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The Japan MMX mission launched about day ago. If all works out as planned, it will return with 10 grams of Phobos in 5 years.

I had friends (a married couple) who lived in an apartment in Arlington, VA and who tried this exact experiment. I don't know about 7 years, but in 7 months, you have a very potent smell that cannot be described. That was way more than 7 years ago. I have since moved to New Hampshire. Since a...

But she'll never do it as well as she did in the video.

I was on a business trip to Japan in July/August of 1975. There were only two TV programs that were broadcast in English: "Sesame Street" and "The Partridge Family". I didn't spend a whole lot of time in my hotel room - although "The Partridge Family" did take the edge off my sense of fluent...

So the fixed horizontal axis supports the outer cylinder against the "uniform gravitational field". The inner cylinder must be supported by a "sticky" contact with the large cylinder? The system is put into motion by pushing the outer cylinder, the inner cylinder, or both? It seems to me that...

Since you're working with a guitar, you get to pick the temperament. I asked google to generate wave clips of the C major 7th (264Hz) for well temperament, meantone, equal temperament, just tone. Apparently, PF doesn't support the inclusion of wav files in posts. So here is what I heard. The...

From one human to another, Welcome to these forums!

OK. Well ... I guess my commute to work this morning wasn't that bad.

Bohemian Mechanics (MB), as I understand it, says that the particle's trajectory can be affect "instantaneous" across long spatial distances. This makes it non-local - which is exactly what the Bell Inequality argues for. So it's not a "loophole", it's completely allowed. To go on, I have...

We only need to deal with special relativity (SR) for this one. Right away, we have this problem with that "immediately". Those two measurement events can be either "time like" or "space like". If they are "time like", then one measurement happened before the other and it can create a signal...

John Bell's 1964 paper described tests to decide whether quantum mechanics could be explained by adding "local hidden variables" to restore classical causality and locality. You could phrase Bohmian Mechanics as a "nonlocal hidden variable interpretation", but I wouldn't leave out that...

Hello @jeffn1 : First, look up the Bell Inequality experiments. If you don't understand them, post your confusion here and I will attempt to sort it out. No. The notion of "hidden variables" can only be considered an "interpretation" if it can be used to make the same predictions as the QM...

I am not familiar with FAST telescope, but I can answer more generally. In general, those supercomputers will not be tasked with anything similar to "AI" - at least not at the level of a simple signal detection. They will be tasked with applying well-defined "filters". In all cases, the...

In post 2, I deduced the intent of the question based on the fact that otherwise, there was not enough information. People who are not ready to pick apart the question will have difficulty with the well-known "Two coins add up to 30 cents and one is not a nickel" riddle. More broadly, as a...

You don't have to use the notion of "each time", but it isn't overly pedantic to describe exactly what conditions will result in the "at least one is a six" report .. it's part of the problem statement and it is normal to be that "pedantic" when stating logic problems. You already have...