Alarmed_Economics_90
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j3a1xfb wrote
Reply to I love it here but… by No-Cod7466
My wife and I talk about this all the time. Nowhere in America, save Hawaii, could be better. (We don't want to move to Hawaii for a few reasons, but cost is the big one.)
When it warms up from climate change, Alaska might be in the running, but I think we're stuck unless we want to leave the country.
(I came from Colorado, btw - 20 years there - it's great but.. it's not as good. Mainly because we're green, they're brown.)
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j27k57f wrote
Reply to comment by MisFitLoves in Likely-hood of becoming an astronaut by MisFitLoves
I wish I knew what i wanted to do at your age. Keep your eye on the ball. Set goals and follow through.
One more good link I just found: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2015/11/4/so-you-want-to-be-an-astronaut/
There is probably some ESA guidance too.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1gqn3i wrote
Reply to comment by Herpes-in-space in Hoping to put hard numbers on the universe’s expansion to put it in perspective by melanthius
Yep. Puts it in perspective.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1gq2ku wrote
Reply to comment by Herpes-in-space in Hoping to put hard numbers on the universe’s expansion to put it in perspective by melanthius
I heard someone say the other day "a billion minus a million is about a billion."
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1exr11 wrote
Reply to comment by pete_68 in Can we truly know the age of the universe? by Geodad478
That's called "a straw man" argument, with a bonus false dichotomy.
Pretending that we don't know anything because we don't know everything is a glaring indicator of ignorance - not only of the topic at hand, but more generally of a weak grasp of epistemology and argumentation.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1ejm32 wrote
Reply to comment by pete_68 in Can we truly know the age of the universe? by Geodad478
I assume you left out the rest of the paragraph because you don't know what Bayesian and Strong Priors means.
The inaccuracy is quantifiable if you do.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1dhqap wrote
Reply to comment by pete_68 in Can we truly know the age of the universe? by Geodad478
Yeah, scientists just guess, since they're not sure. /s
There are margins of error that are taken into account when values aren't known exactly. That doesn't mean we just have no darn idea. "It's all theoretical" is wildly inaccurate. The margin of error on the age of the universe is like 1% - so that's a lot, but it's not, like, "could just be anything, we have no idea."
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1dgao2 wrote
Reply to Can we truly know the age of the universe? by Geodad478
Once you figure out that the Universe is expanding, (Hubble did this when he figured out the "red shift" on stars via the Doppler effect) all you need to do is measure the expansion rate today and use the laws of physics to determine how the expansion rate must have changed over time (looking at the oldest stars we can see...) Then you just extrapolate all the way back until you achieve the conditions of the hot Big Bang itself.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iyp35g9 wrote
Reply to comment by Huge_Requirement9200 in Fun 🤩 time already by lennanknight_7
That, unsurprisingly, did not clear it up.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iyos8yw wrote
Reply to comment by Huge_Requirement9200 in Fun 🤩 time already by lennanknight_7
What's a Zima Mike?
Any anyway, what's the problem? Did I say something that made you have feels? Idk what TBH. Are you a little white girl on a cul-de-sac pretending to be gangsta, and this hit too close to home?
Honestly asking.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iyopsyj wrote
Reply to comment by Huge_Requirement9200 in Fun 🤩 time already by lennanknight_7
No way to know. Could just as easily be North Bend as Battleground or Mill Creek.
What I am sure of is that it's far-removed from anywhere where her street cred might be ... questioned.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iynz6sw wrote
Reply to Fun 🤩 time already by lennanknight_7
I ❤️ the prison pose/gang signs (or is that the shocker?) in front of million dollar suburbia homes.
Edit: I think the snow is making me cranky.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_ivwlco0 wrote
Reply to Bellingham Reddit today... by jlabsher
I want an indoor Clydesdale so bad.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_ivv44k4 wrote
Reply to Voyager I by xCardinals7x
Space is REALLY big. Generally speaking, there's a lot of room between objects.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iv2r8pr wrote
Reply to comment by StrawberryTuna_ in What is this? Found washed up at Puget sound. Lions mane? by StrawberryTuna_
See, and I thought you meant lion's mane the fungus, and thought you didn't know much about fungus.
So anyways I'm an idiot. :)
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iv2mmqr wrote
I think it was a jellyfish. Maybe Thetys vagina. (Probably not, but it wanted to say that) some kind of salp though.. unless I'm wrong
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu16ee2 wrote
Reply to comment by ryschwith in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]
So when I think "field" I imagine a large plane, probably with some sort of grid overlaid. More accurately, I think in my mind the "field" is the grid points themselves.. I can imagine it's n-dimensional as well just fine, of course.
So I just found this definition : "The word ‘field' signifies the variation of a quantity(whether scalar or vector) with position."
I think a spin-0 (spherical symmetry with no preferred axis) field, then, is scalar because if the uniformity of the higgs particles.
I know that's not explaining the significance but did that sound right at all so far?
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu12co5 wrote
Reply to comment by MarshyBarsh in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]
So it appears that if the higgs field collapses it releases energy. Unfortunately according to that video it also deletes the universe so I'm not sure if we're going to be able to harness that anytime soon but we could work toward it... maybe have tiny little universe deletions that we could create and harness.. I don't know!
Turns out it's a good question!!
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu11sf4 wrote
Reply to comment by Chadmartigan in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]
I did type it backwards. Should be "makes it so matter has mass."
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu0x288 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]
I don't think you can ask anyone what it really is. :)
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu0uk31 wrote
Reply to comment by LaunchTransient in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]
No worries. I know enough for whatever Jeopardy questions there might be about the subject, and that's how I measure whether I've probed deeply enough
Edit: though there is that saying about how if you really understand something, you can explain it to a five year old...
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu0tblf wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in If the Higgs Field can release energy, can it be harnessed? by [deleted]
You wanna translate that down by a few years of college/research?
Like, for us "Physics without calc" students who had to drop even that.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_iu0qz9u wrote
I'm not sure it releases energy exactly... I think it's like an energy field that makes it so mass has matter matter has mass.
Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j45eedu wrote
Reply to Olympic National Park voted 3rd best in the country by OnlineMemeArmy
I feel like I should be upset for 2 reasons:
(But I'm not because 1) no one will believe it's that good and 2) it's kinda hard to get to. People are lazy. Especially the people who never get out of their cars and who think Jellystone is the best park.)