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Today, 04:26 AM

Jens replied to a thread SpaceX / Inspiration4 mission - all civilian in Space Exploration

I'm unsure too, but I think one of the skills that might be important is quickly going through checklists to debug problems, so knowing where to look...

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Today, 02:50 AM

Jens replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

I've heard he's out of the woods though. :)

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Today, 12:21 AM

Jens replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

Sorry, this is a bit of a nitpick from a translator, but if the person was changing speech to sign language, I think it would usually be an...

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Yesterday, 11:30 PM

Jens replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

I don’t claim to understand it well either. But the same thing happens with influenza, so perhaps small changes in R0 end up leading to dramatic...

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Yesterday, 01:51 PM

Jens replied to a thread How long until we have colonize Mars? in Space Exploration

OK, understood. So I understand that when cjameshuff said: You replied: But what you really meant to say is:

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Yesterday, 01:42 PM

Jens replied to a thread How long until we have colonize Mars? in Space Exploration

Yes, perhaps the problem is that you made your post right after mine, without quoting. I think it's better if you make clear what post you are...

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2021-Feb-22, 02:21 AM

Jens replied to a thread Read that again? in Off-Topic Babbling

Also, I have a question (I guess this is off-topic babbling so it's OK). In the pictures: ...

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2021-Feb-22, 02:16 AM

Jens replied to a thread Read that again? in Off-Topic Babbling

Yeah, that didn't read very well. I wonder how many got sucked out. :)

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2021-Feb-21, 10:34 PM

Jens replied to a thread How long until we have colonize Mars? in Space Exploration

So you are saying that my reading of the abstract was wrong and that it was primarily a safety study rather than basic science based on previous...

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2021-Feb-21, 10:31 PM

Jens replied to a thread Trivial (or not so trivial) stuff that makes you happy. in Off-Topic Babbling

I hadn’t ever really thought about that very deeply, but there seem to be times when we make that kind of expansion, especially when ordering food. I...

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2021-Feb-21, 10:22 PM

Jens replied to a thread Moon rotation: forget empiricism, use geometry. in Against the Mainstream

Anditopens, sorry if this is a little bit obvious, but to do an actual measurement, wouldn’t it be fairly easy to put a camera on the moon and see...

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2021-Feb-21, 10:49 AM

Jens replied to a thread Boeing general news, because it's popular in Science and Technology

Apparently it was Pratt & Whitney, but I’m not sure it’s been widely reported. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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2021-Feb-21, 10:26 AM

Jens replied to a thread Boeing general news, because it's popular in Science and Technology

Has there been any information about which engine manufacturer it was? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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2021-Feb-21, 02:50 AM

Jens replied to a thread Boeing general news, because it's popular in Science and Technology

Actually, I just saw it on the news (it made the news in Japan...) It looked pretty nasty. And it said that the plane had reached cruising altitude...

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2021-Feb-21, 02:43 AM

Jens replied to a thread Boeing general news, because it's popular in Science and Technology

Also, although I have no idea if this is true or not, given the circumstances (dropping engine pieces right after takeoff) it could plausibly have...

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2021-Feb-21, 02:36 AM

Jens replied to a thread How long until we have colonize Mars? in Space Exploration

So to test this hypothesis, I went to the paper, and although I can't access the full text, I did read the abstract, and indeed there is no mention...

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2021-Feb-21, 02:14 AM

Jens replied to a thread Question about Earth tides in Science and Technology

Thanks. I guess the question that Lucretius meant to ask, and that would interest me as well, is, do we know what caused the increase in rotation?

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2021-Feb-21, 02:12 AM

Jens replied to a thread How long until we have colonize Mars? in Space Exploration

I kind of agree that it seems like a lot of effort to test something that doesn’t seem to be a big problem. And as you said, they were just using a...

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2021-Feb-21, 01:52 AM

Jens replied to a thread Magnetic Fields Help Shape the Formation of New Planets in Universe Today

I’m not positive about this but I think one factor that stops planets from growing is that the parent star starts putting out a stellar wind that...

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2021-Feb-20, 12:42 AM

Jens replied to a thread Question about Earth tides in Science and Technology

I’m not positive, but I think it has to do with some big earthquakes, like the one in Japan in 2011 and a couple of others off Sumatra and Chile.

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2021-Feb-19, 01:21 PM

Jens replied to a thread Disease and pandemics thread (because it's science) in Science and Technology

Sounds intriguing. One positive thing that could come from this pandemic is that a lot of people are taking a close look at various drugs, and we...

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2021-Feb-19, 01:02 PM

Jens replied to a thread Trivial (or not so trivial) stuff that makes you happy. in Off-Topic Babbling

Whatever.

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2021-Feb-19, 10:33 AM

Jens replied to a thread Trivial (or not so trivial) stuff that makes you happy. in Off-Topic Babbling

And mosquitoes. They suck (in both meanings!). :)

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2021-Feb-19, 12:54 AM

Jens replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

Welcome to the Cosmoquest forum. I'm just wondering, what country are you from? Also, it seems that in general around the world, the numbers are...

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2021-Feb-18, 04:47 PM

Gigabyte replied to a thread Extreme climate change - how much and how fast in Science and Technology

That is not settled science, not even close. The last million years of ice ages does not support that conclusion, nor do the dramatic changes that...

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2021-Feb-18, 04:44 PM

Gigabyte replied to a thread Question about Earth tides in Science and Technology

The presence of the Moon in orbit is slowing Earth's rotation and extending the day by about 2 milliseconds every 100 years. Because of tides.

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2021-Feb-18, 02:22 PM

Jens replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

I really don't know anything about this, so I'm not trying to argue against what you're saying. But saying that Facebook is deliberately trying to...

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2021-Feb-18, 02:10 PM

Jens replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

I’m not sure what it is that annoys you. That Facebook didn’t know how to respond? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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2021-Feb-17, 04:28 AM

Jens replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

Oh, and by the way, the data I used is from here:...

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2021-Feb-17, 04:08 AM

Jens replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

It's sort of interesting, I was just looking at the cumulative statistics for the Western Pacific region. In terms of cumulative cases (by...

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