as are we all
mostly you tho
― mark s, Friday, 10 November 2023 10:31 (six months ago) link
i am as god made me, sir (a small object estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres (300 and 3,000 ft) long, with its width and thickness both estimated between 35 and 167 metres (115 and 548 ft))
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:34 (six months ago) link
I for one welcome Amaterasu, "one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected".
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/24/amaterasu-extremely-high-energy-particle-detected-falling-to-earth
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 24 November 2023 14:28 (six months ago) link
This article was amended on 24 November 2023 to clarify some of the wording, based on agency copy, that was used in an earlier version regarding the speed of particles.
that copy:
Some charged particles in the air shower travel faster than the speed of light, producing a type of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by specialised instruments.
idk maybe it's technically correct (mutters something about group velocity or c in a vacuum)
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 24 November 2023 14:44 (six months ago) link
The Amaterasu particle has an energy exceeding 240 exa-electron volts (EeV), millions of times more than particles produced in the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful accelerator ever built, and equivalent to the energy of a golf ball travelling at 95mph.
I would not want to be in its way, but a 95mph golf ball does not seem that cosmically terrifying?
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 24 November 2023 14:55 (six months ago) link
what if that golf ball actually went through your brain?
― organ doner (ledge), Friday, 24 November 2023 15:00 (six months ago) link
"In September 2011, it was reported, in a major release by CERN, that a tau neutrino had traveled faster than the speed of light; however, later updates from CERN on the OPERA experiment indicate that the faster-than-light readings were due to a faulty element of the experiment's fibre optic timing system.[12]"
it aint over till…
― mark s, Friday, 24 November 2023 15:03 (six months ago) link
there he is (avi so-called loeb)
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreiaaeozu3pprjamfowgooewxjhnhelx72rn4lrvpy2hx3n7mqezvna@jpeg
― mark s, Monday, 12 February 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
bring back oumuamua
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:40 (three months ago) link
weird gray space dong and name of my wifi network
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:41 (three months ago) link
brb, changing my name to otm
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 12 February 2024 20:00 (three months ago) link