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ago. Until April 2020, all the FRBs observed by astronomers came from cosmological distances of ...

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regions are a mixture of ices (water, methane, nitrogen and probably ammonia and carbon monoxide, too, all ...

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a gazillion times, we can "sample" the huge space of possible histories of all the particles the ...

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Estimating the trials factor by brute force calculation is possible. All you need is to model the ...

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instance. The real kicker is that they used such shoddy epidemiology- and we all know that epidemiology can ...

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simple. The vacuum was what remained if you emptied a container of all its particles and lowered the ...

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First of all, measure the stick as accurately as you can with the ruler (using a ruler with smaller ...

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The CDF scientists involved in the Z mass analysis were all quite skilled and determined, and they ...

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be affected by all these things. It is so sensitive that it will record even deflections of the ...

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John
”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert · 5 hours ago
John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 15 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

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