Bit bad timing for me with European time next Monday, I'm organizing an evening lecture on astronomy that time... well, John will be happy with it hopefully 🙂
Flat earthers bad: pizza good. Enjoying yet another(in its new format) rendition of space/science questions from my favorite journalist. Couldnt help getting out of bed to put a pepperoni yes, pizza in the oven to enjoy the rest of the show. Man the power of words got the best of me here.
Regarding air pollution, I'm willing to bet that most people complaining about pollution are quite happy to buy products from far away places, thus funding the biggest polluters on the planet. Container shipping. Fix those diesel burning air chokers and the vast majority of the planets air quality problems will vanish with it. Rockets and people driving cars are a tiny percentage in comparison.
Well I think that the very people you're referencing, and I'll add in people who worry about _their personal_ carbon footprint, are the people who've most bought into the smokescreen (put up by the large polluters you reference as well as massive corporate interests with the most invested in continuing the status quo & preventing meaningful climate action) that climate change is something we all can, and need to address at the personal level for any difference to be made. This is, as I'm sure plenty of people here know, a gigantic, unproductive lie. It is not the individual taking 20 minute showers and driving to and from work in their car that has to change. The overwhelming majority of emissions and pollutants are coming from a handful of corporate interests with permission from complicit governments. It's a disaster. Yes the individual should feel empowered to do what's in their power to do in their daily life, we shouldn't be discouraging anyone from taking steps to lower their carbon footprint. But nobody should make the mistake of thinking this is anything other than a total societal problem, requiring fundamental change directed by the world's most powerful governments. *We cannot solve the climate crisis, or clean up our environment in any more significant way, at the individual level.*
Fraser, aboard space telescopes... My understanding is that focal-length can be as important as aperture depending on what your trying to do. Can you decouple the camera from the mirror/secondary mirror and make them kilometers apart? Wouldn't this give us bbetter resolution?
Units. I'm more concerned with how to set up two Stargates there, defeat the relevant safeties, and get my pizza back in a tenth to a quarter of a second.
Thank you for the rant. More people need to understand what you said.
He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps, he talks astronomyyyyy 🎶
On Wednesdays he goes shopping and has buttered scones [for tea | with me | for three].
Bit bad timing for me with European time next Monday, I'm organizing an evening lecture on astronomy that time... well, John will be happy with it hopefully 🙂
Hah, the irony.
@@frasercain Hopefully the Asian time slot is a morning where I'm not busy.
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Flat earthers bad: pizza good. Enjoying yet another(in its new format) rendition of space/science questions from my favorite journalist. Couldnt help getting out of bed to put a pepperoni yes, pizza in the oven to enjoy the rest of the show. Man the power of words got the best of me here.
SpaceX is building an API for providing GPS to terminals.
Regarding air pollution, I'm willing to bet that most people complaining about pollution are quite happy to buy products from far away places, thus funding the biggest polluters on the planet.
Container shipping.
Fix those diesel burning air chokers and the vast majority of the planets air quality problems will vanish with it.
Rockets and people driving cars are a tiny percentage in comparison.
Well I think that the very people you're referencing, and I'll add in people who worry about _their personal_ carbon footprint, are the people who've most bought into the smokescreen (put up by the large polluters you reference as well as massive corporate interests with the most invested in continuing the status quo & preventing meaningful climate action) that climate change is something we all can, and need to address at the personal level for any difference to be made.
This is, as I'm sure plenty of people here know, a gigantic, unproductive lie. It is not the individual taking 20 minute showers and driving to and from work in their car that has to change. The overwhelming majority of emissions and pollutants are coming from a handful of corporate interests with permission from complicit governments. It's a disaster. Yes the individual should feel empowered to do what's in their power to do in their daily life, we shouldn't be discouraging anyone from taking steps to lower their carbon footprint. But nobody should make the mistake of thinking this is anything other than a total societal problem, requiring fundamental change directed by the world's most powerful governments.
*We cannot solve the climate crisis, or clean up our environment in any more significant way, at the individual level.*
@realzachfluke1 I agree
Fraser, aboard space telescopes... My understanding is that focal-length can be as important as aperture depending on what your trying to do. Can you decouple the camera from the mirror/secondary mirror and make them kilometers apart? Wouldn't this give us bbetter resolution?
Does this have to do widefield or not.
If the reflector and detector aren't attached then how many times can you point the pair at a new target before you run out of stuff to squirt out?
@jimmirow no. Generally longer focal lengths are used for getting as much detail as possible, usually in a very narrow field of view
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43:00 "degrees Kelvin" then just "Celsius" 🙄 scientist cringe! 😂
Yeah yeah. I know. :-)
Units. I'm more concerned with how to set up two Stargates there, defeat the relevant safeties, and get my pizza back in a tenth to a quarter of a second.
No, Frazer. No humans in space is not bad. It is good. Let's send our robots out there to do or bidding. The age of "spam in the can" is over.