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  1. 20 hours ago, geordief said:

    Do we receive  more optical data from the distorted galaxy than we would otherwise get....or is the image just distorted?

    Are we getting  photons that would normally not  reach us bent in our direction so that we can see them so that we get a higher definition image as a result?

    Yes to both.

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    When light passes through this gravitational field, it bends. This creates a magnifying effect called gravitational lensing, which allows us to see objects that wouldn't normally be visible, or visible in such strong detail.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/icarus-blue-giant-most-distant-star-ever-seen-hubble-9-billion-light-years#:~:text=When light passes through this gravitational field%2C it,dependent on exactly the right alignment of objects.

  2. 1 hour ago, Enthalpy said:

    My sunheat engine is the next big thing

    You put a lot of time and effort into these threads, Do you ever do anything with these ideas of yours, like apply for patents or seek funding?

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    The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, located in the southern hemisphere constellation of Fornax (the Furnace). GAL-CLUS-022058s is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our universe.

    https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2020/hubble-sees-a-molten-ring

  4. Been reading about kinetic energy weapons, and it got me thinking,

    say a 200 tonne passenger jet crashed into London at Mach 8, what would the resulting explosion/shock wave be like. Would it have the potential to flatten London, or would it be just a big ball of flames?

    Also, during the planes descent, would it speed up due to gravity or slow down due to a loss of thrust and friction?

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    Scientists are edging closer to making a super-secure, super-fast quantum internet possible: they've now been able to 'teleport' high-fidelity quantum information over a total distance of 44 kilometres (27 miles).

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/quantum-teleportation-was-just-achieved-with-90percent-accuracy-over-a-44km-distance/ar-BB1cnZbN?OCID=ansmsnnews11

  6. 15 hours ago, Salik Imran said:

    I say this because of many things. Muslims are a peaceful folk. The Quran teaches us to have peace, and so does the Torah and the Bible. Unfortunately, in all religions, you get a few violent people. Just because ISIS or Al-Qaida do violence "IN THE NAME OF GOD" does not mean that the rest of the Muslims are responsible for it, called terrorists

    Agreed, which is why we have programs like prevent.

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    The Prevent strategy has three objectives: 

    • Challenging the ideology that supports terrorism and those who promote it,
    • Protecting vulnerable people,
    • Supporting sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation.

    https://fullfact.org/law/what-prevent-strategy/

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    Now, they are making laws that affect Muslims, like PREVENT in Britain and actions in Scandinavian countries. The aim of this is to keep a new caliph from rising, and giving full control to the people.

    Good. I'm happy with this democracy thing we have thanks. If it ain't broke...

     

     

  7. Interesting theory. I can't comment on most of it unfortunately, apart from this.

    27 minutes ago, Olorin said:

    However, the Moon has no iron core, and no evidence of tectonic activity ever.

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    "There's this assumption that the Moon is long dead, but we keep finding that that's not the case," said planetary geologist Peter Schultz of Brown University. "From this paper it appears that the Moon may still be creaking and cracking - potentially in the present day - and we can see the evidence on these ridges."

    https://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-got-more-evidence-that-the-moon-is-tectonically-active

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    The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high temperature plasma for 20 seconds with an ion temperature over 100 million degrees (Celsius).

    https://phys.org/news/2020-12-korean-artificial-sun-world-sec-long.html

  9. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31686-9

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    In July 2016, a mummified carcass of an ancient wolf (Canis lupus) pup (specimen YG 648.1) was discovered in thawing permafrost in the Klondike goldfields, near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (Figure 1A). The wolf pup mummy was recovered along a small tributary of Last Chance Creek during hydraulic thawing that exposed the permafrost sediment in which it was preserved. This mummified wolf pup is important to the local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people, who named it Zhùr, meaning ‘wolf’ in the Hän language of their community. Here, we report detailed morphometric, isotopic, and genetic analyses of Zhùr that reveal details of her appearance, evolutionary relationships to other wolves and short life-history and ecology

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  10. 50 minutes ago, Olorin said:

    dthor68:

    The continents jigsaw into a globe of the right size, with a piece missing in the Pacific area. The reason for this requires a discussion that could be a

    THREAD CALLED THE ANOMALOUS MOON
     

    Never heard of this, any chance of starting this thread?

  11. If we replaced the engine with a thermo-nuclear engine, and used water as the fuel, could you produce enough thrust from the steam to get into orbit? 

    And considering the amount of water on earth, would it make a good engine for space exploration?

     

     

  12. On 11/14/2020 at 7:41 PM, joigus said:

    My feelings exactly. The average inter-species behaviour in this planet is trying to either outwit or outrun your predator or your prey.

    Other interesting possibilities are host-parasite, pet-master...

    Maybe that's why they only sent one signal.

    They weren't trying to say hello, just seeing if anything replied, so they could evaluate if we were a danger or not before revealing themselves. 

    They could've sent one out in every direction and just waited for any responses.

  13. If we add stuff on for the next generation of them, What else could we do with it? 

    would it be possible to attach solar panels to the top of them, then use the energy to power lasers or radio waves to power aircraft?

    what about a solar farm, I've read they'll be around 48000. would it be possible to support space manufacturing?

     

  14. On 12/16/2020 at 7:53 PM, Danijel Gorupec said:

    But I don't understand what is the advantage, if any, in comparison to a synchronized array of small movable-dish telescopes? The price?

    I suspect there's also an element of 'have you seen how big my dick is' going on.

  15. Some of the residents on sites like these have been interacting with the same people for over 10 years, sometimes across multiple sites.

    I was wondering, Do you ever keep in touch with anyone away from the site?

    Also, what's it like when someone you regularly interact with for a number of years stops showing up, do you ever feel like you've lost a friend. Sorry for being personal, tell me to f^*k off if you want, I'm just curious.

  16. He's not been around in awhile, very strange.

    Does anyone know if his/their absence is permanent?

    Something i've noticed on several different forums now, is that when a new expert arrives and seems to stick around, one of the resident experts disappears.

    I was wondering, as these forums are kind of smallish, do staff/mods feel morally obligated to stick around longer than they want too until a replacement shows up, so not to harm the site?

  17. 42 minutes ago, Bartholomew Jones said:

    What's ASDA if you don't mind?

    Supermarket chain. Basically the same as Wal-Mart but British.

    edit: cross posted with a much better answer.

  18. 1 hour ago, Bartholomew Jones said:

    I'm sorry.  I understand people are often fond of Wal-Mart.  But they've literally monopolized the retail market in violation of antitrust law.

    Not fond of them, just not familiar with them. We don't have Wal-Mart, They own ASDA over here.

    I know a lot of people don't like them, but I've never heard of anyone suggest lawsuits for antitrust violations.

  19. Wiki says two up, one down.

    Just read this on Quora.

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    You may have heard that a proton is made from three quarks. Indeed here are several pages that say so. This is a lie — a white lie, but a big one. In fact there are zillions of gluons, antiquarks, and quarks in a proton. The standard shorthand, “the proton is made from two up quarks and one down quark”, is really a statement that the proton has two more up quarks than up antiquarks, and one more down quark than down antiquarks. To make the glib shorthand correct you need to add the phrase “plus zillions of gluons and zillions of quark-antiquark pairs.” Without this phrase, one’s view of the proton is so simplistic that it is not possible to understand the LHC at all.

    Which is true?

    https://qr.ae/pNe457

     

     

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