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Post by nyx on Sept 3, 2018 21:09:09 GMT
Swamprat,
My parents ( who are deceased ) were born in 1916, and my parents carried the mental scars of "The Great Depression".
Me and my siblings were poor as children, but as time went on, my father got some good breaks and things got better.
I know that there are all kinds of names like "baby boomers", "millennials", "me generation", but I think people know they have to work for what they want.
I do not think most people are looking for a free ride, BUT I could be wrong about that.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 4, 2018 12:00:52 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 4, 2018 17:07:05 GMT
Science Alert
That Leak on The ISS Was Made by a Person. Here's What We Know So Far
The plot thickens.
CARLY CASSELLA 4 SEP 2018
Last week astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) awoke to a worrying message from flight control.
Hidden somewhere on board the ISS was a tiny pressure leak that was slowly allowing air to seep out of the spacecraft and into the abyss.
The six astronauts on board were not in any imminent danger, although locating the leak was their top priority for the day. The US crew hunkered down in the Russian segment and sealed off all the compartments one by one.
A two millimetre hole was at last discovered in the Russian segment itself. And while that hole may not seem very big, if nothing had been done to fix it, it would have deprived the ISS of air in just 18 days.
The hole was immediately sealed over with a special type of tape to buy the astronauts some time for a permanent solution.
Meanwhile, a special commission was set up by the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos to investigate the cause of the rupture. What they found was unexpected.
At first it seemed likely that the tiny hole had come from a micrometeoroid impact - one of the many bullets of debris that whizz around in space.
The theory was even supported by former astronaut Scott Kelly, who explained that this sort of thing happens all the time.
"We've dodged a lot of bullets over the past 20 years," he tweeted.
But as the inquiry progressed, the hole began to look more and more like it came not from the outside, but from the inside.
"We are considering all the theories," said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, according to the Russian news agency Tass.
"The one about a meteorite impact has been rejected because the spaceship's hull was evidently impacted from inside".
Then, things began to get shadier. A photo, released by NASA and then mysteriously deleted, reveals what looks strangely like a drill hole.
"It was done by a human hand - there are traces of a drill sliding along the surface," confirmed Rogozin.
Rogozin assured the media and the public that the Russian space agency was doing everything it could to find the culprit.
"It is a matter of honour for Energia Rocket and Space Corporation to find the one responsible for that, to find out whether it was an accidental defect or a deliberate spoilage and where it was done - either on Earth or in space," he said, referring to the Russian manufacturer of the space craft.
Right now, the leading theory comes from an unnamed source at Energia, which told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that "[t]he hole was made on the ground" and that "[t]he person responsible for the act of negligence has been identified".
Another anonymous source confirmed that the hole was accidentally drilled by a worker at Energia, who decided to hide their mistake with a seal and decorative fabric instead of reporting it.
For two months, the gamble paid off. Their patchy solution even managed to pass the spacecraft's pressurisation tests before it was launched into space to meet up with the ISS. But then, the seal began to leak.
"[Once in orbit], the glue dried and was squeezed out, opening the hole," the second source told RIA Novosti.
Repairing the hole has been neither simple nor straightforward, and the problem may have even caused a few cracks between Moscow and Houston.
It appears that the Russian space agency wanted to immediately and permanently seal the breach with a special glue, adding insulation and medical gauze on top.
But NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, who is currently in charge of the 56th ISS mission, was uncomfortable with the plan. In audio from the event, Feustel asks flight control in Houston if the proposed glue has any expanding properties to it.
more after the jump:
www.sciencealert.com/that-leak-on-the-iss-was-made-by-a-human-and-not-a-micrometeoroid
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 4, 2018 17:09:09 GMT
Published on Aug 30, 2018
About 7 p.m. EDT Wednesday, International Space Station flight controllers in Houston and Moscow began seeing signs of a minute pressure leak in the complex.
Crews onboard have been discussing possible repair techniques with Russian cosmonauts keen to plow on with a permanent repair. NASA Astronaut and ISS Commander Drew Feustel is keen to perform tests on the ground first.
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Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Sept 4, 2018 17:16:27 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Sept 4, 2018 23:59:48 GMT
Nike Inc nke as of Sep 04 4:00 PM ET Markets are closed 79.60 -2.60 -3.16% SHALOM...ZZZ
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 5, 2018 11:25:00 GMT
Good morning all,
Greenwich Patch
UFO Sightings Skyrocket This Summer In Connecticut
Here's where you're most likely to see E.T.'s shiny ride. Did you see any of these UFOs in Connecticut skies?
By Brian McCready, Patch National Staff Sep 4, 2018 1:03 pm ET
The number of recent reported UFO sightings in Connecticut has skyrocketed this summer and for the year we're up to 64 sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. Based on the reported sightings, Newington and Bristol lead the way by a landslide.
Here are all of the Connecticut communities that have reported at least one sighting in 2018 thus far: Newington, Bristol, Eastford, Lebanon, Plainville, Norwich, Fairfield, Plantsville, Danbury, Branford, Greenwich, West Haven, Southington, East Hartford, Norwalk, Bethany, Vernon, Stratford, Pawcatuck, Trumbull, Clinton, Meriden, Berlin, Shelton, Jewett City, Hartford, Torrington, Tolland, Middletown, Ridgefield, Darien, North Haven, Waterford, Winsted, Watertown, Bridgeport, Hebron, Southbury, and Coventry.
So does all of this mean there is something out there? Who knows. There have been 10 reports in August, 13 in July, and 14 in June.
Here are some reported accounts of various UFO sightings in Connecticut.
"Going I 95 S, Branford CT. People pulled over looking up. I looked up & pulled over to take photo. Seemed to be over New Haven. 2 objects. 1 white ... cigar shape just hovering next to an irreg shaped black (trapezoid) also hovering but spinning slowly," reported on Aug. 2.
"8 slow mo(v)ing objects. I saw a bright object in the western sky. Then 3, then 5 and finally 8. they were (elongated) tic tac shaped with a reddish end with a long cable hanging down. They went in different directions. two turned south, three went north and the others just hovered slowly above my head for 40 min. They changed shape from a bent tic tac to an hourglass on its side. they rotated slowly and faded and vanished," reported on June 30 in Bristol.
"Large Bright Lights at the end of a Wingtip, humming vibration felt through the air! Stood out my deck at around 22:30 hrs, when I looked up and saw 2 bright lights, at first I thought it was the lights at the wingtip of a massive Jumbo Jet going to crash and my first instinct was to run in and get my family out due to an imminent plane crash. Then for a minute or so it turned at an angle and what looked like even brighter lights (like after burners of a jet propulsion system) it turned and very quietly disappeared into the clear skies! There was a slight humming sound and I could feel an uneasy vibration in the air. This felt like one was standing in front of a large Airbus A380 coming head on towards you, but with an eerie humming sound! Spooked for sure!" reported on June 4 in Danbury.
"Driving down 84 West towards Flatbush Ave exit. I spotted 3 floating orbs in almost a triangular formation. They were too high to be drones. They had an orangeish glow similar like that of a planet. I ruled out planets because the sky was cloudy. The orb at the highest point was moving slow, but erratic, while they other 2 seemed to hover in place," reported on April 30 in Hartford.
"Egg shaped object flying over Tolland to then disappear.On the night of April 22, 2018, my girlfriend, my friend ((male name deleted)), and I, were pulling out of my driveway to bring my girlfriend home when a large oval/egg shaped object that was a white with a green kind of glow to it flew past my vehicle, and then after about 10 to 15 seconds, it's like the lights went out and it was gone with no track of it moving in a different direction or altitude. As we got to the top of my street, which peaks the top of a mountain, we looked around all directions and it was nowhere to be found. Thinking it was just a plane, but if it was, we could easily still see it from the peak of the hill. At that point we all couldn't believe what we saw, but we know for sure by the way it was flying and how it just disappeared it was not something of this planet," reported on April 22.
The NUFORC has existed since 1974 and investigates reported sightings around the world. There have been more than 90,000 reports made globally.
You may think states like New Mexico — home of the infamous 1947 Roswell "UFO crash" (actually, the Air Force said the crash involved a weather balloon, not a flying saucer) — have the most sightings. However, a report by 24/7 Wall St., which is a financial news and opinion site, suggests you're just as likely to see E.T. in the Northeast and Northwest.
Here are the top 10 places in the country for UFO sightings per 100,000 residents.
Vermont
Oregon
Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Arizona
New Mexico
Alaska
Montana
Idaho
The most commonly reported UFO at 13 percent appears as a light. Others include disks, spheres, cigars, flashes and even formations.
Check out all the Connecticut sightings reported to the UFORC here: www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlct.html
Patch Editor Dan Hampton contributed to this story.
patch.com/connecticut/greenwich/ufo-sightings-skyrocket-summer-connecticut
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 5, 2018 11:29:34 GMT
Science Alert
A Fundamental Physics Law Just Failed a Test Using Nanoscale Objects
Weird.
MIKE MCRAE 5 SEP 2018
Planck's law of radiative heat transfer has held up well under a century of intense testing, but a new analysis has found it fails on the smallest of scales.
Exactly what this means isn't all that clear yet, but where laws fail, new discoveries can follow. Such a find wouldn't just affect physics on an atomic scale – it could impact everything from climate models to our understanding of planetary formation.
The foundational law of quantum physics was recently put to the test by researchers from William & Mary in Virginia and the University of Michigan, who were curious about whether the age-old rule could describe the way heat radiation was emitted by nanoscale objects.
Not only does the law fail, the experimental result is 100 times greater than the predicted figure, suggesting nanoscale objects can emit and absorb heat with far greater efficiency than current models can explain.
"That's the thing with physics," says William & Mary physicist Mumtaz Qazilbash.
"It's important to experimentally measure something, but also important to actually understand what is going on."
Planck is one of the big names in physics. While it'd be misleading to attribute the birth of quantum mechanics to a single individual, his work played a key role in getting the ball rolling.
Humans have known since ancient times that hot things glow with light. We've also understood for quite a while that there's a relationship between the colour of that light and its temperature.
To study this in detail, physicists in the 19th century would measure the colour of light inside a black, heated box, watching through a tiny hole. This 'black body radiation' provided a reasonably precise measure of that relationship.
Coming up with simple formulae to describe the wavelengths of colour and their temperatures proved to be rather challenging, and so Planck came at it from a slightly different angle.
His approach was to treat the way light was absorbed and emitted like a pendulum's swing, with discrete quantities of energy being soaked up and spat out. Not that he really thought this was the case – it was just a convenient way to model light.
As strange as it seemed at first, the model worked perfectly. This 'quantity' of energy approach generated decades of debate over the nature of reality, and has come to form the underpinnings of physics as we know it.
Planck's law of radiative heat transfer informs a theory describing a maximum frequency at which heat energy can be emitted from an object at a given temperature.
This works extremely well for visible objects separated at a visible distance. But what if we push those objects together, so the space between them isn't quite a single wavelength of the light being emitted? What happens to that 'pendulum swing'?
Physicists well versed in the dynamics of electromagnetism already know weird things happen here in this area, known as the 'near field' region.
For one thing, the relationship between the electrical and magnetic aspects of the electromagnetic field becomes more complex.
Just how this might affect the way heated objects interact has already been the focus of previous research, which has established some big differences in how heat moves in the near field as compared with the far field observed by Planck.
But that's just if the gap is confined to a distance smaller than the wavelength of emitted radiation. What about the size of the objects themselves?
The researchers had quite a challenge ahead of them. They had to engineer objects smaller than about 10 microns in size – the approximate length of a wave of infrared light.
They settled on two membranes of silicon nitride a mere half micron thick, separated by a distance that put them well into the far field.
Heating one and measuring the second allowed them to test Planck's law with a fair degree of precision.
"Planck's radiation law says if you apply the ideas that he formulated to two objects, then you should get a defined rate of energy transfer between the two," says Qazilbash.
"Well, what we have observed experimentally is that rate is actually 100 times higher than Planck's law predicts if the objects are very, very small."
Qazilbash likens it to the plucking of a guitar string at different places along its length. "If you pluck it in those places, it's going to resonate at certain wavelengths more efficiently."
The analogy is a useful way to visualise the phenomenon, but understanding the details of the physics behind the discovery could have some big impacts. Not just in nanotechnology, but on a far bigger scale.
This hyper-efficient rate of energy transfer could feasibly change how we understand heat transfer in the atmosphere, or in a cooling body the size of a planet. The extent of this difference is still a mystery, but one with some potentially profound implications.
"Wherever you have radiation playing an important role in physics and science, that's where this discovery is important," says Qazilbash.
This research was published in Nature.
www.sciencealert.com/planck-radiative-heat-transfer-fails-far-field-nanoscale-objects
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Post by HAL on Sept 5, 2018 20:44:45 GMT
Newton's laws for gravity held sway for a very long time. Then they were replaced for the more critical things. They still work well enough for everyday usage.
Science works this way. No worries.
HAL
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Post by ZETAR on Sept 6, 2018 4:18:22 GMT
UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6136563/Four-UFOs-spotted-flying-presidents-Scottish-golf-course.html
Four UFOs were spotted flying over US President Donald Trump's golf course in Scotland.
A golf fan shared a picture of the mysterious objects, seen in the sky above a Scottish flag at Trump's Turnberry club in Ayshire.
Alongside the snap on the UFO Stalker website, he revealed his niece had taken the picture from the balcony of the room at the luxury resort at around 8pm on August 16.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 6, 2018 11:36:58 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers!
Science Alert
For The First Time, Scientists Have Teleported And Measured a Quantum Gate in Real Time
Welcome to the future.
MIKE MCRAE 6 SEP 2018
Around 20 years ago, two computer scientists proposed a technique for teleporting a special quantum operation between two locations with the goal of making quantum computers more reliable.
Now a team of researchers from Yale University have successfully turned their idea into reality, demonstrating a practical approach to making this incredibly delicate form of technology scalable.
These physicists have developed a practical method for teleporting a quantum operation – or gate – across a distance and measuring its effect. While this feat has been done before, it's never been done in real time. This paves the way for developing a process that can make quantum computing modular, and therefore more reliable.
Unlike regular computers, which perform their calculations with states of reality called bits (on or off, 1 or 0), quantum computers operate with qubits – a strange state of reality we can't wrap our heads around, but which taps into some incredibly useful mathematics.
In classical computers, bits interact with operations called logic gates. Like the world's smallest gladiatorial arena, two bits enter, one bit leaves. Gates come in different forms, selecting a winner depending on their particular rule.
These bits, channelled through gates, form the basis of just about any calculation you can think of, as far as classical computers are concerned.
But qubits offer an alternative unit to base algorithms on. More than just a 1 or a 0, they also provide a special blend of the two states. It's like a coin held in a hand before you see whether it's heads or tails.
In conjunction with a quantum version of a logic gate, qubits can do what classical bits can't. There's just one problem – that indeterminate state of 1 and 0 turns into a definite 1 or 0 when it becomes part of a measured system.
Worse still, it doesn't take much to collapse the qubit's maybe into a definitely, which means a quantum computer can become an expensive paperweight if those delicate components aren't adequately hidden from their noisy environment.
Right now, quantum computer engineers are super excited by devices that can wrangle just over 70 qubits - which is impressive, but quantum computers will really only earn their keep as they stock up on hundreds, if not thousands of qubits all hovering on the brink of reality at the same time.
To make this kind of scaling a reality, scientists need additional tricks. One option would be to make the technology as modular as possible, networking smaller quantum systems into a bigger one in order to offset errors.
But for that to work, quantum gates – those special operations that deal with the heavy lifting of qubits – also need to be shared.
Teleporting information, such as a quantum gate, sounds pretty sci-fi. But we're obviously not talking about Star Trek transport systems here.
In reality it simply refers to the fact that objects can have their history entangled so that when one is measured, the other immediately collapses into a related state, no matter how far away it is.
This has technically been demonstrated experimentally already, but, until now, the process hasn't been reliably performed and measured in real time, which is crucial if it's to become part of a practical computer.
"Our work is the first time that this protocol has been demonstrated where the classical communication occurs in real-time, allowing us to implement a 'deterministic' operation that performs the desired operation every time," says lead author Kevin Chou.
The researchers used qubits in sapphire chips inside a cutting-edge setup to teleport a type of quantum operation called a controlled-NOT gate. Importantly, by applying error-correctable coding, the process was 79 percent reliable.
"It is a milestone toward quantum information processing using error-correctable qubits," says principal investigator Robert Schoelkopf.
It's a baby step on the road to making quantum modules, but this proof-of-concept shows modules could still be the way to go in growing quantum computers to the scale we need.
This research was published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0470-y
www.sciencealert.com/quantum-gate-operations-teleported-reliably-first-time
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 6, 2018 11:52:45 GMT
Mind Melting Mysteries Published on Sep 5, 2018
UFOs caught on camera flying past the moon
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 12:37:52 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Sept 6, 2018 21:09:01 GMT
R.I.P. Bandit.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 7, 2018 11:12:39 GMT
![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Ants on the lens
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