Science!

[taniwharugby]

Not sure the image does the story any justice...

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/03/new-analysis-reveals-dynamic-volcanism-on-venus.html

[antipodean]

@taniwharugby One wonders why they even bothered including a picture.

[taniwharugby]

certainly not what I expected it to sound like....I thought it'd be more storm like than whale like....

[taniwharugby]

[Stargazer]

This is the first tweet of a thread. There are some odd creatures in the oceans! With odd names.

(For who doesn't know how Twitter works, just click on the X (or twitterbird if you still get that one) in the top right corner of the tweet to go to the thread)

[nostrildamus]

@Snowy said in Science!:

Without reading his bio - John ended up in Perth? I'm going to put this here which will annoy some but it is engineering / science related and makes me laugh.:

maybe answered maybe too old but I'm pretty certain he went to Melbourne and his wife was an academic there

and I think one may be able to visit his park

Jul 29, 2020

Satirist John Clarke left more than a comedy legacy when he died. Now, his family's giving it away

Helen McDonald, the wife of the late John Clarke, gifts the couple's eight-hectare property in Rhyll Inlet to a nature conservation group to create a lasting legacy for the much-loved satirist.

which is in a way science-related...

[Stargazer]

Having never been to Australia (other than airports in transit), I had never heard of this animal before.

Kate Dutton-Regester  /  Feb 12

They sense electric fields, tolerate snow and have ‘mating trains’: 4 reasons echidnas really are remarkable

Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting

[Machpants]

@Stargazer So not a big interest in the Olympics then? 2000 mascot was an echidna

[Stargazer]

@Machpants I usually don't pay attention to Olympic mascots.

[canefan]

@Machpants said in Science!:

@Stargazer So not a big interest in the Olympics then? 2000 mascot was an echidna

I don't think it looked like that echidna

[Tim]

[taniwharugby]

thats a good thing init

Can't wait!

Stuff

[dogmeat]

Don't tell Cindy. She'll close the borders!

[MiketheSnow]

@taniwharugby said in Science!:

thats a good thing init

Can't wait!

Stuff

But they can’t tell me if I can put the washing out tomorrow

[taniwharugby]

Enjoy listening to Cox speak.

This is still hard to get your head around...

[Dodge]

How can you travel at the not quite the speed of light to something 250 million light years away in 50 years? Surely it would take you 250 million years to travel to andromeda AT the speed of light? What am I missing?

I don’t understand this stuff, my brain is not capable of understanding it

[taniwharugby]

Well, it's obvioulsy because
L = 356⅔~Sp + 2Fim /250m

[Bones]

@Dodge yeah right? If a light year is how far you can get in a year travelling at the speed of light, it strikes me that going slightly slower wouldn't help you to get somewhere in 50 years that is 250,000,000 years away.

[taniwharugby]

Light years and time are different ways to measure time though arent they?

As in 1 light year is nothing like 1 year for us?

As I said above, I don't know, I can't get my head around it.

[MajorRage]

Light year is a distance, not a time. If you are travelling 250mm lights years in 50 years, then you are travelling at 5mm x the speed of light.

Been a while since I've done heavy physics, but I didn't think you could travel faster than light, and as you get closer to it, time slows down.