Imagine you find yourself drifting into empty space with no possibility of controlling your spacecraft.

This desperate journey between hope and despair is what the 1997 “Into the void” album by Björn Lynne seeks to capture.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSN_rL21dwM&list=PL681s7S5-qEYKjD7tMz3MD43YW6r9_3ut&index=1

I find many of the tracks to be fantastic. But I have to say that “Relentless” and – above all - “The Nothing” are my favourites. (What a spectacular track that is, “The Nothing”!)

Please let me be clear that this album does not contain any immediate chart-toppers (as I see it). On the contrary, you have to listen to it a few times to get the hang of it. But if and when you do, you’ll be duly rewarded – in my experience.

As you can imagine, I am not the copyright holder of that Youtube entry.

Is this related to SETI@home? Only very vaguely, I suppose. (But enough to warrant a “Don't know where it should go? Stick it here.” post, I figured.)

Hi Puh, I have replied into the Cafe SETI : What are you listening to? thread. See ya there ? ^^

Imagine you find yourself drifting into empty space with no possibility of controlling your spacecraft.

This desperate journey between hope and despair is what the 1997 “Into the void” album by Björn Lynne seeks to capture.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSN_rL21dwM&list=PL681s7S5-qEYKjD7tMz3MD43YW6r9_3ut&index=1

I find many of the tracks to be fantastic. But I have to say that “Relentless” and – above all - “The Nothing” are my favourites. (What a spectacular track that is, “The Nothing”!)

Please let me be clear that this album does not contain any immediate chart-toppers (as I see it). On the contrary, you have to listen to it a few times to get the hang of it. But if and when you do, you’ll be duly rewarded – in my experience.

As you can imagine, I am not the copyright holder of that Youtube entry.

Is this related to SETI@home? Only very vaguely, I suppose. (But enough to warrant a “Don't know where it should go? Stick it here.” post, I figured.)

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

A clue to the magnificent part of this desolation no doubt :)
Buzz Aldrin would surely love this british humor ^^

I hadn't seen that Wallace & Gromit short... Thanks ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VUnQ2qeJbQ

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

“I don’t think you can ask the question of life beyond Earth and stop at microbes.” - Jill Tarter

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

Both LIGO and VIRGO interferometers started on April 1, with improvements based mainly on quantum squeezing of light. They should run for one year, so they maybe will be joined by the Kagra Japanese interferometer. The more there are the better in pinpointing the source of GW, so optical, radio, X and gamma ray telescopes may observe the sources. An automatic signal will be sent to the astronomical coommunity with 5 minutes of a recorded event.
Tullio

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The quantum squeezing of light to reduce uncertainty was thought and tested at the Hannover GEO600 interferometer, which although has only 600 meters lomg arms, is at the leading edge of gravitational waves research. It is managed by The Max Planck Gravitational Physics Institute in Hannover. Hannover has the best beer I have ever drank, at the Alte Rathaus Restaurant. I was there for an Electronic Fair when I worked for Honeywell Bull.
Tullio

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The Hannover Messe this year had this robot called YuMi serving coffee instead of beer.
https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1112779143073185793
YuMi takes center stage in Pisa, conducts Andrea Bocelli and Lucca Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fohc1Qg-rQU&feature=youtu.be

But what does "quantum squeezing of light" means?
Actually that the Quantum Theory works. All the time:) And that we can utilize it's power despite we don't know why it works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_states_of_light#Optical_high-precision_measurements

Btw. The Quantum Foam Theory include both coffee and beer foam.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1124-4

Observation of two-neutrino double electron capture in ¹²⁴Xe with XENON1T
Two-neutrino double electron capture (2νECEC) is a second-order weak-interaction process with a predicted half-life that surpasses the age of the Universe by many orders of magnitude. Until now, indications of 2νECEC decays have only been seen for two isotopes, ⁷⁸Kr and ¹³⁰Ba, and instruments with very low background levels are needed to detect them directly with high statistical significance. The 2νECEC half-life is an important observable for nuclear structure models and its measurement represents a meaningful step in the search for neutrinoless double electron capture—the detection of which would establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino and would give access to the absolute neutrino mass. Here we report the direct observation of 2νECEC in ¹²⁴Xe with the XENON1T dark-matter detector. The significance of the signal is 4.4 standard deviations and the corresponding half-life of 1.8 × 1022 years (statistical uncertainty, 0.5 × 1022 years; systematic uncertainty, 0.1 × 1022 years) is the longest measured directly so far. This study demonstrates that the low background and large target mass of xenon-based dark-matter detectors make them well suited for measuring rare processes and highlights the broad physics reach of larger next-generation experiments.

Now some of the leading astrophysicists are latching on to the idea that the universe we see is just a big hologram projected off a 2D membrane at the edge of the universe. At least that is what I think they were implying Tuesday night on the Science Channel's How the Universe Works". Makes it clear as a bell, HA.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Makes it clear as a bell, HA.

The Holographic Universe Explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klpDHn8viX8
Well. Sort of. Hehe:)
First an explanation to what dimensions are.
The Edge of an Infinite Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJevBNQsKtU

Professor Brian Cox explains the universe as we know it in one hour.
With some help from Eric Idle.
"The Entire Universe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozUST2136R0

On the menu: Special BS !

Misinformation is everywhere. These scientists can teach you to fight BS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/24/misinformation-is-everywhere-these-scientists-can-teach-you-fight-bs/

West and Bergstrom are not the first to teach people how to recognize and fight BS. Journalist Darrell Huff wrote “How to Lie With Statistics” in 1954. Astronomer Carl Sagan published “The Demon-Haunted World” in 1995, in which he offered to readers a “baloney detection kit.” Sagan encouraged readers to look for multiple sources of verification, for instance, and to test every link in an argument’s chain.

Princeton University philosopher Harry Frankfurt published an influential 1986 essay, “On Bullshit”, in which he theorized that BS is distinct from a lie. Truth and falsehood are beside the point of BS, Frankfurt concluded. Its purveyor means to persuade. “It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth,” he wrote. “Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.”

West and Bergstrom’s definition follows from Frankfurt’s: BS “involves language, statistical figures, data graphics and other forms of presentation intended to persuade by impressing and overwhelming a reader or listener, with a blatant disregard for truth and logical coherence.” To call BS is to publicly repudiate “something objectionable.”

The professors’ syllabus went viral, and in the flood of attention, the university gave the professors permission to teach the course. When registration opened for the first “Calling Bullshit” class, in the spring semester of 2017, its 160 seats filled in under a minute, West said.

They are developing an open online course, and they have shared their lessons in public events to reach an audience beyond the typical college-age student. Recent studies have shown that those vulnerable to sharing misinformation online are older than 65 and disproportionately conservative.

Calling Bullshit
https://callingbullshit.org/index.html

Calling Bullshit - Tools
https://callingbullshit.org/tools.html

Calling Bullshit 1.1: Introduction to Bullshit - playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2OtU5vlR0k&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

Hmm. Carl T. Bergström!
Now that's real BS:)

Read the first article "UH OH" then the second article came out "ah, that makes sense"

https://abc13.com/society/strange-flickering-object-appears-near-texas-military-base/5381286

https://abc13.com/society/family-knows-what-sparked-fort-hood-ufo-sighting/5381286

Jodrell Bank gains Unesco World Heritage status


The Lovell Telescope forms the centrepiece of the Jodrell Bank site


Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky (left), who went on three space flights, met Jodrell Bank founder Sir Bernard Lovell in 1967

10 days to go.
Moon landings
Apollo in 50 numbers.
The Technology
The Workers
Medicine & Health
There are also some more good links from the first article.
13 minutes that defined a century
Edit:
The first episode of 13 Minutes To The Moon will be available for download on 13 May, with further episodes released every Monday, culminating in a final edition on 20 July, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing itself. The podcasts can be downloaded from the BBC and from leading platforms around the globe.
Podcasts
Episode 10 available on Monday with Episode 11 available on the 20th.

World Community Grid @WCGrid is hosting this year's @BOINCworkshop (July 9-12) In Chicago.

See live and archived events on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJDOd7pQf1IF8ZxKHpNwung/videos

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why

There are suspiciously few reports of spontaneous lightsaber stabbings to date.

... Their paper explores what the hypothetical consequences might be on the human population if a certain candidate of dark matter turned out to be true. Hold onto your butts, because we got a real weird one here.

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I hope my tax dollars didn't help fund that research.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.