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Emissions are no longer following the worst case scenario
So where might we be headed instead?
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The most popular blog posts about science & space on Hacker News. 2,038 posts.
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The science of Westworld
How close are we to building the hosts?
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How Radar Works
Radar is one of the most versitile sensors we have to determine what is happening in an environment. Some common applications include air traffic control, weather prediction, automated driver assist, astronomy and terrain mapping. Given that these applications have wildy varying requirements on resolution, range and…
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SpaceX Raptor: Methane fueled full-flow staged combustion cycle engine
SpaceX's new raptor engine is a methane fueled full flow staged combustion cycle engine and its so hard to develop, no engine like this has ever flown before!Now this topic can be really intimidating so in order to bring the Raptor engine into context, we’re going to do an overview of a few common types of rocket…
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How does the US use water?
Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure.
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Building the Largest Ship in the World
The Maersk Triple E is the largest ship on the planet, the pride and joy of the largest shipping company in the world. The ship was a huge hit with the public last year when it docked ...
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How does GPS work?
An interactive exploration of how GPS works: from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.
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What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world
Rich countries are not monolithic. However, outside the US and a few microstates, they vary in a limited range.
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Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
So, have a seat. Put your feet up. This may take some time. Can I get you some tea? Earl Grey? You got it.
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The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (2007)
Physics blog quantum computation
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Lost in Math
Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book Lost in Math should be starting to appear in bookstores around now. It’s very good and you should get a copy. I hope that the book will receive a lot of a…
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Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997)
Bending Spacetime in the Basement
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Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?
3k words, 14 minutes reading time
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Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
Space Engine ...
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Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]
Space Shuttle thermal tiles conduct heat so poorly that after being in a 2200 °F oven for hours, you can pick them up with your bare hands only seconds after th
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What It's Like to View a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch
Olivier Forget's Personal Blog
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In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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It's hard to build an oscillator
Especially if you want it to work.
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An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
Response to Scientific American's "The Complicated Legacy..."
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Color Spaces
Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
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Circles do not exist
Many logos, drawings and other graphical designs have the following shape in it. What is this shape? If you thought: "Ah-ha! I'm smart and r...
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Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignature
It’s not just binary BH’s that can do this, a single fast rotating BH that is tumbling could do it as well.