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trying to work out why no-one that really matters scientifically actually cares
What makes you think no-one cares? I dare say there are theorists agonising over it. One thing there must have been is a hell of a lot of energy.
That blows my mind, as much as some of these time since comparisons.
Not talking about musical merit in comparison to the Beatles and what people think of them, but picking undeniably important or influential bands (also ignoring many are in gestation for years before they become ‘a thing’, and others then reincarnate – so ignoring eg: New Order, and just counting from breakthrough to demise)
The Doors – 5 years
Joy Division – <2 years from TV debut to Curtis suicide, < 1 year from debut album. ONE YEAR!
Smiths – just over 4 years from Hand in Glove single on Rough Trade to Strangeways and break up
Nirvana – 5 years from Bleach to Cobain’s suicide
Even the Spice Girls were done and dusted in 6!!
Meanwhile Coldplay, – 22 years and counting 😉
I don't want to drag this thread down too much of a path, but there's loads of other Cultural Icons who has short runs.
James Dean. His big break was 'East of Eden' released in April 1955, he died in Sept 1955 and Rebal without a Cause released in Oct 1955. 7 months from being a small time supporting actor on TV and Theater to his death, becoming a huge icon in the meantime.
Jimi Hendrix, first big hit in 1967, dead in 1970.
The Sex Pistols, 1 single, 1 album and you might argue lasted about a year.
If we’re doing pop stars,
If only...😢
Dude, I’d have been 10.
I meant your pocket money, saving to buy the single...obvs
Ahem.
Meanwhile Coldplay, – 22 years and counting
Is that all?
You think the USA grew fast, until recently China was using more cement per year than the rest of the planet!
In 2001 I was offered a job as engineering support on a 2 year contract at one of my previous employers, setting up their first facility in China.
It was basically a clearing in the forest with a city of about 5 million a few km away (3 or so million in the urban area, the rest in the "administrative area", however they define that.).
Roll forwards to 2022 and it's a city of over 30 million (urban), the factory is now 4 complete plants and a business park servicing it. Plus half a dozen of their competitors and suppliers are now nearby. The factories are also now completely enclosed by the city (and regularly getting complaints about noise pollution). The original 2 lane road from the city to the factory is one of two major highways used to transport good across china.
And they've gone from having a landing strip to having a fairly major domestic airport.
I don't like to think how much concrete/cement they used to do that.
A while ago, when computer chips were getting faster and faster and all the talk was about how many gigahertz etc I tried to look into the maximum speed possible. I got drawn into stuff about quantum vibration, Max Planck , 10 to the power of minus 37 and other things I didn’t understand. It seems that the universe vibrates more times every second than there have been seconds since the big bang. And that’s a lot of seconds. More than a million, I guess.
I don't know about maximum possible speed but it always impressed me that the speed of an electron is of practical concern when designing computer chips. They're fast enough now that a signal needing to travel a few centimetres can cause a bottleneck.
Electrical signals travel faster than electrons do. A wire is like a pipe that's already full of electrons - you put one in at one end and a different electron pops out of the other. If you had a tube full of ping pong balls and you put one in every second it would take a while for the actual ball to pop out of the other end, however *a* ball would pop out almost immediately.
Credit where it's due Mols, that is about the best explanation I've ever heard.
Is that all?
Feels much longer or shorter MCTD?
What makes you think no-one cares?
OK. So in a poll of 2 science minds that I know, neither is bothered. That's my evidence and I stand by it 😉
Feels much longer or shorter MCTD?
So much longer.....
Fastest Fred Whitton riders averaging 20mph. How is that even possible?
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Go on, ask me...!
Medical imaging is getting towards the point that it can almost track individual thoughts in your head.
The fact your eyes can see almost down to individual photons
Go on, ask me…!
Amazon drop box?
This is the Venus of Willendorf. It was thought to be either a image of beauty or early pornography* Research is now exploring the idea that this (and the various version of it that have been found subsequently) in fact may be one the very first pregnancy diagnostic tools that we know off. A German team did some research that showed that if you look down on these, at the same angle that you could on your own body while pregnant, the images are very similar. It it thought that the idea was that if you looked like the Venus, you had a better chance of coming to term healthily. Another team also doing similar research with other versions.
* Because they were 19thC scientists, every naked image looked like porn to them
Amazon drop box?
Ooh, someone did!
No sir, that is a Classroom Safety Pod. #OnlyinAmerica
Jesus H Christ. 🙁
Big numbers put into some kind of human context blows my mind.
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 31 years
1 million pounds = very rich
1 billion pounds = utterly, madly, incomprehensibly rich
And these aren't even really big numbers!
The size of Stephenson 2-18.
Came up on my feed this morning.
It's big enough that light takes almost 9 hours to circumnavigate, our sun it takes about 14.5 seconds.
If you swapped it into our Solarsystem, Saturn would be comfortably inside the photosphere.