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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Let's Spoil Movies Using Science - Gravity (2013)
Image credit: NASA link Public domain image. This post is not about trashing movies. It is about enjoying movies first and then thinking about the science and technology…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Send Your Clone To Alpha Centauri, Digitally
Image credit: Wikipedia user Abizar link CC BY-SA 3.0 license You may never get the chance to travel to another star but your clone could and it could get there at the speed…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Scaling - Why Ants Bounce But Elephants Go Splat
Image credit: Wikipedia user Muéro link Public domain image Drop an ant and an elephant from the Eiffel Tower. The ant lands softly and survives. The elephant goes splat and…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
What If You Were Turned Into A Black Hole?
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech link CC BY 2.0 license If you were a black hole how big would you be and how long would you last? This post explores the explosive facts…
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procrastilearner (61)in #space • 6 years ago
Will Humanity Turn Mars Into Trantor/Coruscant?
Image credit: NASA link Public domain image. If you are a baby boomer who likes sci-fi novels then you will know that Trantor is a planet-wide city from the Foundation series…
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nonzerosum (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Ageing as a disease: The WHO considers attacking The Dragon Tyrant
If you found out you were going to die tomorrow, would you ask for one more day? Image credit: Pixabay The World Health Organisation (WHO) this week signalled their…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Your Personal Energy "Slaves" - This Is Why We Are So Prosperous
Image credit: Wikipedia user Andreas Praefcke link CC BY 3.0 license Before the industrial revolution most work was performed either by humans or animals. Some civilizations…
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procrastilearner (61)in #math • 6 years ago
Killing Time With Recreational Math - Do The Great Lakes Have Tides?
The oceans have tides and I wrote a post about how that works in this post: Hobbits and Tides - They Are Both Tricksy So now that we know how the tides in the oceans work…
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procrastilearner (61)in #math • 6 years ago
Exponential Functions Are Dangerous - The Economy
Image credit: United States Department of Energy linkPublic domain image. There are many types of functions in mathematics but none is so dangerous as the exponential function.…
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procrastilearner (61)in #astronomy • 6 years ago
How Fast Are You Moving Right Now?
Image credit: NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans link Public domain image. Since you are reading this post I am going to assume that you are…
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procrastilearner (61)in #space • 6 years ago
Going To Mars? Then You Need To Get Your "Tubes" Tied.
Image credit: lunar caustic linkCC BY-SA 2.0 license Human pregnancy in zero gee is a complete unknown and research for animal gestation in zero gee* is limited to a small…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Sorry Kurzweil But The Singularity Is Not Near
"The Singularity."Image credit: Pixabay.com link CC0 license Ray Kurzweil is a famous futurologist that has famously predicted that human technology will eventually get so…
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procrastilearner (61)in #sociology • 6 years ago
Ladies, This Is How You Can Really Smash The Patriachy
Edward Kimmel from Takoma Park, MD link CC BY-SA 2.0 license This post is 50% tongue-in-cheek and 50% serious, so please read it with the humorous intent that is was meant to…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
The Constantly Renewed Generation Ship
NASA/JPL link Public domain image. It is not an exaggeration to say that the stars are far away. The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri is about 4.3 light years away. That…
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procrastilearner (61)in #math • 6 years ago
Thinking About Universal Basic Income And Negative Income Tax Rates
Pixabay.comlink CC0 license Robots, automation, deep learning software and other advanced production techniques are replacing a lot of jobs. It started over century ago with…
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toddrjohnson (54)in #photography • 6 years ago
NASA Spacesuit Photo Styled After Rain Princess
The first exercise of Udacity's Deep Learning Nanodegree course asks the learner to use pretrained deep learning models to restyle photos according to famous paintings. During…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Kill Time With Recreational Math - The Generalized Collatz Conjecture
Wikipedia user:Keenan Pepperlink Public domain image. I normally post every day but this one took me a few days to write the programs and to work out what the results meant.…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemeducation • 6 years ago
Today 200,000 People Learned That Humans Have Walked On The Moon (The Importance of STEM Communication)
Apollo 15 on the Moon.Image credit: NASA linkPublic Domain Mark 1.0 The global population as of 2018 stands at about 7.4 billion and it grows by about 1% per year. This equates…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Even Portals Need to Obey Conservation of Energy
Flickr user: sleighboy link CC BY 2.0 license Portals are a popular transportation device in many fantasy and sci-fi books and movies. Some representative examples are Star…
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procrastilearner (61)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Why The U.S. Space Force Will Be A Lot Like The U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Navy photo courtesy ofUnited Launch Alliance linkPublic domain image. Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump signed into existence the U.S. Space Force I have been…
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