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This seems preposterous to me.

You don't seem to grasp how little of brain activity emerges into consciousness. The very fact that participants who use Ouija boards are led to anticipate the possibility of meaningful actions can influence their participation. btw, it is not often emphasized, but sometimes Ouija boards give completely incoherent responses, even though the board helpfully supplies landing areas that circumvent the need for laboriously spelling out responses. This is explained by devotees as 'the spirits not feeling cooperative', which explains nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBDxqCHxT_8

Wow why the heck does anything need more than one horsepower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RDBp_ofQL8

that video looked familiar and i looked it up - helper, utah - yep. except he'd be fat with close-cropped hair, walmart clothes, miners lung and an opioid addiction.

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/05/ship-hovering-above-sea-cornwall-optical-illusion

back in the good old days, an entire religion would have been founded based on that

“Superior mirages occur because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion, where cold air lies close to the sea with warmer air above it,” said David Braine, a BBC meteorologist. “Since cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light towards the eyes of someone standing on the ground or on the coast, changing how a distant object appears.”

He added: “Superior mirages can produce a few different types of images – here a distant ship appears to float high above its actual position, but sometimes an object below the horizon can become visible.”

siiiiiiiick

Same thing causes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights but that flying boat is a particularly insane example

subatomic antineutrino with 1,000 x the energy the LHC can produce detected (indirectly, because it collided with an electron and produced the predicted Glashow resonance) at the ice cube lab on Antarctica - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03256-1

I only understand part of that but it's still fascinating

too bad it's paywalled. my first question was when did that happen? things down there have been very weird for the past year!

ah press release says december 2016

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereDidTheSiloGo/search?q=subreddit%3AWhereDidTheSiloGo&restrict_sr=on&sort=top&t=all

caek is the "general relativity explains away dark matter" thing bs?

i don't know what the thing is but no, GR does not remove the need for dark matter.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210304145458.htm

saw someone comment "but galactic rotation curves aren't the only evidence for dark matter" which seemed to make sense

yup. they're not even the main evidence at this point, although they were the first.

oooh

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron-collider-scientists-particle-physics

Nice

Worm Tornado? Has anyone ever seen anything like this? These were out this morning near Maxwell park in #Hoboken. Clearly worms come out after it rains but this is something I’ve never seen! Pc: my 2nd ward neighbor. #wormtornado 😬🤦🏻‍♀️ 🪱 🌪 pic.twitter.com/tWBOMzV5fK

— Tiffanie Fisher, Councilwoman (@Tiffanie_Fisher) March 25, 2021

eldritch

Nossir

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/science/particle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html

Would it be correct to say that dark energy makes up 68% of the mass of the universe?

i'm out of my depth but ...

yes, assuming 1) energy and mass are equivalent 2) it's appropriate to think of dark energy as energy rather than something more exotic like a negative pressure.

1) is uncontroversially true 2) may be true, but is not uncontroversial given no one knows what DE is, IIUC.

The Dead have a song about this

It was a university challenge question - what makes up 68% of the mass of the universe and (theoretically?) causes the acceleration of its expansion. The second part gives it away but by then you're thrown by the reference to mass. They answered dark matter. Fwiw Wikipedia says its 68% of the energy.

there is certainly no better answer to this question than "dark energy"

I suspect there may be a better question to the answer though

yes

NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering. https://t.co/LLy8fB2dmZ pic.twitter.com/4fWkHIgmlA

— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) December 15, 2021

i bought a NAS

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:57 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

i sold it

incredible video is that, just casually staring at the milky way whilst getting directly blasted by a solar flare.

is that the view from bezos' cowboy hat?

I saw it earlier through a Seán Doran RT, his twitter account is very good for hq enhanced Mars and Jupiter photos/vids.

staring at the milky way whilst getting directly blasted by a solar flare yes!

i bought a NAS

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:57 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

i sold it

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:13 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i hope my girlfriend don't mind it

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ is going up in a few years. that's a 6m mirror. going to be a pretty big deal iirc.

― caek, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 8:14 AM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Oh noes, we forgot to take off the lens cap!"

lol "a few years". i'm not sure how late it actually ended up. five years?

Originally planned to launch 2007, then in 2005 they pushed out to 2013.

christ

yup, but a lag of 15 years wouldn't even register on a geologic time scale

Fuck, the mirror is foggy. I repeat, the mirror is foggy. Mission failure.

we're 3-4 months away from knowing if it all works iirc

camera pans up to reveal a giant eye staring into the telescope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfUSNzc0Xk

was looking for a more detailed story about the one of the early engineering images from JWST and ended up on phys.org. good site!

two delightful stories

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-gaia-snaps-photo-webb-l2.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-asteroid-impact.html

Gaia snaps photo of Webb at L2

best spacecraft friends

maybe not useful for caek, but the sixty symbols youtube channel did just post a little bit of discussion about the calibration image.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbj8pMfK9Ek

I wrote a paper with that guy!