The science behind RHCs liver thread

Gravitational waves as predicted by some thick ****

 

Too small to read on here Songs. Shadows of the Mind?

 

Not really science, but surely photo of the year?

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you have to say though, it's fairly low ****ing rent isn't it?

I recall the Japanese floating balloons over to the USA in wwii

I can only presume satellites are predictable timing or whatever but I guess they will just shoot them down over Pacific in future

 

It actually flew over our house, got to see it in person.

My personal guess is it has nothing to do with photography, it's looking for things that can't be detected from space. Perhaps radar. Perhaps microscopic radiation particles. Perhaps even sensitive enough it can zoom down and find unprotected wifi networks that can be hacked.

China doesn't need a balloon for photos, they have top class satellites for that.

 

Whatever it is, it's low rent solution that cannot be terrible accurate in its trajectory etc.

 

Not very accurate? It managed to pass directly overhead a lot of military bases as it crossed the US, including directly overhead the one in my town, and then directly overhead the air force base the next city over.

Coincidence? It's possible.... But likely?

 

Chinese just like balloons.

 

The Chinese are not stupid. Second largest economy. World's largest industrial base. Becoming increasingly the world's technological leader.

If they decided to send a balloon over, there's a good reason it had to be a balloon and couldn't be a satellite or some stealthy spy plane. They're not so cheap they would resort to 40's spy technology.

... Unless it's all just a political game. Could really be a weather balloon deliberated guided across the US to send a message and tell America "you don't control us". Or could be retaliation to the US sending war ships through seas that China claims belongs to them that the rest of the world doesn't recognize as Chinese

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64620064

only the ****ing yanks.....

who the actual **** asked an air force general at a serious briefing if these were tiny green men in flying saucers.

The guy was very diplomatic with his reply though. he'll be quoted for years on conspiracy sites now.

 

So an Israeli astrophysicist claims he has invented a time machine that would use ultra high powered lasers to create immense gravity and he would use gravity waves to move him back in time. The problem is he needs energy on a galactic scale to get it powered.

Sounds a load of bollocks to me, but he's the astrophysicist.

Anyhow crackpot theories of time travel aside. I always find time travel theories amusing. At least with Doctor Who Time ship it's "Time and Relative Dimension in Space"

Most time travel fiction and crackpot theories ignore the fact that earth is moving, our solar system is moving, our galaxy is moving, our galaxy cluster is moving, heck our entire universe may be moving for all we know.

If you travel back in time without adjusting your location, you'll probably end up billions of miles from where you want to be. Time travel = death unless you can secure the end location. (Not that I personally believe backwards time travel could even be possible... there would be evidence by now... And I don't buy alternate timeline BS because thats creating both energy and matter out of nothing... Violating laws of thermodynamics)

 

Well I will not invite you to come with me to the "grassy knoll" when Kennedy passes this Saturday if you don't believe!

 

So you're the killer! Why'd you do it?

 

To me, time travel is the fly in the ointment of the many worlds theory - if every possibility happens everywhere all the time, in all possible dimensions and time - and nobody has traveled back (or forward) to tell us? So time and inter-dimensional travel is not possible because - nobody has done it. And don't say yet, because yet exists no less than yesterday and the dawn of time. QED.

And of all the brilliant time travel films and tv series (I enjoyed Dark on Netflix, but I did have to download a chart off Wiki to tell me what was going on), one of my favourites was a relatively low-budget, corny one with Chris Krisofferson and Cheryl Ladd called Millennium. I enjoyed it anyway.

 

Brian Cox explained how time travel back in time is just not possible.

I could claim I invented the perfect fusion reactor for unlimited clean energy if only I had galactic scale power to fuel it. what a ridiculous statement to make. this pseudoscientist can at best plain to have a thought experiment theory that can never be proven in practice.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66786611

possible molecular fingerprint of life bearing planet 120 light years away

 

It's imperative that we find a way to destroy this alien threat immediately. Let's launch 10,000 nuclear warheads at the planet to make sure, if there is life there it can't come and anal probe us.

- Sorry, had my Donald Trump hat on for a minute there.


Certainly be interesting, although "means life on earth" doesn't necessarily mean "means life elsewhere", but certainly worth looking to see if we can investigate. It could launch a lot of interest in science and scientific studies (that help us with more terrestrial problems) if we detect life and there is a big push to find out more.

 

the ability of that telescope to distinguish matter last at that distance is amazing