Interesting things in the sciences

John Watt

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I'm not sure this is a random posting.
Halfway through December, it's not freezing, there's no snow or ice,
so I'm walking around more and doing more and getting more computer time.
I am wandering around, perhaps in a haphazard manner, but not aimlessly,
so those could be elements of random behavior,
but I don't know. I didn't know what I was going to type,
so is spontaneity a random aspect that can be induced by global warming?

I think I saw little Johnny Papers on the way over.
 
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JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
And now the Slinky

And more in slow motion
[video=youtube;uiyMuHuCFo4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_314765&feature=iv&s rc_vid=eCMmmEEyOO0&v=uiyMuHuCFo4  [/video]
 

John Watt

Member
"Coronal rain". I'm just going to try and visualize this.
Nah, I'd sooner call it a "sun spurt".

If you can't remember something, try the door thing.
Leave the room you're in, freeing your mind from it's previous enclosed environment,
and let your mind acclimatize anew, so that you remember when you come back.
That's a simple mental state of being, as we all are.
 
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John Watt

Member
I walked through that door,
with thoughts I seemed to erase,
into another room,
hoping my mind would replace.

But that new door slammed,
right in front of my face,
and all I was left,
are these words auto-saved.

But then, some font I had never seen before type-cast my compositional output,
like a florid fling of batons waving as stringed bows in rows were playing,
the hot heat of feedbacking tones rising from the orchestral pit like lava rocks'n'roll,
until, in this moment, what had passed before us was gone and a new emptiness remained,
unlike the echoes of fossilized flutes and instruments carved in stone,
but the dawn of a new rising son and the spirit we know as home.
Liberace's cape is in my brain, after this new movie I'll never be the same.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Felix Baumgartner's freefall to Earth
The numbers didn't change a whole heck of a lot from the preliminary findings. Red Bull Stratos now says the maximum vertical speed was 843.6 mph, or Mach 1.25, ever so slightly faster than the earlier reported 833.9 mph, or Mach 1.24. The jump altitude, meanwhile, wasn't quite so high as earlier thought -- it now stands at 127,852.4 feet, down less than the length of a football field from the previous estimate of 128,100 feet. Either way, it still rounds out to a dizzying 24 miles up.

The distance of the vertical freefall portion (just over 4 minutes) of the overall descent (just over 9 minutes) was shortened a tad to 119,431.1 feet. The earlier estimate had been 119,846 feet.



 
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teddy

Duckmeister
Makes my "jumping off a chair trick" look a bit weak.

I am suprised he did not pass out with the acceleration and terminal speed.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Well I know one thing for sure you would never get me to do anything as crazy as that.
 
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