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Flerf Community strangely quiet today...
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Drakkith reacted to gleem's post in the thread High School Can alpha radiation make other materials radioactive? with
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To give you an idea of why α particles are inconsequential to activating materials, in the lab to get signifcant amont of interactions... -
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Drakkith reacted to mfb's post in the thread Artemis 2 launch - humans return to the Moon after 54 years with Like.
The Artemis program in the US aims to return to the Moon, land, and work on long-term expeditions and a permanent Moon base. At least...
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Drakkith reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread Undergrad Exoplanet, HD 137010 b and it's star, HD 137010 with Like.
An article appeared recently about an earth-like planet, HD 137010 b, which is around an orange start, HD 137010. Of course, I wanted...
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Drakkith reacted to Nik_2213's post in the thread The Short Story Thread: Post Yours Here with Like.
Life World Most galactic species call the Terrans 'Death Worlders', for the myriad ways their home planet will kill you. A few, wiser...
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Drakkith reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread High School Can alpha radiation make other materials radioactive? with Like.
I am aware this thread is about 2.5 years old (OP Aug 9, 2023 with last response Sep 28, 2023), but it is a somewhat important topic...
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Drakkith reacted to pinball1970's post in the thread Undergrad A paper regarding the Hubble tension using Gaia data with Like.
This study uses data from the Gaia telescope launched in 2013 which measured stellar ages of stars greater than 12.5 gy. This set a...
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Drakkith reacted to Jaime Rudas's post in the thread Undergrad A paper regarding the Hubble tension using Gaia data with Like.
Yes, the paper concludes that the age of the universe is: ##T_U \geq 13.8 \pm 1.0## (stat) ##\pm 1.4## (syst) Gyr According to the...
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Drakkith reacted to AlexB23's post in the thread High School A Mind-Boggling Number Comparison with Like.
A standard 3x3 Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 combinations, or 4.32x10^19. Hard to find real world meaning in that number.
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Drakkith reacted to Astronuc's post in the thread Undergrad Abundant water from primordial supernovae at cosmic dawn with Like.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02479-w, published 3 March 2025 It's those Population III stars again...
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Drakkith replied to the thread Can Dogs Talk Using Buttons?.Thread cleaned up and unlocked. I remind all users to refrain from making posts that violate PF rules.
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Drakkith replied to the thread Can Dogs Talk Using Buttons?.Thread locked for moderation.