“a new commercially competitive, non-polluting, plasma-based primary source of massive power from the conversion of hydrogen atoms of water molecules to dark matter”
By golly I think I know why it doesn’t get any press :-)
04/11/2019 11:18:03 AM PDT
· 9 of 11 mwilli20
to Captain Compassion
Why are all black churches historic? Asking for a friend.
They are not historic they are "historically black". This usually means they were set up before de-segregation, specifically for blacks. Nowadays they are inclusive and all are welcome although presumably, at many of them, attendance is predominantly from the black community.
02/14/2019 1:07:01 PM PST
· 33 of 43 mwilli20
to freeandfreezing
... packets could arrive with a time difference more than a few seconds.
That sounds like a lot... Quick back-of-napkin calculation: The maximum distance difference between you and 2 satellites is approx. 1 Earth radius, or 6000km. Radio waves travel at 300000km/s (ignoring atmosphere slow down) so the max packet delta time between 2 satellites is roughly 20ms.
Amazingly I solved it by concentrating on the word: YTAJDCNNZNLUA. I picked a letter for N based on frequency and then I found an English word that has NN-N in it...
12/03/2018 11:19:40 PM PST
· 49 of 58 mwilli20
to PIF; HartleyMBaldwin; Mr.Unique; D Rider
There is something very wrong with this Zarkova presentation. I did some research on this wobble and sure enough the distance between the Sun and Earth hardly changes over long periods of time.
For sure it changes during the year quite dramatically because the Earth’s orbit is slightly elliptical, but the closest approach (which happens every year in the first week of January) is extremely stable. From now to 2200 the closest approach between the Earth and the Sun does not vary by more than 8500mi. That is an error of less than 0.009%!
The Sun does wobble ... quite a lot, by millions of miles, but the Earth goes along with it. The Sun moves 2M miles closer to the center of the galaxy, so does the Earth, then they move back. They wobble somewhat in sync.
Intuitively it makes sense. For the Sun to all of a sudden get 2 million miles closer to Earth and stay there for 200 years it would require a gigantic disturbance in the Solar System, akin to a black hole appearing nearby :-)
This lack of understanding of basic orbital mechanics puts in doubt the whole rest of the presentation.