Sunday, January 31, 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Strange Galaxy With a Tidal Tail That's Losing 40% of Its Mass
I find this interesting. Apparently, galaxies interact with each other more than I realized.
The Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way Galaxy in 4.5 billion years.
Since these processes take billions or hundreds of millions of years, from our perspective the universe might as well be static.
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Saturday, January 2, 2021
China Shocked The World By Planting Billions of Trees...Our Turn!
Plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere. All plant material is eventually consumed or decays, which is another form of consumption by bacteria and fungus. This consumption puts the CO2 back into the atmosphere. A small amount of it might be buried. Trees are a reservoir for carbon that can last decades or centuries. This might be useful because according to what I have heard most fossil fuels will run out by the year 2100.
Friday, January 1, 2021
Monday, December 28, 2020
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The 7 Smartest Animals In The World | Answers With Joe
The long thought figure of 100 billion neurons for humans has been disproven. The correct number is 86 billion. Dogs have 2.25. billion. Cats have 0.75 billion. I think that it is safe to say that dogs exhibit more behaviors than cats, but cats are brilliant at being cats. Ants only have 7 thousand. The house fly has 100 thousand, bees have 960 thousand, while cockroaches and praying mantises have 1 million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A84MgzOtOLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A84MgzOtOLA
Thursday, December 10, 2020
FDA panel endorses Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency use | Fox Business
I thought that FDA approval would come today, but they are saying later this week, although there is not much week left. There seems to be some concern about people with allergic reactions. There is also some talk about people being hesitant to take the vaccine. Some of my friends are saying, "You go first", which would be okay by me. We can't make progress without a vaccine.
From what I can tell by casual observation, maybe 10 to 20% of the population doesn't want to take the vaccine.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/fda-panel-endorses-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-emergency-use
From what I can tell by casual observation, maybe 10 to 20% of the population doesn't want to take the vaccine.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/fda-panel-endorses-pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-emergency-use
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Monday, December 7, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020
Fusion is a Terrible Way to Produce Electricity: Princeton Physicist
I find this discouraging. The fusion prototype in France was originally supposed to be working by 2020 or sooner, but now it is scheduled for 2027. I saw their website years ago stating that this was the energy for the future. However, now I learn that this won't even be close to a practical fusion plant.
We have been told repeatedly that we are a decade or two away from fusion energy, but the author thinks that it might be the end of the century.
This makes me wonder what happened to algae fuel?
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
World's Heaviest Weight
I did a calculation and assuming that you were standing 3 meters away, 1 million pounds of mass would generate about one-millionth of G force on your body. Not significant, but it is there. Since the mass is spread out a bit, it might be a little less. If you and the mass were both floating in space, you might very slowly pull toward it. However, it wouldn't take much distance to make the effect negligible.
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Monday, November 23, 2020
Warp Drive News. Seriously! - YouTube
I sort of consider this much ado about nothing.
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