The Lounge

I was listening to a podcast and the hosts, who are magazine editors, mentioned a headline they had a disagreement over. The article was about poets laureates being removed from their post and the headline was "unacknowledged legislators impeached." When one of the hosts mentioned the headline, someone went ah, in a "that was clever" way, but I'm apparently not, because I don't get it. Where's the cleverness?

Okay, I'll treat the physics community like a human being. The only reason why I get on your nerve is because I don't like what you're researching. We are (the Earth) are trying to get back on track for the race to interstellar space exploration. We literally need any hint we can find to get quantum gravity. If that means we have to lovingly remind the physics community that they need to be aligned with us on this goal, then by gosh, we will poke every nerve they have <that's a joke>. You have no idea how often jokes are used to ease tensions between the many races and planets. If you can't take a joke, you are encouraged to learn. There are more jokes in the…

Hi. My brother is paranoid because just found that the central air conditioning equipment at his home installed 30 years ago has always had a 3 ton exterior unit and a 2 ton interior. What should the behavior of such mismatch ? Am not an expert in the field to answer without 'maybes' and 'sometimes' Anyone around knows ? Question 2: What behavior should be expected if some technician fed refrigerant R410 in equipment that calls for R22 ? Anyone knows ?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nichelle-nichols-dead-star-trek-lieutenant-uhura-1235189880/ An interesting obit. I didn't know about her recruiting stint with NASA. Or that MLK was a Trekkie. And talked her into staying on the series when she was planning to leave Knew that she and Shatner broke the interracial kiss barrier on American tv, which required malign telekinetic beings to achieve but hey it was a start. May her hailing frequencies always be open.

Hello. I buy some ground meat. Add some salt and pepper, sometimes chopped onions, form the patties. Everything falls apart on the frying pan. More when flipping. If it was a barbecue grill, it would all fall in pieces into the gaps. What is the trick to keep it in one piece ? 😟

Have you ever had a situation where you find yourself trying to explain that some words in the English language are spelt the same but mean totally different things depending on the context. For example the word - wind This can mean a feature of the weather, e.g. air movement. Or to rotate something, e.g. a reel of hose. My question is, would it not make more sense to either change the spelling slightly, or create a new word? What are your experiences and opinions on the subject and also please offer other examples!

😃If I can't get charity from this site, can I get support from publisher? Is nyone here working on publishing company? I would like to publish my idea. If anyone could help me I will start a new topic right away 😃 Hi everyone...

It seemed like during the 2000s American society was either encouraged to be overly obsessed with exercise, muscle cars, and the NFL or owning a rich mansion and being like a Kardashian. Why can't these men be both strong and smart? Like the astronauts? What was to blame for this? Hollywood? Has there been a pushback against this? It seems like there is no more stigma against fantasy themed TV shows with the massive success of "Game of Thrones". Would society be a better place if "meatheads" aspired to be more like astronauts?

Yes, a dumb question, but I am just listening to a baby crying across the village and I cannot remember if I ever heard any baby animal crying that loud... Strange. Are baby gorillas equally loud when crying? As far as I can remember, baby chicken can get very loud - possibly only quieter than human babies due to smaller body size. Are ostrich babies particularly loud?

This is almost mesmerising, the superconductor runs around the mobius strip almost if by magic!

Please bare in mind, whatever follows is not based on facts and it is all just some idea I thought of while reading some experiment. I am no scientist or have any degree in general science. Only computer science. Anyway here goes. So today I was busy reading this article that explained how you could simulate time travel by using a string and 3 people to simulate the pull effect of matter and how it will influence observers attached to that string. (you can google for the article "Step by Step Instructions for How to Build a Time Machine in Your Office in 30 Seconds"). Now, this made me think... If you could create a bubble of entangled particles around you…

Hi, under assumption; we ensured an association to publish our some articles by our request. then that association published those articles. assume please those publications include minor quotations. (E.g. descriptions or descriptive explanations ,I am also not sure whether really those publications include any quotations). However as the mentioned articles are created by memory (written by learning by heart) there is no research at the background in any of mentioned published articles. in this case will these published materials cause any copyright problems? and how to be sure on the issue with deep breath or how to resolve the case? Than…

I was looking through the car windscreen today as the rain came down (parked with the wipers off) Through the windscreen I was looking at a roughly painted white wall (a rendered finish which appeared as a collection of small pebbles-I think it may be called "pebbledash,actually) Anyway the visual effect was that ,as the rainwater ran down the 45° angled windscreen the "pebbles" seemed to move up the wall in an odd kind of opposing direction. Anyone noticed this ,or similar before?

For the first time in a long time I finally felt the breath of fresh air of truely wanting to learn. I felt it during my internship learning about deep learning and AI this summer. It feels so good that I never wanna go back to not wanting to learn. What advice can yall given to help me stop going back?

How did you all formulate your usernames? My username is LazyLemonLucas. One, I'm not lazy I just had to put it in there to make it an alitteration. Two, I'm not a lemon, again, I just had to put it in there to make an altteration. Three, my real name isn't Lucas either. It was actually one of my old buddies who I met in school and I just thought that it would be cool to have my username as his namesake. Lazy. Lemon. Lucas. Triple L.

Hi. Find this video very pretty. If there was an 'educational videos' section, it would fit well. Move to 'Experiments' or leave it here; but enjoy it ! ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXupc7oE-g

I just discovered this happened over 2 months ago. Did anyone hear this in the news? Armand Duplantis set another pole vault world record 20'4" in Belgrade on March 20, 2022. He cleared the bar by a few inches, brushing the bar on the way down. Only 2 other people ever vaulted higher than 20 feet, Bubka and Lavillenie.

I found the following in google: 1. Artery - the study of art 2. Bacteria - the back door of a cafeteria 3. Biology - the scientific study of the number 2 4. Nitrates - prices of services in the evening 5. Tumor - additional two of something

Evidently a new hearing about UAP's is happening, this is a short synopsis of the hearing by CNET. I thought some of us might be interested in discussing this latest chapter in the on going investigation. Congressional UFO Hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099410910/ufo-hearing-congress-military-intelligence https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story? Complete hearing.

Only the quarks named as u, d, s, c, t, b are allowed for now. The mandatory language is English Eventually, we will allow the use of bound states of quarks, like p (proton), n (neutron) and any other particles that can be named with a Latin letter, like the electron (e). Here's mine, STUD The next one is pretty obvious. You're allowed to use Shakespearian English, Yorkshire English, Alabama English. Only, please document.

Some local news form near me. Indian relics returned https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-61510755 Exeter museum in 'historic' handover of regalia to tribal leader

When the new EHT image appears on screen for the first time, astrophysicists be like...

Where I live, right now the sky is clear and the Moon is a beautiful dark orange ball! About the max of the total eclipse.

It was beautiful. All other horses suddenly look so slow...

To all women @SFN, and to all women in science: Happy Women's Day!! We value you, trust you, we love your work, and we wish you to keep going strong. Most importantly: We are inspired by you. You're better off without a Y chromosome, believe me. What's your favourite woman in science? Mine is Emmy Noether.