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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Before the Big Bang.This sounds a lot like the Big Bounce. -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Before the Big Bang.Agree. I was merely addressing the writer's conjecture that a point in space and in time would not be an event. -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Before the Big Bang.Well, an event can be defined by a point in space and a point in time. It sounds like it meets both criteria. -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Tidally-locked planets flipping around their axes.There are kinda cool ideas, though it'd be interesting to see the energy requirements, but: if we have the energy budget to move one... -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Bad Math Jokes.A bit of polishing... girl-eigenvector to boy-eigenvector: "Of course I care. It's just that we have very different eigenvalues, and I... -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Why Is Fan Suction/Intake So Weak Compared to Exhaust?.Yes, as an open system, electricity enters the system and is converted to kinetic energy as air flow. If you time-reverse it, you... -
DaveC426913 reacted to Bandersnatch's post in the thread High School Is it a meteor or a meteorite when it makes moonfall? with
Haha.
Down with the entrenched atmosphericist terminology. There's no weather on the Moon, innit? It should be an ameteorite. -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread High School Is it a meteor or a meteorite when it makes moonfall?.Thanks. I was wondering if it were defined as an 'ite' in the mineral sense since, once on the ground, you'd have to identify it by its... -
DaveC426913 reacted to Drakkith's post in the thread High School Is it a meteor or a meteorite when it makes moonfall? with
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Per wiki: A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon. -
DaveC426913 posted the thread High School Is it a meteor or a meteorite when it makes moonfall? in Astronomy and Astrophysics.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-39332167 These guys keep calling it a meteorite. -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad.: scratches head : Did that five-minute video say anything at all of any substance? Yes. It said that chain of thought monitorability... -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.Was it a topical ointment? Was the effect merely super fish oil ? -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad.There'd better be! -
DaveC426913 replied to the thread ChatGPT Examples, Good and Bad.I believe we have a recent, extant example of it doing exactly* that, kicking around here somewhere, sometime in the last six months...