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billslugg replied to the thread AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified.The first time I catch something intelligent coming out of a computer I'll let you all know. So far I haven't gotten a nibble. -
billslugg replied to the thread Need some help.But light is not intermittent, it is continuous, at least in terms of energy flow, which is represented by the Poynting vector, and it...
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billslugg replied to the thread Need some help.I understand that light as an EM wave has energy. I see the equivalence to the kinetic energy equation. It is missing the 1/2 though...
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billslugg reacted to Catastrophe's post in the thread Introduce yourself! (And show us your swag) with
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billslugg replied to the thread Need some help.I am a degreed engineer and I don't understand it. How do we reconcile E=mc^2?
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billslugg replied to the thread New scientific calculator.How come you added 99?
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billslugg replied to the thread AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilizations.Our Water, Gas and Light organization can't keep their money computer up. I just sat in line twenty minutes to pay a light bill. There...
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billslugg replied to the thread Odds of an asteroid impact in 2032 just went up. Here's why experts say you shouldn't worry.Yes, it could be diverted rather easily. A single launch of a Falcon 9 could carry the needed three ton mass. It could be launched at...
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billslugg replied to the thread AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified.I recently watched an AI generated old grandmother type tie up a scammer for an hour. The guy finally exploded in anger at her...
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billslugg replied to the thread AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified.AI may well have the ability to infect networks and cause havoc, shut the world down, etc. Looking backwards for a trail of ownership is...
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billslugg replied to the thread Question What is the Gravitational time dilation from a spiral arm?.It is fairly small, we'd never notice it. Here's how I know. I've seen calculations that say the center of the Earth is 2.5 years...
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billslugg replied to the thread Did Covid lockdowns really cause temperatures on the moon to drop?.The paper posits that "shock waves" travel to the Moon. Waves of what? Waves in the air? There is no air between us and the Moon...
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billslugg replied to the thread Need some help.I was referring to an earlier comment referencing a liquid interior.
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billslugg replied to the thread Need some help.The composition of the mass has no effect on the orbital calculations. Mass is mass.
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