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What are you listening to right now?
StringJunky replied to heathenwilliamduke's topic in The Lounge
Landscape of Earth under the sea as if it were drained. -
Not I. Look how different the area is now from what was conceived by the UN. You can see with my annotations that Israel chopped gaza conveniently to separate Islamic Jordan and Egypt by shrinking most of Gaza up to the line. All they have now is two Israeli controlled checkpoints into Egypt.: Looks like systemic suppression to me. I take it for granted now Netanyahu's MO in all this is 'burying bad personal news'.
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2019 paper from around the time when it was discovered.
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From the JWT site: Summary Infrared capabilities map out molecular structure of outflow NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution look at Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar jet traveling through interstellar space at supersonic speeds. At roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Perseus, the object is one of the youngest and nearest protostellar outflows, making it an ideal target for Webb. Herbig-Haro (HH) objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars, formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shock waves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds. This image of HH 211 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals an outflow from a Class 0 protostar, an infantile analog of our Sun when it was no more than a few tens of thousands of years old and with a mass only 8% of the present-day Sun. (It will eventually grow into a star like the Sun.) Infrared imaging is powerful in studying newborn stars and their outflows, because such stars are invariably still embedded within the gas from the molecular cloud in which they formed. The infrared emission of the star’s outflows penetrates the obscuring gas and dust, making a Herbig-Haro object like HH 211 ideal for observation with Webb’s sensitive infrared instruments. Molecules excited by the turbulent conditions, including molecular hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide, emit infrared light that Webb can collect to map out the structure of the outflows. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-141
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Yes, the BBC are vortexing down the intelligence and impartiality plughole, but hey, they are still a major conduit for official/scientific announcements.
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Imagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would it look like? Well, you can get a clue from this glorious new image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Towards the centre of this object, called HH212, is a star coming into existence that is probably no more than 50,000 years old. The scene would have looked much the same when our Sun was a similar age. You can't actually see the glow from the protostar itself because it's hidden within a dense, spinning disc of gas and dust. All you get are the pinky-red jets that it's shooting out in polar opposite directions. HH212 is sited in Orion, close to the three brilliant stars that make up the "belt" of the mythical hunter that gives the constellation its name. The distance from Earth is about 1,300 light-years. Physics suggests those dramatic outflows of gas are the means by which the nascent star regulates its birthing. "As the blobby ball of gas at the centre compacts down, it rotates. But if it rotates too fast, it will fly apart, so something has to get rid of the angular momentum," explained Prof Mark McCaughrean...... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67243772
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Best thing is a search engine for each concept and it will keep you current. Institute for the Study of War will give a running record of what's going on in the major conflicts atm. If you track the conflicts that interest you, you can jump in and gradually pick up the military lingo and see the right context.
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MTZ is an important drug with pretty wide applications for a drug from what I can see. Maybe that adds to a systemic reluctance to probe deeper, given decisions are based on cost-benefit we bang on about. Even there, it's not the mtz causing the cancer, is it?. The mtz kills the microbiome, then the gut is open to anything carcinogenic.
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Chinese Nuclear Submarine Crew Poisoned By Hydrogen Sulphide
StringJunky replied to toucana's topic in Engineering
This is a Chinese vessel though, so we don't know if they are kitted out to the same principles as NATO's. -
Chinese Nuclear Submarine Crew Poisoned By Hydrogen Sulphide
StringJunky replied to toucana's topic in Engineering
Could H2S have evolved from leaking human-waste tanks? -
80 is old, however you spin it. Why do SC judges and politicians get a pass to retire when then like... are they immortal? This applies anywhere. I am quite cogent of the effects of aging. With old age can emerge belligerence and self-denialism, especially in public-facing positions. This is not intended as a slight on what Biden has done, but an acknowledgement of that we wear out. We reach a point where we can't see the wood for the trees. I've just observed a friend's mother over the last years decline and die of Alzheimer's, so human mental fragility has been quite to the fore in my recent experience.