polymath-wannabe.bsky.social
Engineer, technologist, scientist, communicator
Cybersecurity, weather, and infectious disease junkie
Builder of things. Interested in too many topics for my own good.
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NSF has long been a key part of U.S. leadership in science -- and as part of its mission, plays a role in national defense, as well.
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Composed of eight directorates and several offices, NSF funds world-class astronomical and physics facilities, research in weather and geosciences, biology, engineering/computer sciences, and much more.
The beautiful astronomical images distributed yesterday came from a new NSF-funded observatory.
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MORE WILL BE REVEALED TOMORROW MORNING!!
ls.st/rubin-first-...
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(In fairness, you did say it wasn't Relativity, per se)
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Sure. But again, geocentrism really isn't consistent with observations as we have them today.
There's a reason astronomers had to introduce epicycles, etc. and things kept getting more and more complex to account for what we saw.
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However, I don't think I can agree that Relativity says an n-body system's barycenter is a matter of perspective -- at least not from an inertial frame of reference (which is pretty key for Relativity).
Geocentrism isn't consistent with observations.
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You need to throw in a lot of funky math and odd planetary movement, but sure.
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I'm not certain what's got you down, but I've been following your account for a while exactly because you are obviously smart, love science, and are amazing!
Not many people can do what you're doing.
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Seems like they, at least, think things are moving quickly.
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This is my go-to for understanding the process.
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Nick Lane has some really interesting material on this.
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To be clear, there have been other mergers (e.g. the one that gave plants chloroplasts) but they appear to have been largely enabled by the original mitochondrial merger--which itself may have been much more improbable.
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I'm no expert, but from what I've read, lichen are also descended from the single merger event that gave all eukaryotic cells mitochondria.
They also have a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi.
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Going to go with Great Filter - complex life. Mitochondrial-producing cellular mergers are both essential and extremely unlikely.
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They're astronomers.
They're ~loads of fun.
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Welcome!
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(apologies if I'm stating the obvious)
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Perhaps "spurred"?
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Watch Duty satellite hotspot depiction has shown movement to the west through the day, but evac warnings extend significantly to the west, so maybe no need to add to them at this point given the rate the fire is moving?
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Heard this as well.