On 7/13/2022 at 12:38 PM, DaEagles4Life said:

 

Meanwhile Jerry is still trying to land an gig in advertising.

Side by side comparisons of Hubble to Webb telescope images.

https://www.webbcompare.com/

 

Damn, the difference is massive on that shot of the southern ring nebula

 

I have a quasi-serious question and/or quest for anyone willing to take up the challenge.

I'm trying to identify the name or designation, if any, of the bright diffracted object (circled in red) in the Webb field.

I know that the image was focused on the  SMACS 0723 "galaxy cluster" but I would like to know the particular name of that object, be it a galaxy, an individual star, or Bertrand Russell's teapot.

I'm normally adept at this sort of thing but so far I've come up with bugger all.

If you'd kindly help, I'm trying to impress an LCC lass nearly thirty years my junior who has a superficial, yet adorable fascination with astronomy... or as she calls it, "spacey stuff".

37 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said:

I have a quasi-serious question and/or quest for anyone willing to take up the challenge.

I'm trying to identify the name or designation, if any, of the bright diffracted object (circled in red) in the Webb field.

I know that the image was focused on the  SMACS 0723 "galaxy cluster" but I would like to know the particular name of that object, be it a galaxy, an individual star, or Bertrand Russell's teapot.

I'm normally adept at this sort of thing but so far I've come up with bugger all.

If you'd kindly help, I'm trying to impress an LCC lass nearly thirty years my junior who has a superficial, yet adorable fascination with astronomy... or as she calls it, "spacey stuff".

lick her snappy til she begs you to stop

 

ywia

Just now, NCTANK said:

lick her snappy til she begs you to stop

Or just make up a name....M823. Then get it wet and move on with your life.

Well, this just buggers all .

I always wanted to see if I could propel myself backward like throwing a medicine ball in ice skates.

F you NASA 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/nasa-scientist-explains-why-astronauts-should-not-****e-in-zero-gravity/news-story/134ec46569c651b6ad874d08feed1b73

 

1 hour ago, Arthur Jackson said:

Well, this just buggers all .

I always wanted to see if I could propel myself backward like throwing a medicine ball in ice skates.

F you NASA 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/nasa-scientist-explains-why-astronauts-should-not-****e-in-zero-gravity/news-story/134ec46569c651b6ad874d08feed1b73

 

There are strict guidelines over "alone-time” onboard in zero gravity. Scientists have warned even the slightest rouge droplet could cause chaos on board.

I mean, if you're ejaculating blood that's bad...

23 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

There are strict guidelines over "alone-time” onboard in zero gravity. Scientists have warned even the slightest rouge droplet could cause chaos on board.

I mean, if you're ejaculating blood that's bad...

I had assumed "rouge" droplet was referring to what was picked up on the ricochet off a target female astronaut's cheek

 

 

People should be executed over this. 

 

 

Ancient Science News!

I get a kick out of every launch.

I guess the lizard overlords have programmed me to respond that way to the fake NASA  CGI.

 

 

Crazies: "The scientists are trying to turn us all into zombies with these needles they keep wanting to jab us with. Don't let them inject you with that secret serum!"

Me: "Don't be ridiculous, scientists aren't trying to create zombies."

Scientists: 

 

13 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Crazies: "The scientists are trying to turn us all into zombies with these needles they keep wanting to jab us with. Don't let them inject you with that secret serum!"

Me: "Don't be ridiculous, scientists aren't trying to create zombies."

Scientists: 

 

I, for one, welcome our new pig zombie overlords

6 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I, for one, welcome our new pig zombie overlords

 

Pig zombies.

 

I did not see the apocalypse starting with pig zombies.

 

3 hours ago, TEW said:

 

Guessing there is a LIBERAL ASSHAT gene then? 

11 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

Guessing there is a LIBERAL ASSHAT gene then? 

 

26 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

Guessing there is a LIBERAL ASSHAT gene then? 

There is a strong hereditary correlation with politics, yes.

Quote

Abstract

Almost forty years ago, evidence from large studies of adult twins and their relatives suggested that between 30-60% of the variance in social and political attitudes could be explained by genetic influences. However, these findings have not been widely accepted or incorporated into the dominant paradigms that explain the etiology of political ideology. This has been attributed in part to measurement and sample limitations, as well the relative absence of molecular genetic studies. Here we present results from original analyses of a combined sample of over 12,000 twins pairs, ascertained from nine different studies conducted in five democracies, sampled over the course of four decades. We provide evidence that genetic factors play a role in the formation of political ideology, regardless of how ideology is measured, the era, or the population sampled. The only exception is a question that explicitly uses the phrase "Left-Right”. We then present results from one of the first genome-wide association studies on political ideology using data from three samples: a 1990 Australian sample involving 6,894 individuals from 3,516 families; a 2008 Australian sample of 1,160 related individuals from 635 families and a 2010 Swedish sample involving 3,334 individuals from 2,607 families. No polymorphisms reached genome-wide significance in the meta-analysis. The combined evidence suggests that political ideology constitutes a fundamental aspect of one’s genetically informed psychological disposition, but as Fisher proposed long ago, genetic influences on complex traits will be composed of thousands of markers of very small effects and it will require extremely large samples to have enough power in order to identify specific polymorphisms related to complex social traits.

More than half a century of research in genetics, neuroscience and psychology has demonstrated that human behaviors, including social and political attitudes, are influenced by genetic and neurobiological factors (for a review see Hatemi and McDermott 2012a). Lindon Eaves, Hans Eysenck and Nicholas Martin pioneered this radical departure, finding that genetic variance accounted for a substantial portion of individual differences in conservatism, sub-dimensions of social, economic and defense ideologies, as well as individual social and political attitudes (Eaves and Eysenck 1974; Martin et al. 1986; Eaves et al. 1989). Additional twin and extended kinship studies which included parents, non-twin siblings, spouses, and twins reared apart confirmed these earlier results and found that most individual political attitudes were influenced by a combination of genetic effects (which explain between 30 and 60% of variance) and environmental influence (Truett et al. 1994; Eaves et al. 1999; Bouchard and McGue 2003; Hatemi et al. 2010). In this way, children resemble their parents because of their genetic relatedness as much as parental upbringing and social environments.

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/#abstract-1title

Mining oxygen on Mars.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/historic-box-on-mars-is-making-oxygen-at-the-rate-of-one-tree/

Science is suffering from the woke madness.  This lady is the Chief Editor of Nature Human Behavior which is a place for peer reviewed science articles covering all aspects of human behavior.

I guess this post can also go in the crazy lib thread.