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Yes. I recall in the 1960s that my folks almost bought a mercury vapor detector for the house. We all have a little hubris, I suppose... -
Yep. No doubt a food metaphor would make this more obvious. There are so many food metaphors that I could use here but it's like going...
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billslugg replied to the thread Earth Science Professorships.I have a particular interest in mercury and its dangers. Once, about ten years ago, I read the latest paper on how it crosses the...
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billslugg replied to the thread Earth Science Professorships.In academia, there is a torrent of papers coming in from outside. They don't use correct scientific language, they don't know the...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question Earth Moon Origin.As I understand it, the dust revoving around a star can provide sufficient angular momentum for form the planets, but a knot of dust...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question Earth Moon Origin.No, it doesn't help. No system can make its own angular momentum. It is born with whatever it has. In order to increase angular...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question Earth Moon Origin.If you put balloons on the surface of the pool water and pull the plug they will simply gather together in the center. If they pool is...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question Earth Moon Origin.The Moon has an iron core 1% of its mass. The Earth has an iron core 13% of its mass. How did they get so different? Also, what put the...
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billslugg replied to the thread Quantum Mechanics: Entanglement.Entanglement can involve opposite states of many quantum states. With photons, entanglement can involve opposite states of either spin...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question Earth Moon Origin.One problem is the Moon's iron core is only 1% and Earth's is 13%. If they formed from separate parts of the same cloud they would have...
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billslugg replied to the thread An introduction to Refractional redshift, and how it was confused with gravitational redshift.On one hand we have agreement amongst the entire scientific community. OTOH we have some guy on the internet. I'm always torn on these.
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billslugg reacted to FaseehSheikh's post in the thread Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may dazzle this weekend. But is the best yet to come? with
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ALERT: A new comet (a Kreutz Sungrazer) has been discovered. It currently doesn't have a name, but it has a designation: A11bP7I! This... -
billslugg replied to the thread Sub-Earth' exoplanet discovered around the closest solo star to us.When you live on a tidally locked planet with a 4 day year, the inhabitable zone would be a narrow strip around the edge. You might get...
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billslugg reacted to Helio's post in the thread Sub-Earth' exoplanet discovered around the closest solo star to us with Like.
Yes, but when it comes to a fork in the road, they seem to take them.
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billslugg replied to the thread Sub-Earth' exoplanet discovered around the closest solo star to us."Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Y.Berra
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