Posts by starwall@scifi.fyi
 (DIR) Post #3614645 by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-01T07:29:20Z
       
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       Large Hadron Collider? More like Large Hadron COOLider. I have nothing intelligent to say on this topic. The LHC is awesome.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fZ8sIEnIcObIW4DOS by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-06T18:02:57Z
       
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       There are roughly 400 trees for every person alive.There are about 3 trillion trees. But that's not enough. If you have a kid, be ready to plant 400 more trees.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fxHGYMfetj50PIwHw by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-18T09:30:03Z
       
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       There are more species of wasps than there are of birds.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fyTK4Hcps01TaLZ56 by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-18T23:19:42Z
       
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       This is Icarus. The farthest away single star we've ever seen. It's a blue supergiant star, not a supernova or gamma ray burst or anything, just a star, seen from 9 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 light years away.We were only able to see it for a time because it was Gravitationally Lensed by passing directly behind another star and then magnified further by other galaxy clusters and dark matter. Spacetime acted like a telescope for this single star, magnifying about 2000 times.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-icarus-most-distant-star-ever-detected-180968667/
       
 (DIR) Post #9fyTWAtU5Dv5SBpODY by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-18T23:21:56Z
       
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       Due to the speed of light and short lived nature of blue supergiant stars, Icarus is likely dead by now, replaced by a black hole. Its light has traveled a long 9 billion year journey just to get here when it was originally emitted by Icarus so long ago.
       
 (DIR) Post #9g1CEyLUMvffrm1BJY by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-20T06:52:35Z
       
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       Saturn's rings are only about a hundred million years old, and will only last for another hundred million years or so sadly enough. Portions of the ring are falling to Saturn as "ring rain" and were detected by the Cassini spacecraft in 2017.In fact, some astronomers speculate that perhaps this isn't even the first set of rings Saturn has had in the past.
       
 (DIR) Post #9g4vOLAFydZoehU9Gy by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-21T21:12:35Z
       
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       Meet 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘢 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, or Bahamian Gromia. It's a grape sized, (1.2 inch) single celled collusus of a protist that spends its days glacially slowly rolling across the ocean floor.This gentle giant scoops up nutrients and other, smaller microbes by sending out pseudopods that also reach out in front of it and drag it along the seabed. They leave long trails behind them, and some fossilized remains of these trails go back nearly 1.2 billion years!
       
 (DIR) Post #9g4vOMAeEfU3mCfyWO by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-02-22T02:01:14Z
       
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       @Ste1lar It's the closest thing to an alien as you can get really, and I just want to pat it and care for it
       
 (DIR) Post #9gfemeNxwpKgmHYMfw by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-03-11T18:43:13Z
       
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       The Schmidt pain index is named after a guy named Justin Schmidt who went around stinging himself with every insect he could find and rating the pain.He wrote a book about his experience with these 83 stinging insects called "The Sting of the Wild"
       
 (DIR) Post #9gohZbCqVPnfRCSYXw by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-03-15T20:34:33Z
       
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       Project OpenWorm is an open science endeavor to fully simulate a simple virtual organism (the worm 𝘊𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘴) at the cellular level, in its entirety.The goal is to simulate every of the 959 cells of the worm, but it must start with simulating the 302 neurons and 95 muscle cells.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gohzMhv2CZ602HQCO by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2018-11-26T19:32:57Z
       
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       We're landing another robot on Mars right now at the time of this post! Here's the live steam.The InSight lander has drilling equipment as well as seismometers, and intends on using that equipment to learn about the interior structure and characteristics of the red planet. With that information, we may be able to build a more accurate model of the planet's formation and history, as well as what makes our planet so different... https://youtu.be/A9Q-pXVISD4
       
 (DIR) Post #9goiC9SlaWdCggI1B2 by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-01-21T05:59:53Z
       
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       As this blood moon is occurring, here's something to consider. The Moon is 1.3 light seconds away from Earth. That means, if you shine a laser pointer at a mirror on the moon's surface, it will take 2.6 seconds before you see the laser pointer back.All of the planets of the solar system can fit, to scale, end to end, between the Earth and the moon. It took the Apollo astronauts 3 days to get to the moon--flying at 7 miles per second.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gw59NIp2RsqTinkFE by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-03-19T17:05:20Z
       
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       The largest creature to have ever flown in Earth's skies had a wingspan of 10.4 meters (34 feet). That's about the size of a bus. It is called Quetzalcoatlus and it was a pterosaur about the size of a giraffe.Taking off and landing becomes an issue for such a large creature. It is thought that it used the same muscles for flying as it did for taking off, using its wings and a running jump to vault itself into flight. It then would soar like a Condor, flapping infrequently.
       
 (DIR) Post #9he4xU2f9fg3ICuK0m by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-09T22:32:33Z
       
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       The largest SMBHs (Super-massive Black Holes) in the universe are truly gigantic. How they even got so big is a mystery, but we mostly think it was either by a long history of merging with other black holes, feeding on the intergalactic medium of gas and dust early in the universe's history, or by being primordial black holes that formed at the dawn of time itself.The largest known is NGC 1277 and its event horizon would easily swallow the whole solar system.
       
 (DIR) Post #9heWqZ7GgiVXigYECG by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-10T03:03:56Z
       
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       Tomorrow, at 9 AM eastern standard time, for the first time in human history, we're going to have real images of a black hole.The livestream will be broadcast here, and I will have a thread to talk about the results of it right here on this alt account as it happens!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJi0Jy692w
       
 (DIR) Post #9heWqZDIKJKQ1NN2ae by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-10T03:05:52Z
       
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       The Event Horizon Telescope is an array of telescopes the size of the Earth, to achieve the highest angular resolution of any astronomical facility yet.Every night they've been gathering million gigabytes of data. It’s the largest amount of recording in any other experiment in astronomy to date. "Five years ago we couldn't even afford the hard drives for this"The difficulty of this task can be compared to “taking a picture of a DVD on the surface of the moon from the surface of the Earth”
       
 (DIR) Post #9hfGZST6kMHC4RXyl6 by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-10T12:41:10Z
       
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       In a very short while now, about 20 minutes, the EHT team are going to be revealing their results to the public. This single blurry image has taken recording a million gigabytes of data per night for years to make, and the collaborative work of a network of telescopes all across the globe. There is more data involved in this experiment than ANY previous experiment in physics or astronomy.
       
 (DIR) Post #9hfKsF3VEvARn1maoa by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-10T12:53:07Z
       
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       10 minutes!
       
 (DIR) Post #9hfKsFCigeXYFc5xBI by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-10T13:26:23Z
       
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       This image was taken almost entirely with light from the other side of the black hole that just barely escaped falling into the event horizon.
       
 (DIR) Post #9hk53Si0BsYRqMr08O by starwall@scifi.fyi
       2019-04-12T01:24:03Z
       
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       On October 19th, 1991, a single atomic nucleus, smashed into the Earth's atmosphere at 1.5 quintillionths of a meter per second less than the speed of light. That is 99.999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,51% the speed of light. It quickly disintegrated into a shower of light and subatomic particles, seen by the Fly's Eye Observatory. This was known as the Oh My God Particle.The single particle had an estimated 50 joules of energy, about the same energy as a baseball thrown at 100 km/h.