Think of an atom and put 50 paired atoms next to this one atom. These 51 atoms will not be paired, but 50 atoms will attract 1 atom.
So from here we understand this. We must create a barrier between the object we want to resist gravity and the world. With this barrier, we must prevent the effect of gravity from reaching the object. The solution may seem to have the opposite effect, but that wouldn't be genius. The important thing is not to solve the effect with the effect. 🙂
So from here we understand this. We must create a barrier between the object we want to resist gravity and the world. With this barrier, we must prevent the effect of gravity from reaching the object. The solution may seem to have the opposite effect, but that wouldn't be genius. The important thing is not to solve the effect with the effect. 🙂
My money is on Cavorite!
Cavorite is a combination of the metal lunarium and a form of anti-gravitational energy called apergy.
Breaking Starlink related news:
Over 100 astronomers are urging the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which approves satellite deployments in the U.S., to halt satellite megaconstellation launches such as Starlink and conduct a thorough assessment of their possible environmental impacts before awarding further licenses.
https://www.space.com/space-explora...-to-halt-satellite-megaconstellation-launches
Quote: "Megaconstellation operators plan to regularly update their fleets with newer, more capable technology. To prevent the accumulation of space debris, they send the outdated spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere to burn up at the end of their mission. The potential harmful effects of this satellite incineration concern the researchers."
It is estimated that when megaconstellation deployment reaches its peak, some 29 metric tons of metallic waste will be vaporising in Earth's atmosphere every day, the equivalent of "a car falling from space" every hour. The astronomers say that the long-term effects of this aren't clear, but the aluminium oxide formed when satellites are burnt could damage the ozone layer and alter the atmosphere's ability to absorb heat.
Of course, the astronomer's concerns are in addition to the immediately obvious problem of the obstruction of astronomical observations.
Over 100 astronomers are urging the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which approves satellite deployments in the U.S., to halt satellite megaconstellation launches such as Starlink and conduct a thorough assessment of their possible environmental impacts before awarding further licenses.
https://www.space.com/space-explora...-to-halt-satellite-megaconstellation-launches
Quote: "Megaconstellation operators plan to regularly update their fleets with newer, more capable technology. To prevent the accumulation of space debris, they send the outdated spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere to burn up at the end of their mission. The potential harmful effects of this satellite incineration concern the researchers."
It is estimated that when megaconstellation deployment reaches its peak, some 29 metric tons of metallic waste will be vaporising in Earth's atmosphere every day, the equivalent of "a car falling from space" every hour. The astronomers say that the long-term effects of this aren't clear, but the aluminium oxide formed when satellites are burnt could damage the ozone layer and alter the atmosphere's ability to absorb heat.
Of course, the astronomer's concerns are in addition to the immediately obvious problem of the obstruction of astronomical observations.
Wooden satellites!
A possible solution to the aluminium oxide pollution problem mentioned above:
LignoSat
The parts of the satellite that would normally be constructed from aluminum are instead crafted from magnolia wood.
https://www.space.com/space-explora...satellite-arrives-at-iss-for-key-orbital-test
A possible solution to the aluminium oxide pollution problem mentioned above:
LignoSat
The parts of the satellite that would normally be constructed from aluminum are instead crafted from magnolia wood.
https://www.space.com/space-explora...satellite-arrives-at-iss-for-key-orbital-test
While we ponder if Elon Musk is about to destroy the Ozone layer with his Starlink satellites, and I have ascertained that the Earth gets about 100 tons a day of meteorite dust compared to his projected 25 tons a day of satellite debris, I have also been pondering if the Aliens are trying to contact us!
https://www.seti.org/decoding-message-sign-space-year-long-journey
Seems that a Dad and Daughter combo of Citizen Scientists have decoded this message from Space, doubtless applying Shannon's Information Theory!
A child of ten recognises these Amino Acids, forming the blocks of Life.
If I had been organising this SETI competition, I would have used this famous baffling Alien message from the Zero Wing game:
Or perhaps "Klaatu Barada Nikto":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still
For sure, the Aliens will tell us that we are a menace to ourselves and all sentient life-forms, the way we carry on.
And must be eliminated for the safety of all civilised Galactic folks. 🤣
https://www.seti.org/decoding-message-sign-space-year-long-journey
Seems that a Dad and Daughter combo of Citizen Scientists have decoded this message from Space, doubtless applying Shannon's Information Theory!
A child of ten recognises these Amino Acids, forming the blocks of Life.
If I had been organising this SETI competition, I would have used this famous baffling Alien message from the Zero Wing game:
Or perhaps "Klaatu Barada Nikto":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still
For sure, the Aliens will tell us that we are a menace to ourselves and all sentient life-forms, the way we carry on.
And must be eliminated for the safety of all civilised Galactic folks. 🤣
Eek!
We still haven't explained the Wow! SETI signal received in 1977.
I've just finished watching '3 Body Problem' which is now playing on Netflix.
The aliens are coming, but won't arrive for 400 years.
The unfriendly message from the San-Ti is:
There is a SciFi nouvel based on humans being pests on a galactic civilisation that escapes from planet to planet.
The galactics canot get rid of these bugs that follow them through the galaxy.
The galactics canot get rid of these bugs that follow them through the galaxy.
A friend was telling me he thought "The Three Body Problem" was entertaining enough on Netflix yesterday. Though he thought the multi-national "Team" pursuing the matter was a bit contrived and overly optimistic about human co-operation.
I kind of agree. Bill Gates was on Radio 4 this week explaining how we must get to Net Zero on emissions by 2050. Or it's really game over. EEK! 😱
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024vjb
Never gonna happen, IMO. Zero chance. We love everything that causes Climate Change, and "It's all about the Economy, stoopid!"
Isn't our Ronald McDonald planning to "Drill, Drill, Drill" for oil? And are we gonna give up cheeseburgers and cars? Anyway, I doubt I'll be here in 2050, so really don't care. The Planet should see me out. 🤣
Also, a minor success for the Portsmouth Citizen Astrophotographer...
I have snapped Europa with my camera and the stock 18-55mm lens.
Callisto, on the left is known to be quite a dark moon. Io is probably too close in for my current equipment to resolve against the glare, though a toy telescope is easy enough for this sort of thing.
Good Night and Good Luck! 😎
I kind of agree. Bill Gates was on Radio 4 this week explaining how we must get to Net Zero on emissions by 2050. Or it's really game over. EEK! 😱
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024vjb
Never gonna happen, IMO. Zero chance. We love everything that causes Climate Change, and "It's all about the Economy, stoopid!"
Isn't our Ronald McDonald planning to "Drill, Drill, Drill" for oil? And are we gonna give up cheeseburgers and cars? Anyway, I doubt I'll be here in 2050, so really don't care. The Planet should see me out. 🤣
Also, a minor success for the Portsmouth Citizen Astrophotographer...
I have snapped Europa with my camera and the stock 18-55mm lens.
Callisto, on the left is known to be quite a dark moon. Io is probably too close in for my current equipment to resolve against the glare, though a toy telescope is easy enough for this sort of thing.
Good Night and Good Luck! 😎
What if, beneath a projected illusion that makes the moon appear a dark, lifeless orb to outside observers, Callisto turns out to have a breathable atmosphere, an alien biology, and human inhabitants?
That's the scenario in Lin Carter's Jandar of Callisto, the first in a series of novels written in homage to the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
On being teleported from Earth to Thanator, as Callisto is known to its inhabitants, Jandar has to battle the Yathoon, a race of intelligent insectoids:
Will Jandar succeed in winning the heart of the beautiful princess Darloona of Shondakar? Tune in next week!
I suspect the pulchritudinous Space Princess Darloona (She sounds like a hillbilly...) will use that lunk Jaydar to regain her throne then quickly club him over the head! If she has any sense...🤣
I read more worthy tomes like this account of mRNA (Messenger RNA) research culminating in the 2023 Nobel prize:
If you are not up to speed on the horrors that vaccinations have eliminated, refer to this example and check out Polio and TB and Measles while you are at it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
I was reviewing my Space pictures last night. And not too bad if I say so myself.
The Comet is now faded below Magnitude 10 so we can give up now. But I got some good shots:
Apparently, three observations is enough to define the orbital parameters. Or three points define an ellipse.
I still haven't snapped the Triangulum Galaxy, M33:
How it looks on good equipment, bottom left:
Best I have got at f1.8, 4 seconds and ISO 1600:
But a worthy effort I think. Weather permitting, I hope to snap Algol in Perseus drifting from Mag 2.1 to 3.4 every 3 days. Which is about 3X dimmer.
https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/the-minima-of-algol/
Looks like December should align nicely.
I read more worthy tomes like this account of mRNA (Messenger RNA) research culminating in the 2023 Nobel prize:
If you are not up to speed on the horrors that vaccinations have eliminated, refer to this example and check out Polio and TB and Measles while you are at it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
I was reviewing my Space pictures last night. And not too bad if I say so myself.
The Comet is now faded below Magnitude 10 so we can give up now. But I got some good shots:
Apparently, three observations is enough to define the orbital parameters. Or three points define an ellipse.
I still haven't snapped the Triangulum Galaxy, M33:
How it looks on good equipment, bottom left:
Best I have got at f1.8, 4 seconds and ISO 1600:
But a worthy effort I think. Weather permitting, I hope to snap Algol in Perseus drifting from Mag 2.1 to 3.4 every 3 days. Which is about 3X dimmer.
https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/the-minima-of-algol/
Looks like December should align nicely.
My life has been considerably extended by vaccinations. I was diagnosed with measles 5 times. The last time the Army did not believe that was possible and did a test. It was measles again. My native looking grandfather died of a cold age 42 in 1938. Not even aspirin available in the coal camps of West Virginia. Before sulfa drugs, which did me good in the 1950's. I have been diagnosed with walking pneumonia 6 times and had similar symptoms about 30 times. 23andme tells me I have fewer Neanderthal genes than 83% of their other customers. Nova said Neanderthal genes aid infection resistance. Certain tall blonde political leaders do not need vaccines: my wife never gets infections. My life has been considerably improved since pneumonia and flu vaccines have become a regular practice. I expect to die of infection in the "vaccines are dangerous" era of the United States. Nobody in the family ever had cancer and heart health can be managed with aerobic exercise weight control and cholesterol management.
mMRA covid shot may have been wonderful, but was restricted to hospital & nursing home patients over 80 when I caught covid. After 141 days fever, I finally took the vaccine to gain entry to Kentucky Center for the Arts. No fever, no sore arm. Too late. I always catch everything first. I caught covid19 bicycling on the street, or through a 3M N95 mask from a store clerk that told me later that he was never ill during covid. I may have had H5N1 flu already, with no birds in my experience. In August I had a fever 6 days that caused pain in my ears and a headache, but no respiratory symptoms.
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We are not born equal about self natural immunity. Not equal about all health issues.
Vaccination for all ?
I only follow medical prescriptions of my Doc who follows my health.
I do not trust medical policies dictated by commercial and political interests.
Vaccination for all ?
I only follow medical prescriptions of my Doc who follows my health.
I do not trust medical policies dictated by commercial and political interests.
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It was the outbreak of walking pneumonia and Asian flu which hit the US in 57–58 that inspired the song Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.
Originally recorded in 1957 by Huey 'Piano' Smith, the song became a big international hit for Johnny Rivers in 1972.
Stay healthy indianajo and other northern hemisphere dwellers as winter approaches. I suggest you avoid crowded places!
I've had my Flu, Covid-19 and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccines in preparation. My thanks go to our NHS (national health system).
Not often I read a book in 3 days, but Katarin Kariko's account of her mRNA research was quite gripping.
The reason the vaccines rolled out so quickly late 2020, and think only 3 months after the Covid-19 virus sequence was published Spring 2020, but before longer clinical trials, was several companies were already working on Influenza vaccines of traditional attenuated and mRNA types, because Katalin and Drew had published their results. It was just a question of making the body recognise and be immune to a particular protein in the Covid-19 virus. The Spike, as it goes. The name Novel Coronavirus meant that we had NO BASIC RESISTANCE at all to the thing, so it was going to spread rapidly.
She was advising BioNTech who collaborated with Pfizer in Germany. Moderna (Modified RNA, geddit?) did similar in the US. Astra-Zeneca's more traditional vaccine was cheaper and easier to store, but developed scare stories for clotting, perhaps not justified in hindsight. Interestingly all of them still only have provisional approval.
Permanent DNA is C,G,A,T or Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine and Thymine.
Short lived (messenger) mRNA is C,G,A,U or Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine and Uridine.
Katalin's unique contribution was to solve the seeming rejection via inflammation of her manufactured mRNA by cells. Potentially a show stopper. It was done by replacing Uridine with another naturally occurring amino acid, N-methylpseudouridine all suspended in an oily lipid for injection. She absolutely KNEW it would work.
Schoolboy chemistry, surely? The mRNA then passes the protein message to the cells about a virus alert and self-destructs.
Do the vaccines alter your DNA? Nope, mRNA doesn't go near your DNA! 😎
Does it alter menstrual cycles. A little, any fever after inoculations do. This was known a 100 years ago.
Does it contain Bill Gates' control microchips? REALLY! 🙄
And there you have it. We are now all informed Biochemists. Somebody better be. 🙂
The reason the vaccines rolled out so quickly late 2020, and think only 3 months after the Covid-19 virus sequence was published Spring 2020, but before longer clinical trials, was several companies were already working on Influenza vaccines of traditional attenuated and mRNA types, because Katalin and Drew had published their results. It was just a question of making the body recognise and be immune to a particular protein in the Covid-19 virus. The Spike, as it goes. The name Novel Coronavirus meant that we had NO BASIC RESISTANCE at all to the thing, so it was going to spread rapidly.
She was advising BioNTech who collaborated with Pfizer in Germany. Moderna (Modified RNA, geddit?) did similar in the US. Astra-Zeneca's more traditional vaccine was cheaper and easier to store, but developed scare stories for clotting, perhaps not justified in hindsight. Interestingly all of them still only have provisional approval.
Permanent DNA is C,G,A,T or Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine and Thymine.
Short lived (messenger) mRNA is C,G,A,U or Cytosine, Guanine, Adenine and Uridine.
Katalin's unique contribution was to solve the seeming rejection via inflammation of her manufactured mRNA by cells. Potentially a show stopper. It was done by replacing Uridine with another naturally occurring amino acid, N-methylpseudouridine all suspended in an oily lipid for injection. She absolutely KNEW it would work.
Schoolboy chemistry, surely? The mRNA then passes the protein message to the cells about a virus alert and self-destructs.
Do the vaccines alter your DNA? Nope, mRNA doesn't go near your DNA! 😎
Does it alter menstrual cycles. A little, any fever after inoculations do. This was known a 100 years ago.
Does it contain Bill Gates' control microchips? REALLY! 🙄
And there you have it. We are now all informed Biochemists. Somebody better be. 🙂
While surfing the net, I came across the news that Nobel prize winning physicist Leon Cooper passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at age 94.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-10-28/leon-cooper
Cooper was instrumental in coming up with the solution to a mystery that had eluded many of the greatest minds in physics, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr.
Although the phenomenon of superconductivity had been discovered in 1911, it wasn't till 1956 that Cooper came up with an explanation that involved the pairing up of electrons of opposite spin in a metal lattice at low temperatures. You may have heard of the term 'Cooper pair'.
Cooper pairs do not interact with the positive ions in the metal lattice which therefore offers no resistance to current flow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_pair
https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-10-28/leon-cooper
Cooper was instrumental in coming up with the solution to a mystery that had eluded many of the greatest minds in physics, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr.
Although the phenomenon of superconductivity had been discovered in 1911, it wasn't till 1956 that Cooper came up with an explanation that involved the pairing up of electrons of opposite spin in a metal lattice at low temperatures. You may have heard of the term 'Cooper pair'.
Cooper pairs do not interact with the positive ions in the metal lattice which therefore offers no resistance to current flow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_pair
I like solving mysteries. Who killed the Chauffeur in "The Big Sleep" movie? Why did the famous Arecibo Radio Telescope, which found the first Neutron Star, fall down 4 years ago?
A report has been published saying it was probably hurricane damage:
https://www.space.com/the-universe/...atory-collapsed-we-finally-know-what-happened
More fancifully, this reputable Astronomy site blames induced currents eroding the galvanising in the cables from its Radar emitter:
https://skyandtelescope.org/astrono...ay-have-contributed-to-the-telescopes-demise/
So it's not solved at all! Maybe it's the usual suspect, Bill Gates, to blame? 🤣
A report has been published saying it was probably hurricane damage:
https://www.space.com/the-universe/...atory-collapsed-we-finally-know-what-happened
More fancifully, this reputable Astronomy site blames induced currents eroding the galvanising in the cables from its Radar emitter:
https://skyandtelescope.org/astrono...ay-have-contributed-to-the-telescopes-demise/
So it's not solved at all! Maybe it's the usual suspect, Bill Gates, to blame? 🤣