Don't get me wrong, I have a deep detestation for megacities and skyscrapers BUT I must say that from a purely #science point of view, the idea is interesting 🤔

The idea : #RenewableEnergy is intermittent, so #energy storage and release will be critical in the next few decades. IIASA researchers have put forth a fascinating solution, proposing to turn skyscrapers into giant gravity batteries for remarkably cheap renewable energy storage 🌆⚡

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544222010052

The next @GOSH community call is less than one week away! Join us on May 16 at 13:00 UTC for presentations from community members working on #openhardware for #science. Click the link below to register for the call 👇 https://openhardware.science/2022/05/05/may-2022-gosh-community-call-presentations-from-creative-innovation-center-c-i-c-and-gosh-council-member-pen-on-open-source-enhancements-to-wildlife-camera-traps/

This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.

There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.

Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science

This article is a good overview of some of the problems with neo-darwinism: https://www.panspermia.org/neodarw.htm

Darwin, as mentioned before, might himself have accepted the results that Dr. Hahn discovered and personally presented to him.

Yet, we continue to ignore the most logical interpretation of the evidence to the detriment of scientific progress.

#science #evolution #meteorite

📄 An overview of open standards in scientific publishing in the context of #openscience and #openaccess #publishing

Overview of 102 standards and specifications, organized into ten categories. Essential ones were selected by defining an open standard for scholarly publishing as an uniformly documented, widely accepted and used, openly accessible / extensible specification that is applied to the creation, description, production, and dissemination […] #science

https://doi.org/10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPNKUIH.v1

So this is pretty cool. Two of the whales we saw on our whale watching tour are "new to science" i.e. haven't been reported by anyone anywhere on the planet, until I did 😀

https://happywhale.com/individual/74925;enc=240883;event=490359

https://happywhale.com/individual/74924;enc=240882;event=490358

So if you happen to go whale watching, make sure you photograph the underside of the tail and submit your sightings to happywhale.com

#citizenScience #science #whale

Flawed Data

Apparently ... there are different #coping #strategy to deal with unreliable #data. 😂⏱️ 😭

#science #openscience #opendata #openaccess

https://xkcd.com/2494/

Wow very neat! Amazing what we can extract from data sets like this. #astronomy #space #science

New editions of The Nummulosphere Part 3 and Part 4 have been published on Archive.org:

Part 3: https://archive.org/details/kirkpatrick_nummulosphere_part3_english

Part 4: https://archive.org/details/kirkpatrick_nummulosphere_part_4_english

#nummulosphere #meteorite #science #history #ocean

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#meme #tech #science #hack #pirate #tpb
#warez #gab #diaspora #aws #amazon #parler