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The previous reply is excellent, so I will just add that the role of physics as an empirical science is to describe how things work, not...

Yes, I've seen some videos of the derailment. Pretty stunning. The locomotives stayed on the trestle. I hadn't seen that video, but I...

TIL that some railroad companies use "road slugs" -- locomotives without diesel engines. The road slug relies on the generator of its...

I say the tenor saxophone is the most versatile and expressive instrument. Here's Miku Yonezawa going full mid-period Coltrane. Hardly...

A story appeared on my news feed. From Popular Mechanics - Scientists Found 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA...

What to know about the Nipah virus https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/health/nipah-virus-explainer I heard about the new infections this...

In the movie it was mentioned that each day started with a weather prediction that contained a phrase that was used each day. This made...

He had a few channels in YouTube. https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=charlie+munger. I liked many of his stern, pithy...

Google for "emergent properties". And this basically boils down to eons old discussion between reductionists and their opponents. Don't...

OK, I guess I'm only buying name brand batteries now. Lumafield makes CT scanners for industrial engineering and production testing...

George used to be so dignified and reserved. Frank Zappa took care of that. To me Christian McBride on ebass is the star. Here's my...

That appears to be the case. I would expect a press release from JAEA and/or METI regarding such a deployment. I have not found one...

The hydrogen gas is igniting (as in combustion) or arcing? If the former, it would seem one has an air (oxygen) leak, or free F through...

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I got my degrees in general physics and geophysics and it’s been a long time since then and I am having a hell of a time finding people...