Recent content by Bandersnatch

All those seas on the Moon, and nobody's suggested pumped hydro? *runs away*

The new world, maybe. But Australia? Or Siberia? There's always a chance we may live to see a dystopian off-world corporate penal colony, what with the way the world is moving right now.

Fair enough. I've given it a proper listen, and while I had thought there might be some value in listing all the errors, there's just too many of them. A good bulk of those stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of what Hubble constant/parameter represents. The title, at least, is correct.

Don't know the channel. I skimmed over the slides and listened to some of the audio. And while I'd take issue with quite a number of statements, it's not egregiously incorrect. I am in a forgiving mood, though. Is there a particular reason for your posting this here? Are you looking for a...

Yeah, the hideout assault was when I stopped caring for it, even though I kept watching hoping for an improvement. But earlier already, when the soundtrack from Kill Bill started playing over a training montage, it was a sign of things to come.

Io, yo mama papa so fat, his tidal gravity gave you acne!

I really enjoyed the first few episodes. The animation is excellent, and the story initially seemed grounded and human-scale. But then it completely lost me. Turned cartoonish, superhero-y, uneven in tone, and felt like it was trying too much to be hip with its - misguided in my opinion - use of...

Velocities are a distraction. That's just initial conditions. You want to focus on dynamics. The only force acting here is gravity. (image credit R.Verrault, w/modifications) The centre of mass C experiences just the right gravitational acceleration gMC to keep the rod in orbit. Due to the...

A rod would try to orient itself radially, due to tidal forces, in the same way as tidally-deformed ellipsoids of planets and moons orient themselves with their long axes radially, towards the centre of the gravitational field. If there's oscillation, it's around that position...

The point of the study is not to propose that birds can navigate via earth's magnetic field - that would be indeed trivial. Rather, the study proposes a novel mechanism for how that is achieved biologically.

Try this https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/inflationary-misconceptions-basics-cosmological-horizons/ It's not specifically about the Lineweaver and Davies paper, but introduces many of the concepts needed for reading those graphs.

Tagline: Study shows geologists rarely affected by suicide, old age.

No no, the moral is that mathematics is divorced from reality and can lead you astray. Now, physics - physics would have figured it out. You just need to, lessee, assume the horses are spherical, riding on an infinite charged plane...

There's no reason to think that. Certainly none given in the opening post. If you've just found out about methane's role in global warming - that's excellent. But it's not news to climate modelling, and the predictions for the range of temperature increase that percolate to the general...

No negativity was intended. And if there's sarcasm, it's good natured. That's fair.