1 hour ago, mr_hunt said:

 

barely a blip in today's political/media climate. 

Who's Ms. Mace? 

Blimey!

Saw this tweet this morning about the UFO whistleblower and turns out the pentaverate was behind this all along. Seems like a well-grounded and really stable fellow.

 

"1933 was the first recovery in Europe, in Magenta, Italy,” he told NewsNation Sunday. "They recovered a partially intact vehicle, and the Italian government moved it to a secure airbase in Italy until around 1944-1945”

"The Pope back-channeled that and told the Americans what the Italians had and we ended up scooping it,” Grusch said of the alleged post-war mission.

The so-called whistleblower claimed that the Vatican was "certainly” aware of alien existence and that UFO sightings over Italy during Musolini’s dictatorship were widely known.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/13/pentagon-whistleblower-claims-vatican-helped-us-retrive-ufo-from-mussolini/

You mean we shouldn't trust a guy that believes in werewolves? 

 

Oh, and they say that Foo Fighters weren't real...the evidence is out there...do your research!!

Spoiler

 

I'm guessing at least some of the science crowd might be into history too.

 

Periscope Films has some incredible footage.

 

 

I'm astounded by solar videos.

This info about UFOs that is being revealed is something the US top military agencies had known for decades.

The reason they revealing this now is for a diversion, something else is happening behind scenes, they need the avg joes to be looking away....

21 minutes ago, Jeep_man said:

This info about UFOs that is being revealed is something the US top military agencies had known for decades.

The reason they revealing this now is for a diversion, something else is happening behind scenes, they need the avg joes to be looking away....

 

Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission, new book reveals

https://www.space.com/queen-brian-may-osiris-rex-asteroid-book

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May, who holds a PhD in astronomy, had previously collaborated with the science teams behind Europe's comet-chasing Rosetta probe and NASA's Pluto explorer New Horizons. He joined the OSIRIS-REx team in January 2019, a few months after the probe reached its destination, after striking up a friendship with Lauretta over shared interests. But Lauretta, although a lifelong Queen fan, said he wasn't interested in having a free-loading celebrity on board just for publicity and expected the rock star to earn his keep. 

As it turned out, May's skill set came with serendipitous timing. May's interest is in stereoscopic imaging, a technique that involves capturing pairs of photographs in a way that they would appear when viewed by a two-eyed creature, such as a human being. Stereoscopic cameras separated by a set distance that take images of the same object from slightly different angles are commonly used to generate such views. When looked at through 3D glasses, the captured scenes emerge in three vivid dimensions, allowing viewers to perceive the depth and distance between the structures in the image. 

In the year of 39

Betting market went up to 50% on some news about superconductor replication successes..

https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-temp-ambient-pre

 

Rundown: 

 

 

 

 

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor.

Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics.
 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892)

Here's the plain-english explanation:
- The simulations modeled what the original Korean authors proposed was happening to their material - where copper atoms were percolating into a crystal structure and replacing lead atoms, causing the crystal to strain slightly and contract by 0.5%. This unique structure was proposed to allow this amazing property. 

- 
@sineatrix
 from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute power from the Department of Energy, and looked to see what would happen to the 'electronic structure' of this material, meaning, what are the available conduction pathways in the material. 

- It turns out that there are conduction pathways for electrons that are in just the right conditions and places that would enable them to 'superconduct'. More specifically, they were close to the 'Fermi Surface' which is like the sea-level of electrical energy, as in '0 ft above sea-level.' It's believed currently that the more conduction pathways close to the Fermi surface, the higher the temperature you can superconduct at (An analogy might be how its easier for planes to fly close to the surface of the ocean due to the 'ground effect' that gives them more lift.)

This plot in particular shows the 'bands', or electron pathways, crossing above and below the Fermi surface. 

- Lastly, these interesting conduction pathways only form when the copper atom percolates into the less likely location in the crystal lattice, or the 'higher energy' binding site. This means the material would be difficult to synthesize since only a small fraction of crystal gets its copper in just the right location. 

This is insanely bullish for humanity.

If it wasn't clear why this is a big deal, if successful LK-99 would be a watershed moment for humanity easily on-par with invention of the transistor. 

 

good...we need the tech to defend ourselves against an alien invasion! 

2 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

good...we need the tech to defend ourselves against an alien invasion! 

31 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

 

 

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor.

Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics.
 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892)

Here's the plain-english explanation:
- The simulations modeled what the original Korean authors proposed was happening to their material - where copper atoms were percolating into a crystal structure and replacing lead atoms, causing the crystal to strain slightly and contract by 0.5%. This unique structure was proposed to allow this amazing property. 

- 
@sineatrix
 from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute power from the Department of Energy, and looked to see what would happen to the 'electronic structure' of this material, meaning, what are the available conduction pathways in the material. 

- It turns out that there are conduction pathways for electrons that are in just the right conditions and places that would enable them to 'superconduct'. More specifically, they were close to the 'Fermi Surface' which is like the sea-level of electrical energy, as in '0 ft above sea-level.' It's believed currently that the more conduction pathways close to the Fermi surface, the higher the temperature you can superconduct at (An analogy might be how its easier for planes to fly close to the surface of the ocean due to the 'ground effect' that gives them more lift.)

This plot in particular shows the 'bands', or electron pathways, crossing above and below the Fermi surface. 

- Lastly, these interesting conduction pathways only form when the copper atom percolates into the less likely location in the crystal lattice, or the 'higher energy' binding site. This means the material would be difficult to synthesize since only a small fraction of crystal gets its copper in just the right location. 

This is insanely bullish for humanity.

If it wasn't clear why this is a big deal, if successful LK-99 would be a watershed moment for humanity easily on-par with invention of the transistor. 

 

 

Haven't kept up to date on this, but it sounds like it was a simulation that provided a plausible explanation of electron flow. Though still no confirmed replication aside from a team in China that posted a video seemingly confirming meissner effect. Not much into materials physics but I think Argonne is the authoritative source on this domestically. If they say it's legit, then you can take it to the bank.

11 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Haven't kept up to date on this, but it sounds like it was a simulation that provided a plausible explanation of electron flow. Though still no confirmed replication aside from a team in China that posted a video seemingly confirming meissner effect. Not much into materials physics but I think Argonne is the authoritative source on this domestically. If they say it's legit, then you can take it to the bank.

Yes the US one was a simulation.

second & third unverified replication from China: 

 

And yes, ANL is trying to replicate.

8 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

And yes, ANL is trying to replicate.

Even if they (and other labs) come up short on reliable replication, it seems like this discovery still gets us much closer to understanding what it would take to develop an ambient temp/pressure superconductor. 

1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Even if they (and other labs) come up short on reliable replication, it seems like this discovery still gets us much closer to understanding what it would take to develop an ambient temp/pressure superconductor. 

It seems like at this stage there's also a bit of a crapshoot as to whether it ends up as a superconductor, which means there's some unknown variable(s) that still need to be teased out. But there seems to be smoke. 

My ceiling on theoretical physics is pretty low so I'm just trying to figure out how hyped I should be 🤣 but I feel like I should be somewhere just north of cautiously optimistic. (the last relevant course I took was material engineering which was less about physics than applied science for engineering purposes)

19 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

It seems like at this stage there's also a bit of a crapshoot as to whether it ends up as a superconductor, which means there's some unknown variable(s) that still need to be teased out. But there seems to be smoke. 

My ceiling on theoretical physics is pretty low so I'm just trying to figure out how hyped I should be 🤣 but I feel like I should be somewhere just north of cautiously optimistic. (the last relevant course I took was material engineering which was less about physics than applied science for engineering purposes)

Same, and I took it at the height of my partying days so my retention of what I was supposed to learn was real poor. The shame about college is that I was still just a dumb immature kid that should've taken it way more seriously than I did. Which sucks to realize as an adult because it's something I'd really love to go back now and retake some of those classes if time allowed. Such a huge opportunity to grow intellectually in such a few short years.

15 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Same, and I took it at the height of my partying days so my retention of what I was supposed to learn was real poor. The shame about college is that I was still just a dumb immature kid that should've taken it way more seriously than I did. Which sucks to realize as an adult because it's something I'd really love to go back now and retake some of those classes if time allowed. Such a huge opportunity to grow intellectually in such a few short years.

I would like to go back with the mentality and appreciation I have now but the mental sponginess and flexibility I had then.

An old man's lament.

Ya'll talking about aliens, ghosts or hobgoblins?  What did they discover?  Is it wizardry?

13 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

Ya'll talking about aliens, ghosts or hobgoblins?  What did they discover?  Is it wizardry?

I'd go with wizardry

31 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

I'd go with wizardry

It seems like alchemy to me.