
The WISE In NEOWISE: How A Hibernating Satellite Awoke To Discover The Comet

Over the last few weeks the media has been full of talk about NEOWISE, one of the brightest and most spectacular comets to ever pass through our solar system that you can still see if you hurry. Wh…
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Better consult Jordan "the great oracle" Peterson for answers.
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looks like a similar sized bit of plywood would have the same effect
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Lurkylurker returning bringing shit news really, discovered them half through here, half through a colleague. Sounds!
youtu.be/a820Xo4XdB8
Been so long literally have no idea how to embed the Tubes of You properly, soz.
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Thought you might like to see.
When it came through it said
Share this link with friends/Family and Contacts. For every video they get, you get 10% commission
e.g If someone gets a video for $50 and you will get $5
www.celebvm.com/FAN39BFVT4X
so, if you do use, I'll stick any commission in the pot and we'll see if we can agree on its' best use.
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youtu.be/A7sfZ7WMoXg
You get 300 characters to get the info in, for them to work with. TBF, I gave Purchase little to work with other than some abuse.
Most of them on the site have an example of their level of commitment before you cough up.
He might have shaved though
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twitter.com/pinknegligee
the whole cast seem to be on it, officially, including Clem. @ClemFandango_uk
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Dunno what's best about this - the enigmatic dancing, the banging generic dance music, the 'well I'll give it a punt but I'm not promising anything' approach to acting, the fact that they couldn't find anyone who fitted the only cruise captain's jacket in Kilwinning or its absolute refusal to ever bloody end.
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also GC albeit from a time long, long ago
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But I'm glad I didn't - that was hilarious. Now I'm going to have to watch the rest of it to find the parkour bit.
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What a terrible way to go.
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The owners taste in women is a bit obvious too.
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I saw Devine a couple of times just hanging out at the Camden Palais.

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should be Divine
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Nobody else ever sounded or looked like this, maybe nobody every will again
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This was recommended from the Honest John YT video.
Salvé, salvé, salvé, parve?
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Never put it to music though...
qo’ lughmoHlaHlaw SoH neH - Only you can make this world seem right
Hurgh wovmoHlaw SoH neH - Only you can make the darkness bright
SoH’e’ ej SoH neH - You and you alone
DISeymoHlaH - Can thrill me
‘ej bang DIlo’ teblaHmeH tIqwIj - And [can] fill my heart with love
jeH ngaS choHvam lInglaH SoH neH - Only you can make this change in me.
teHmoH SanwIj SoH - You are my destiny
ghopwIj Da’uchDI’ - When you hold my hand
vuQlIj jIyaj - I understand your (magic)
najwIj SubmoHta’ SoH - You are my dream (come true)
SoHwij neH - My (one and only) you
jeH ngaS choHvam lInglaH SoH neH - Only you can make this change in me.
teHmoH SanwIj SoH - You are my destiny
ghopwIj Da’uchDI’ - When you hold my hand
vuQlIj jIyaj - I understand your (magic)
najwIj SubmoHta’ SoH - You are my dream (come true)
SoHwij neH - My (one and only) you
najwIj SubmoHta’ SoH - You are my dream (come true)
SoHwij neH - My (one and only) you
Why can't we use code or tt tags?
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Material that cannot be cut would make the ultimate bike lock

Engineers have created the first artificial material that effectively cannot be cut, holding out the promise of lightweight but cut-proof bike locks, security doors and protective clothing
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Whilst it may be resistant to mechanical cutting, its constituent materials are unlikely to resist thermal cutting.
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The ceramic component likely won’t be affected by the heat from a gas axe, and you can’t cut aluminium with one because aluminium oxide has a much higher melting point than the metal does.
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But the jet is likely to be disrupted by the ceramic making deep cuts impossible.
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If all else fails, try gallium.
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also, there are quite a few materials that are beyond the ability of regular anglegrinders to cut, but they are prohibitively costly
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Clickbait headline really, wouldn't mind some to play with though.
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A (large bubble size) electric guitar body would look awesome.
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And from the text, once it is inside the metal - that's when it blunts the blade. So it seems to be soft under pressure, so probably wouldn't be able to saw. It's most likely flop apart.
For a lock, how thick would it have to be to protect the lock mechanism? Would you actually benefit weight-wise?
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I doubt we’ll see it used in locks because it’s really, really expensive to make.
More likely it’ll be used for armour; foamed metals without ceramics are already pretty good against bullets.
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Once damaged aluminium isn't cost effective to repair, as I found a few years back (unless you are able to do the work yourself). Whereas steel sounds like a piece of piss to find someone who can repair it.
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If lockpicking lawyer has taught me anything, it’s that it’s the lock mechanism that’s the weakest point. If you have the time to angle grind then you have the time to deal with the lock.
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tiny angry cat at vet clinic

A bad little cat during treatment at the clinic
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I need to see it as an adult, versus the vet and a suppository.
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Yes, Atari tell us they're partnering with Gamejolt. Turns out they're an indie company, but is it anything to get excited about? Let's dive into it.
mod edit: have some Italo Disco instead
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This chap seems to produce a bit of paedo-friendly content, so it would seem out of character for SockCooker to promote it without condemning it.
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perhaps that could be expanded to interrogate the names of channels or videos linked to?
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Fairly sure mods can see if multiple usernames are posting from the same IP ...
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Oh.
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One of the finest bits of physical comedy ever committed to film.
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That is spectacular. I’d not seen this before. Need to seek out more stuff.
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Sort of ‘sort it out yourselves’.
Huge Hindemith lover
Piano Sonata No. 1 in A Major: I. Ruhig

Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment Piano Sonata No. 1 in A Major: I. Ruhig · Glenn Gould · Paul Hindemith Glenn Gould plays Hindemith: 3 Piano S...
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I'm only just beginning to delve into Hindemith, especially since noticing how Kraftwerk borrowed Sonata for Flute and Piano for the tune of Tour De France.
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(London Line Promo Video, 1967 London)
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played in Belgium.
(The only planet where they don't know what 'Belgium' means)
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best of all the horses
no, wait...
excellent drumming too, by the way
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better phrasing and dynamics. people worship trane for his innovation, but as with free jazz I reckon part of the appeal is that by appearing to like the shrillness, the unmelodic dissonance, by association they too will seems cool and complex. /b3ta jazzfight
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and the richness of his tone stands out.
I used to be really into free jazz, until I noticed the one thing you're not free to do is to get into a groove, which is the opposite of free.
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I know one or two of you on here like science, space and/or music, so this is for you.
Bluedot Festival is a really good festival held at Jodrell Bank (radio telescope in Cheshire) the last 4 years (I've had the pleasure of working them all), but they had to cancel this year due to lurgi. They are doing a virtual festival this weekend instead, with talks, live and archival music performances and DJ sets.
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perfect for a single person who enjoys eating beans from a tin, drinking a can of super strength lager and then crying themselves to sleep
Check out this property for sale on Rightmove!

Studio flat for sale in Colville Road, W11 £200,000. Marketed by Douglas & Gordon, Notting Hill
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Not sure how that passed building control.
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Not that you'd ever want to shut yourself in there
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I assumed it was a cupboard and there was a shared toilet down the corridor
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Of course you could just put an indicator latchset on the front door and call it a cubicle.
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though I'm sure there's better than this to be found elsewhere
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Can you spare 3 hours a day for travel?
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71008425.html
Plus an 8 grand one year railcard it's still cheaper.
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I went further and moved to a village near Diss and spent my entire day commuting into and out of London. I chose poorly.
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For when you move your whole family in
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So, about 400 ferry crossings @ £50 each and you can buy this place:
www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-94842305.html?currencyCode=GBP
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£200,000 and you can't even LIVE THERE.
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via The Orb
youtu.be/JgsQuibP-p0
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Belgium was just invented so France and Germany would have somewhere to fight.
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so maybe we should just not bother going
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I'd happily support sending all the Instagrammers there and only on arrival telling them that there's no internet.
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The atmosphere would be deathly toxic... if it weren’t too thin to matter.
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Toxicity might be around third or fourth on the list of potentially fatal issues. Some way below temperature and pressure.
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But it still is what it claims to be.
We need a decent sized comms relay network around Mars before it's feasible to stream video back (and forth), which should hopefully be one of the first things a Starship does when it arrives there... You could fit a shitload of fairly large satellites into a Starship.
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best one out there at the moment is on MRO - clicky
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Or linky no worky.
You could have fucking huge lightweight expanding dish antennas on fairly small satellites, power generation and battery storage would be the limiting factors, I think. Like, if your dish obscures your solar panels, you're not going to be able to transmit for very long.
Oh and just one big dish sat wouldn't cut it, you'd want a network dense enough to maintain constant line of sight with Earth's comms network.
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it was to the comms system on the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter, 3 metre antenna, 6 Mbit/s, but now only 2 iirc
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Yeah that's what I'd call a fairly large satellite. 1-2t. Pack a dozen or so of them in a Starship and Bob Kerman's your uncle.
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Starlink makes sense where you've got people distributed all over the surface who need to talk to each other. Any initial Mars settlement is going to be concentrated in one place and the only distant thing they'll need to communicate with is Earth. You could just as easily do that with one or two large comms sats instead of 25,000 small ones.
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but a good dozen or so decent sized (around 1t or so) comms satellites would do.
You could probably get away with three giant ones if they are all high enough up. Just having one in geostationary orbit (areosynchronous if you're a pedant) would mean being cut off from Earth whenever your side of Mars was facing away from Earth. A small network of big satellites in geo would make constant communication possible.
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Three big ones is probably the way to go to get the bandwidth back to earth. They wouldn't need to be stationary either as long as they were 120 degrees apart in the same orbit, that orbit could be anything you choose. Tracking satellites is a solved problem.
If you could live with short breaks, you could probably stick two in a really high orbit at 180 degree separation. You've got the communication delay to factor in anyway, so you could probably live with that.
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And I'd want a further 9 for redundancy. :D
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Really? Are you sure?
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