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by nprecup 4y ago
I thought this was going to be about the show Archer.
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by nprecup 4y ago
I always found the plastic argument in teflon vs cast iron a bit weak. Its health risks are well documented at this point. But the seasoning on a cast iron? That is polymerized fats... One might even go so far as to call it plastic. I am to
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by nprecup 4y ago
Yes, there are several factors that make that location particularly good, not only temperature. The cold and absence of sunlight for months at a time causes a relative absence of water vapor in the atmosphere during winter, which is extreme
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by nprecup 4y ago
The noise is inherent to our sensor technology... Very sensitive telescopes are cryogenically cooled to reduce the temperature of the focal plane, reducing the noise. As in an above comment, the light from distant objects is more spread out
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by nprecup 5y ago
Summer in the PNW is no good - it's sunny every day for months straight! It's terrible!
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by nprecup 8y ago
Quite the change in distance from the sun. Btw, kinetic energy is proportional to 1/r, and is at a peak at the perihelion. Potential energy is highest at the aphelion. It's orbital eccentricity is ~0.94!
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by nprecup 8y ago
From some information in the article, it seems possible to me that the mass sacrifice might have been a cruel pacification technique by the conquering Inca? It says the Chimu empire fell around 1475 to the Inca. The rope and textiles were r
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by nprecup 9y ago
But in this case the media companies are not the ones publishing the photo, Twitter is. The embedded data was never produced or even passed through their servers. It is loaded directly from Twitter.
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by nprecup 9y ago
I can't say this is true for all Universities, but accounting for inflation, at the University of Washington the cost to educate one student is the lowest it has ever been. So at least at one school they have been working hard at keepi
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by nprecup 9y ago
That graph is very misleading. I don't have access to the published paper which may be accurate, but the article doesn't mention the reduction in opioid deaths from 2008-2010, which appears to be similar to 2014-2016. Also, the ti
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by nprecup 9y ago
Interestingly, South Carolina produces most of its energy using nuclear already... It is too bad the broad public perceives nuclear as a 'risky' energy source. It is in fact the safest energy source we have ever developed, in term
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by nprecup 9y ago
You can see the sisters from Mt Adams, which is ~230 km away. I'm guessing there are several more of these that the site didn't catch. You can probably easily see Mt Rainier from 300 km+ standing at the right place. How were these
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by nprecup 9y ago
I do like the idea of coupling self-driving car technology with taxi service and underground highways. When it comes to urban environments, automobiles and associated infrastructure takes up an enormous amount of the available space. It hur
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by nprecup 9y ago
I'm assuming you mean angle of attack, not flight path angle. The aircraft could certainly be capable of a 60 degree climb until it slowed down enough that it couldn't maintain a low enough angle of attack. It probably could only
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Still relevant, Carl Sagan's 1990 commencement address (University of Illinois)(loc.gov)
2 points by nprecup 10y ago|0 comments
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by nprecup 10y ago
Yes! I saw it at the 36 minute mark on the video. That had me curious. I think it was a trick of perspective, it first looked like some huge chunk of debris that the first stage flew past, but after watching it again, it looks like a little
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by nprecup 10y ago
I don't imagine things de-escalating after a couple dozen million deaths... But I hope you're right.
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by nprecup 10y ago
A hypersonic vehicle can travel much faster than that. We're talking about the ability to strike targets anywhere on the globe in minutes. That IS destabilizing. The example of striking carrier groups in the pacific is only the tip of
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by nprecup 10y ago
There is 'elite mathematics', just as there are in every other field. Should we come to the same conclusion for every other subject, just because there are a few gifted individuals who dominate their field? Yet, most math that is
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This is what being a Seattle cop is like(seattletimes.com)
2 points by nprecup 10y ago|0 comments
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by nprecup 10y ago
One of my friends is down at Amundsen-Scott, currently for his second overwinter. He works on the BICEP2 project. When I saw this I was worried it might be him. I was able to reach him over the internet and he let me know he was doing well.
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by nprecup 11y ago
Interesting article. It focused on economics, but didn't really factor in the environmental effects of landfilling or recycling. I wonder how that impacts the economic assessment. Still, generating less waste in the first place is alwa