February 20, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, Toastrel said: Funny how all those celestial objects are visibly spherical. I thought this was too good for the Flat Earth thread. Yeah but you just literally posted a video of ice walls
February 21, 20232 yr 7 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: Unfortunately there are many difficulties after a stroke. This his not one of his. Nice gif though. 👍
February 21, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Talkingbirds said: Unfortunately there are many difficulties after a stroke. This his not one of his. Nice gif though. 👍 I'm just being a dick. I'm sure you're right.
February 21, 20232 yr 31 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: I'm just being a dick. I'm sure you're right. I’m sorry, it hit a personal note. I enjoy the humor as much as everyone one else. Wasn’t scolding. Just pointing out the difference, between your limey stale humor and something really funny. 😝
February 21, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, Talkingbirds said: I’m sorry, it hit a personal note. I enjoy the humor as much as everyone one else. Wasn’t scolding. Just pointing out the difference, between your limey stale humor and something really funny. 😝 You can scold. I need to be scolded. I need the Prime Minister of Finland to step on my cubes like she's stomping out a brush fire .
February 22, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, Arthur Jackson said: I need the Prime Minister of Finland to step on my cubes like she's stomping out a brush fire .
February 22, 20232 yr On 2/20/2023 at 1:13 PM, Arthur Jackson said: btw @Toastrel I went to that "space porn" page - what a letdown Here you go: Spoiler
March 4, 20232 yr holy Ozymandias, Batman! https://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-tenders/new-murabba-11-facts-you-didnt-know
March 8, 20232 yr https://spacecoastlaunches.com/watch-live/ Watch Relativity Space launch Terran 1, world's 1st 3D-printed rocket, on debut flight today
March 8, 20232 yr NASA's probe orbiting Mars Has Just Released 2000+ Mind-blowing New Photos of the Red Planet https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2022/11/nasas-probe-orbiting-mars-has-just.html
March 14, 20232 yr https://hazen.carnegiescience.edu/sites/hazen.gl.ciw.edu/files/242-Hazen-AmMin-2008.pdf "Biological processes began to affect Earth's surface mineralogy by the Eoarchean Era (~3.85-3.6 Ga), when large-scale surface mineral deposits, including banded iron formations, were precipitated under the influences of changing atmospheric and ocean chemistry. The Paleoproterozoic "Great Oxidation Event" (~2.2 to 2.0 Ga), when atmospheric oxygen may have risen to >1% of modern levels, and the Neoproterozoic increase in atmospheric oxygen, which followed several major glaciation events, ultimately gave rise to multicellular life and skeletal biomineralization and irreversibly transformed Earth's surface mineralogy. Biochemical processes may thus be responsible, directly or indirectly, for most of Earth's 4300 known mineral species."
March 15, 20232 yr Could the Jack-o-lope be next ? https://www.iflscience.com/mini-antlers-grown-on-mice-heads-after-scientists-implant-deer-cells-67977
March 15, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Talkingbirds said: Could the Jack-o-lope be next ? https://www.iflscience.com/mini-antlers-grown-on-mice-heads-after-scientists-implant-deer-cells-67977 Nature is way ahead of you:
March 15, 20232 yr I want to recreate Thomas Young's famous double slit experiment but I can't find a decent set of twins.
March 15, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: I want to recreate Thomas Young's famous double slit experiment but I can't find a decent set of twins.
March 16, 20232 yr https://books.google.com/books?id=orKKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false "...Equally rich in meteorites, though far less conducive to organized recovery and sterile curation, are Earth's great deserts in Australia, the American Southwest, the Arabian Peninsula, and most dramatically, North Africa—the vast Sahara Desert. Word has spread among Sahara-crossing nomads—Tuaregs, Berbers, Fezzanis—that meteorites can be valuable. A single precious lunar meteorite found somewhere in the shifting sands of North Africa early in the twenty-first century is reputed to have fetched a million dollars in a private sale. It's easy enough for a desert rider to get down off his camel and carry an odd stone to the next village, where someone from an unofficial guild of meteorite middlemen, networked by satellite phones and skilled in hyperbole, will offer him a pittance in cash. From one dealer to the next, bags of rocks are passed, each time with a markup, until they reach Marrakech, Rabat, or Cairo and thence travel to the buyers on eBay and the big international rock and mineral shows. More than once on geology trips to remote parts of Morocco, I've been offered burlap bags filled with ten or twenty pounds of rocks purported to be meteorites—“no middlemen, fresh from the desert, just found last week.” These cash-only "deals” are often brokered in dingy, windowless backrooms of tan mud-brick houses, away from the blazing desert Sun, where it's almost impossible to see what's being offered. Once the formalities of greeting and the traditional cups of mint tea have been shared, the seller dumps the contents on a carpet. Some of the rocks are just rocks. Ballast. It's like a test to see if you know your stuff. A few will be the commonest sort of chondrite, the size of an olive or an egg, some with a nicely melted fusion crust, the fiery result of falling fast through the sky. The starting price is always way too high. If you say they're too common, a second, smaller bag may appear, perhaps with an iron meteorite or something even more exotic. I recall one deal worked by our guide, Abdullah, on a dusty side road a few miles east of Skoura. The seller, a distant acquaintance of questionable integrity, called by satellite and demanded secrecy. "It might be a Martian,” he told Abdullah. "Nine hundred grams. Just twenty thousand dirhams.” About $2,400—if it was real, if it could be added to the two dozen or so known meteorites that came from Mars, it'd be a bargain. They arranged the time and place. Two non descript cars pulled up beside each other; three of us got out and stood in a tight circle. The rock in question was lovingly slipped from a velvet pouch. But it looked like an ordinary rock (as do all Martian meteorites). The price dropped to fifteen thousand dirhams. Then twelve thousand. But there was no way to be sure, so we passed. Later Abdullah confided to me that he had been tempted, but there are always more meteorites. It's best not to be too greedy with one big score; no one tells the truth, and all deals are final..."
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