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Something I've seen in nuclear materials research is that all of them are basically, I have a material, I am going to shoot energetic particles at it, I am going to record the numbers, take some before and after pictures and talk about what I saw. It does make sense that you would research like this considering most materials in nuclear environments do suffer bombardment from energetic nuclei and subatomic particles. The consistency in the formula of this research process, however, is something I did not expect. Is this how it works for every field when you get into something very specific and become an expert on it like in a PhD? For example, would experimental study of …

Hi. Am not good enough and less when as blurry as this... Can someone translate the pharagraps following "14" ? Is that for a motor? 🤔 It is an image and do not know how to get a translation from images Thank you.

Here are a couple of interesting CGI Youtubes I found. They are 10 minutes each. Maybe any other enthusiasts of the history of WW2 would be interested. They are produced by Japanese, so I think they tried to be accurate about their famous battleship. Yamato is to the Japanese what the Alamo is the Americans, according to the producers of these youtubes. When you watch the videos, notice that for quite a few minutes the 200+ US warplanes swarmed the Yamato without attacking. Why is that? Then pay attention to the part where 3 Helldivers drop 2 bombs each (6 bombs) and they all land within a couple of seconds in the same general area. At the end the Yamato capsizes…

Google did changes to the search process and capability a while ago and cannot access some foreign things now. Trying to locate a russian brand/factory of electric bicycles from several years ago, to find if they are still in business or production. From USA, cannot see internal russian sites any more ¿? That manufacturer had also a video of the bicycle; and a full site for the product. Can someone capable of doing such search inside Russia post a link where I could see maaaany results to choose the correct one ?

Trevor Noah produced this wonderful campaign ad for Trump.

Hello everybody, I used to be a lucid dreamer. I would realize that I am dreaming while in a dream. I saw many things in my dreams that seemed to have long history. that made me wonder if it is possible for things in actual life to not really have any long history yet seem like it does.

Hi. Does wiring in concrete, block, stone walls runs mandatory inside metallic conduit?; with several insulated single conductors or multiple bundled conductors ? Is 'Romex type' multiple conductor wire used there ? Is the 230V two 'live' wires from a centre-tapped utility transformer or is one of the conductors neutral ? Are neutral and earth ground joined somewhere ?

I wonder what English speakers around the world think of this ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53941008 The article compares existing spelling with proposed new versions, using passages from Shakespeare's Hamlet. So troubles becomes trubles. The are examples of some writing characters that are even worse than my hand script as well.

This catch 22 is screwing me over. I had some traumatic life circumstances get in the way during my college experience, thus preventing me from getting undergrad research in. I've had one interview in two months and it's starting to get very discouraging. I really have a strong passion for the sciences and doing anything else like customer service or retail would drive me insane.

I just caught part of a TV program called Spy in the Wild. BBC1 1735 - 1835 today. I will have to complete it on iplayer /catch up. It shows the most amazingly realistic robotic artificial animals designd to fool real animal herds in the wild in order to video the. These robots look like the real thing, orangutangs, crocs, egrets, penguins, sea otters etc and have sound vision and realistic action. These are unprecedented scientific tools but watching them made me wonder the title question How soon before we can make a Terminator ? They are so nearly there. Watch the programme if you get a chance.

Hello Everybody, I just wanted to express my opinion on magic tricks. I have seen many magic tricks on YouTube and other media platforms. And, most of them are extremely hard to explain. My opinion on it is that some of them are just illusions, and some of them are real. What do I mean by "real?" By that, I mean that if a magicians disappearing trick is real, it means that the magician has actually disappeared.

And three things are worth more or less mentioning in a science forum: In Pisa, I did not find any souvenir that somehow refers to Galileo throwing weights from the Leaning Tower. 😢 If in Newton's time such fine fabrics as nowadays used in flags would have existed, the question if light is particles or waves would have decided immediate against him: (My own picture of a patch of light seen through the Italian flag) I've been reading Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time, by Peter Galison. It is a great book, showing how Poincaré and Einstein were in very close contact with the practical problems of timekeeping. Po…

I had to delete the Apple notes app from my phone because it suddenly decided that I should be notified about one of the notes. I did everything I could think of to make sure I didn’t receive any notifications from that app. It didn’t work. Since the notification was appearing on my lock screen I went so far as to block all notifications from my lock screen. It didn’t work. A few days later there it was again. In frustration I tapped on it so I could examine the note to see if there was something specific to the note that I had done that was causing it to appear. Expecting, to be greeted with a request for my passcode or my finger print since I was after …

Hello, I've been plagued by a question for several days. Is there such a thing as a science chat? I'm looking for a chat where people write about their thoughts on the world, the science books they've read recently. I'm not looking for a forum, because I would like to talk to someone face to face, for example.

Perhaps because we are living through a post-apocalyptic movie, the forum seems to be attracting a larger that usual number of people with their own wacky ideas about how the world works. So I put this together, partly based on my own observations but also a few pinched from the Crackpot Index (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html).

Yo, this is a appeal to not get banned by your favorite Mad Scientist, Vmedvil, I want out of this ban!

"Children are strong and powerful" - Trump "Putin was strong and powerful" - Trump The building is high and tall. The sky is up and water is wet.

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hi, I feel myself at some stages still new. but Although all articles that I scanned contain "results" section with numeric analyses (e.g. manova's or other spss analyses), I do not know whether such types of analyses are mandatory or numeric or graphic representations. I mean only for theoretical articles. hımm yes,at a time I remember one article at a known journal presumably with no discussion and results (in fact the tongue was wholly speculative) but still unsure whether such telling methods can be acceptable by good journals.(here by "good" I mean wide IF and indexed databases, as much as possible) could someone show me articles with no numeric/anal…

I've put three people on my ignore list in the last 48 hours. Am I a bad person? Could I have done otherwise? --> Possibility for a merging with Free Will discussion Am I missing the fun of discussing non-sense? Am I giving others more than their fair share of gibberish to deal with? Does this thread belong in Ethics?

I already have Google and am hoping that their quantum division bets broken up into baby Googs like happened to ATT and the baby bells. So anyone have ideas about startup quantum players?

Just in case someone doesn't know what a tromba marina is (ok, nearly everybody should ignore that, as the instrument was abandoned before the baroque era): the bowed string instrument has a special bridge called guidon, just in equilibrium so one foot hits the soundboard at each vibration cycle to produce a loud strident sound resembling a trumpet. Tromba_marina and Schnarrsteg on Wiki Being a historic curiosity, it's mostly played by people who invested little time to learn it without a professor, but here's one good audio record. Yes, that's a string instrument. wlBolbo24Rc on Youtube. Enjoy this rare sound!

Dear friends of music, arts, and all inquiring minds! Here's a nice web address to hear a celesta https://www.celesta-schiedmayer.de/en/celesta/celesta-audio-samples/ at the website of one manufacturer - there aren't so many. Also pictures and explanations there. In short, the celesta has a keyboard and hammers like a piano to strike high-pitched metal bars placed over tuned air resonators. Many symphony orchestras have one, but it's not very common. One other manufacturer http://www.glockenspiel-lippert.de/celesta.html and Wiki claims Yamaha produces some too. A third-dozen more companies have existed, including the inventor's one, Mustel. Some instruments subsist,…

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Quite a bit is pretty fanciful from a scientific perspective, but is an extremely well done production. The setting is a fair sized city set inside of a large martian dome. Heavily modified assets and ridiculous level of detail really make the city come to life. The actual build aspects may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I've found it easy enough to skip past when things become too dry.