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The sad history of N-Rays was told to us at Uni as an object lesson... Just after the the discovery of X-Rays, a French scientist...
Today, 11:27 AM
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Better get this ore car of a thread back on track to historical anecdotes. The mining textbook original classic, De Re Metallica, by...
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Reminded me of this. In 1934, David Hilbert, by then a grand old man of German mathematics, was dining with Bernhard Rust, the Nazi...
Today, 10:42 AM
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This was very prophetic. “Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime...
Today, 10:41 AM
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A famous one. (Rudolf Peierls documents) “A friend showed Pauli the paper of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great...
Today, 10:41 AM
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Albert Einstein was the most effective fundraiser for the Zionist cause. So much so that after 1948 he was invited to become head of...
Today, 10:39 AM
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Positron discovery in cloud chamber, how so?
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IIRC, our school's cloud-chamber had an optional magnetic field via a pair of coils. Trails from the 'source' spiralled one way for...
Today, 10:30 AM
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My father, a keen gardener, would routinely bag his chain-smoking office colleagues' many cigarette butts, leach those with methylated...
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I think tobacco basically kills everything in the long run.
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Heh: “Yes, giant alien nazi cannibal bugs from space. Can you get behind it?” It’s remarkably “hard” SF for a funny comic though...
Sep 4, 2024
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It’s still available online. I wasn’t aware that the author “went strange”(?). Still, that doesn’t diminish the quality of at least that...
Sep 4, 2024
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IIRC, Alcubierre found a loophole that moving matter at or FTL was impossible --By our math !!-- but moving a bubble of space with mass...
Sep 1, 2024
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Ok I will stop eating them. Thanks.
Aug 25, 2024
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It doesn't include anything sharp or spicy. I don't know why only that brand of biscuits make my mouth very hot... But yeah I might have...
Aug 25, 2024
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The last time I took one apart it had a piston. When did things change? Low temperature can be a real problem for dehumidifiers. I...
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