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phyzguy replied to the thread A Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin?.So, @Line_112 , are you just going to ignore the many redshift measurements of GRBs that have been made? These measurements firmly... -
phyzguy replied to the thread A Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin?.Why do you think this? It is an equal area projection. So dots of the same area will cover the same area of the sphere.
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phyzguy replied to the thread A Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin?.Here is an equal area projection map of the Earth, similar to the GRB map. Areas are not distorted, but of course shapes are. It's not...
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phyzguy replied to the thread A Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin?.What's your point? It's well known that gamma ray bursts are extra-galactic. Look at the Wikipedia page, which says, "In gamma-ray...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Flesh-eating New World Screwworm re-occurrence in US.What is done here is to release a huge number of sterile male flies. The females then mate with the sterile males and lay unfertilized...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Flesh-eating New World Screwworm re-occurrence in US.We're building a new factory in Texas with the capability to produce 300 million sterile male screwworm flies per week. This is how we...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.I strongly agree with the importance of unit tests. But there is more to it than that. I have had cases where the code writer said...
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Thinking about the usefulness of mixing pseudo-code with actual code somehow takes me back to the university in the 80's where we had...
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I have had occasions where I was looking at someone's old code, trying to figure it out so that I could modify it, drawing all sorts of...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Capacitor charge time, two conflicting answers.Yes. Typically you will not be charging a capacitor with a constant current.
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phyzguy replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.I've found that when I'm documenting my code, one of the main people I'm writing the documentation for is me. So that when I come back...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Documentation of (only) source code.My experience has been that the algorithm is usually not the main question when looking at code. I'm agreeing with @Filip Larsen that...
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phyzguy replied to the thread Is MRSA so bad if......My wife is planning a hip replacement surgery. Before the surgery, they tested her skin for MRSA. They said if she has it, they will...
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phyzguy replied to the thread B Feasibility of Sending a Radio Signal Detectable from a Neighboring Star.Also, how large is the receiver?
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phyzguy replied to the thread Can You Become Immune to Mosquito Bites?.My experience is similar. Growing up in the US midwest, I got many, many mosquito bites. Then I spent time camping in Wisconsin and...
