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Rumours of Mt Wilson's imminent fiery demise are apparently greatly exaggerated. A sensible person is blogging about the fires here:
http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php
I got sucked in to LA Times' hysteria? I must be more tired than I thought.
http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php
I got sucked in to LA Times' hysteria? I must be more tired than I thought.
I wasn't even going to bother looking for the lunar eclipse because it was so cloudy. Then some time around 4:30 or so it got incredibly windy, and all the clouds went away!
I saw the eclipse approaching totality as I was leaving the office, around 6:40 PST. That was really cool. Actual totality is, of course, incredibly boring. I'll go out around 7:50 and see if I can see it come back, or it might be behing a building or another cloud by that point.
Mmm science.
I saw the eclipse approaching totality as I was leaving the office, around 6:40 PST. That was really cool. Actual totality is, of course, incredibly boring. I'll go out around 7:50 and see if I can see it come back, or it might be behing a building or another cloud by that point.
Mmm science.
Apparently at least two of my cow orkers have ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW why, if you microwave a mug of water and then put a tea bag in, the water fizzes and bubbles madly.
Now they know, because I gave them the full physics explanation of it, complete with liberal usage of the phrase "nucleation sites".
Apparently this made several people's day. It certainly made mine.
(As a bonus, I never actually make tea that way.)
Now they know, because I gave them the full physics explanation of it, complete with liberal usage of the phrase "nucleation sites".
Apparently this made several people's day. It certainly made mine.
(As a bonus, I never actually make tea that way.)
Okay. this is kind of cool.
Nov. 15th, 2007 03:25 pmSurfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
None of this fourteen-dimensional shenanigans needed, either...
edited to add: And come on, how many "respectable" physicists use the phrase "Holy crap" in interviews?
None of this fourteen-dimensional shenanigans needed, either...
edited to add: And come on, how many "respectable" physicists use the phrase "Holy crap" in interviews?
