When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off gravitational waves that reverberate across space and time over hundreds of millions and even billions of years.
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I really enjoyed this! Thnx for sharing. It had me thinking about Graeber's essays on intellectuals, vanguardism, and the bullshitification of academia, about Feynman's description of Mayan astronomy, and about a great many manga characters (eg Lelouch's embodiment of the paradox of evil).
Humans are already dressed as apes
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Some interesting answers here,
meta.stackoverflow.com/a/366963
meta.stackoverflow.com/a/367028
Neat info/story!! As a grad student, I had the privilege of touching some student labs equipment that Kusch used when he taught labs at UT Dallas. I could tell he left quite the impression on the senior faculty there 🫡💯💯
One can only hope 😝
Physics in astronomy context = astrophysics 😇
Id day spectral features are more likely, since the pop III stars will be metal poor
I will mail you some snow from winnipeg, u gotta cover the tariffs tho ;p
😁🤩
#LISACommunityTalks
The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Nathan Steinle on a paper by Anuraag Reddy, Nathan Steinle, Samar Safi-Harb, Jo-Anne Brown: "Multi-messenger window into galactic magnetic fields and black hole mergers with LISA", which can be found here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2504.18986
Thats a nice plot. 'Seems to be' is putting it lightly tho. It is systemic, as Catton showed 40 years ago, due to our societal transition from circular to linear economy. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.
Fig 1
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table 2b
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Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Even gentle people recognize that sometimes the decision not to kill is a decision to die.
Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.
Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.
The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.
The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,
And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you.
Children of the Mind
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.
—The Creation of Éa
Ursula K. Le Guin
Its just a linear scaling bw C and F lol
Now do canada 😂
If you are involved with LISA, UBC and other places are making a major push to hire associate or higher faculty for LISA science, i think there was a consortium-wide email about it from Jess McIver
Thank you!
May you please add me? 😇🙃
Maybe theyre thinking that the starlink constellation satelites are unlikely to collide with themselves, so lowering them all will move them out of the way of other space debris thst are not part of the starlink constellation. They can control the positions of the constellation, not the other debris
Oh i see. The epicycles dont apply to the Fixed Stars (8th sphere), Primum Mobile (9th sphere), or the Empyrean; only to the planets. Makes sense! This article helped
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