrote: Breaking Superconductor News - Dr. Derek Lowe gives us a somewhat less technical description of the news from yesterday.
Cheap materials, not hard for labs everywhere to make samples, and a critical temperature of 121°C. Yes please! We’re all on pins and needles waiting for replication.
Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing
Or maybe not...
Nope, probably not.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
08-10-2023, 04:18 PM
Yeah, when even Popular Mechanics debunks it, it's probably pretty solid. Ah well.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
08-18-2023, 01:26 PM
(08-10-2023, 03:27 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: (08-08-2023, 04:55 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: (08-02-2023, 07:11 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: (07-26-2023, 09:29 PM)Labster Wrote: Breaking Superconductor News - Dr. Derek Lowe gives us a somewhat less technical description of the news from yesterday.
Cheap materials, not hard for labs everywhere to make samples, and a critical temperature of 121°C. Yes please! We’re all on pins and needles waiting for replication.
Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing
Or maybe not...
Nope, probably not.
And an article on how it was determined that LK-99 isn't a superconductor, but just ferromagnetic.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
08-20-2023, 06:44 PM
Ferromagnetic without involving any of the ferromagnetic metals, too, if I understand things correctly.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
08-20-2023, 07:16 PM
Yes, which is in itself pretty interesting, but not as interesting as a room temperature superconductor would have been.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
08-23-2023, 04:07 PM
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08-23-2023, 04:36 PM
(08-23-2023, 04:07 PM)robkelk Wrote: India becomes fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
09-02-2023, 01:15 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
09-12-2023, 04:04 PM
Life detected?
Methane. Carbon Dioxide. Both indicative of a water ocean.
Sitting in the habitable zone of its star.
*possibly* Dimethyl Sulphide - only produced on Earth by life. It's still to be confirmed.
Kepler K2-18 b may - possibly - just maybe - harbour some potential signs of life. If we check again.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
09-15-2023, 04:27 PM
Hybrid between Pampas Fox and Dog (1st ever fox-dog hybrid)
Pampas foxes are Lycalopex (false Fox) - they're more closely related to wolves, but outside the Canis genus.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
09-28-2023, 06:39 AM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
09-28-2023, 04:43 PM
This would seem to be experimental evidence that antimatter is subject to gravity the same way normal matter is.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
10-12-2023, 08:40 AM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
10-12-2023, 01:03 PM
(10-12-2023, 08:40 AM)robkelk Wrote: ... both feared vaporized
<big innocent eyes> Who, the astronomers?
<grin>
I'm surprised you didn't use "When Worlds Collide" as the title of that post.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
10-14-2023, 09:16 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
10-22-2023, 11:59 PM
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11-03-2023, 11:33 AM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
11-07-2023, 07:36 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
11-11-2023, 09:26 AM
The Register: US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft
First, it looks like somebody read Chris Hadfield's latest novel and remembered what they were doing at Jackass Lake a half-century ago.
Second:
Quote:Under the military lab's Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) High Power program,
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
11-15-2023, 03:00 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
11-15-2023, 04:19 PM
Thank you, Ozone Layer. Us down here in the Bozo Layer are trying to get better; it's good to know you still love us despite everything.
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
12-04-2023, 08:08 PM
The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night":
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
12-09-2023, 07:50 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
12-18-2023, 01:55 PM
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RE: Weird & Interesting science, take 2
12-21-2023, 01:48 PM
Technically, the Solstice is on the 22nd here.
By a grand total of 1 second, 22nd December is the shorter day. The actual Solstice is at about 3 in the morning tomorrow, so the 21st is still the American solstice.
It's pedantry of the highest order.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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