OmicronCeti

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by OmicronCeti 4y ago
Seems like a poor naming choice as Nano is already a common text editor
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by OmicronCeti 4y ago
>There has long been debate in the scientific community about whether Mars had an ocean in its low-elevation northern hemisphere, Cardenas explained. Using topography data, the research team was able to show definitive evidence of a roug
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by OmicronCeti 4y ago
Many, many single-purpose rovers can be sent in the place of a human mission with no risk to human life. There is no scientific justification for sending humans on a science mission, it's mostly just adventurism.
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by OmicronCeti 4y ago
2) https://www.businessinsider.com/yandex-russia-former-news-di... >The ex-head of news at Russia's largest internet company has advice for his former colleagues: quit. >Lev Gershenzon worked at Yandex in various
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by OmicronCeti 4y ago
>Elena Bunina, who is Jewish, is stepping down from her role as CEO of Yandex LLC, 'Russia's Google,' amid the war in Ukraine. Sources confirm she is in Israel and has no intention of returning to Russia https:/&#x2F
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Even more interesting, if you search that string of characters on DDG, the results are mostly Russian...
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
journal prestige does not correlate with review quality. Usually it does, but then there's always reviewer 3...
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Pretty sure journals wouldn't allow it, but who's going to read my dissertation anyway (:
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
A typical PhD dissertation these days is 3 publications in high-quality journals. It is explicitly required at most schools.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
I snuck her into my own dissertation acknowledgements: https://imgur.com/bDgtBAE
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Also, nearly every developed country is experiencing high inflation. Supply << Demand and OPEC wants it that way.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
I would like to meet one of those journals. Every journal I've published with has been a 'pay first, then we publish' model.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
PloS One is not really open access... The vast majority of journals function under a Subscription/Paid open-access model, PloS One just mandates the second option. I've forked out >$4k for a high-quality journal to make my res
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
PDF here: https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1017/apa.2017.26
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Humans Should Not Colonize Mars (2017)(cambridge.org)
2 points by OmicronCeti 5y ago|1 comments
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
>Zhurong’s mission is expected to last three months This seems laughably short, even by the low bar countries like to set for their Mars rovers.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
No. Many aspect of NASA's work is highly controlled under ITAR. I used to have to be debriefed after ANY foreign travel because other people in my lab used image processing software that was covered under ITAR...
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
It looks like the equirectangular Mars projection. Details can be found on the HiRISE or THEMIS sites.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Why should I mind? Species come and go.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Why should we spend trillions of dollars to put a few people on a distant rock when we could spend that money to help many more people right now, and potentially avert the need for a colonial life raft? It feels self-evident to me.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
The 6th extinction is well underway IMO
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
>credible designs As I said elsewhere, I think the disconnect here is between potential and probable. Homo sapiens have twice come to the edge of nuclear oblivion already (being saved only by luck essentially), and I would wager we are a
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
That's simply a facile comparison because most of the fuel is needed to get out of the atmosphere. The energy required for that 0.0005% distance is nearly 66% of the total. Let's say it takes ~8 minutes to get to LEO vs 4,380 minu
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
As I said elsewhere, I do not believe we will ever travel beyond our own solar system so we should preserve what we already have close by, instead of counting on pristine worlds elsewhere.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Hey! Sorry I took so long to reply. The commenter below you is somewhat correct that I would identify as a 'Red' in Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy. I am not opposed to scientific exploration at all, (I work with several peopl
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Thanks, that's more insightful!
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
I commented elsewhere about how much I like the series.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Thoughtful response, thanks for your participation.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
I'd be down, but it's more likely going to be an awful penal mining colony armed with nukes pointed back down at us.
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by OmicronCeti 5y ago
Earth's is more like 3kgs if I remember correctly

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