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so you mean your climate changed?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Sunday afternoon between the showers of rain we finally had a few dry hours to visit the woods, and saw a lot of these beauties: Shared album - Google Photos[^]
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"A quantum odyssey from the tip of a pen to the dark side of human knowledge:" [^] Quote: Machado’s film draws on 40 years of quantum research – not to mention significant advances in 3D rendering technology – to drill down to the unfathomably small scale of 10-33 metres, brushing up against the limits of human knowledge and imagination. The mindbending animation uses a framework of quantum gravity in which a gravitational field exists at these smallest conceivable scales. I feel even more insignificant.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: I feel even more insignificant.
I don't know. I feel rather unique!
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I won't know how I feel until I observe it.
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Awesome, music very fitting also!
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sadly only a small portion of an awesome track off an awesome album
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Yep and then just as you're really getting into it...fade out. Noooooooooo
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guess what's on the upcoming playlist. ...now gonna bug me silly till I play it.
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Machado? "I'm not in the redemption business".
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Good to see it back!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Good to see it back!
It's been a while since I've looked at APOD. Funny how things become a daily routine and then suddenly the routine stops.
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I have missed APOD and have not updated my Windows background for a while...
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According to a Guinness Record book which I saw more than four decades ago, this Andromeda galaxy was the farthest object visible to naked eye. Not sure whether that record has changed.
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Andromeda is coming closer to us every second. In a billion years or so it may not hold that record anymore, but the night sky might be spectacular.
Edit: Make that 4 billion years[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 15-Oct-19 9:46am.
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There was only B&W before Photoshop?
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in the early days there was only hydrogen, colorless
a while later some of that blobbed together to make stars (and helium, sadly also colorless)
giving us white where there was a star, and black where there wasn't.
quite a long while later some stars got too heavy and blobbed hydrogen in different ways, for the first time demonstrating other colors.
so yes relatively speaking, color is quite recent.
(actual evidence seen on TV it was was around the late 1950's.)
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I wonder how they played pool before colour was invented...
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Not quite correct.
Stars are (to a first approximation) Black Bodies in the thermodynamics sense. This means that their peak radiation output depends on their surface temperature, which in turn depends on their mass. Small stars (less than 0.1 Solar masses) are red dwarfs, up to massive (10 or more Solar masses) blue-white stars.
The dark lines in the spectrum do indicate atomic composition, and these can be used to classify stars as "population I", "population II", etc., with older stars containing fewer complex elements.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Is hard-coding when you are really struggling with some difficult code?
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I thought that was when you were developing a Pr0n site?
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