Science stories of the week

Wow, also missed that. He was sort of a mixed bag so far as science idols go. Still, helping find the DNA structure and being paterfamilias of Cold Spring Harbor ain't chopped liver. He seemed to suffer a syndrome common among aging Nobelists, going off the rails. Cold Spring had to disown him as I recall. The cringeworthy eugenics (Crick had a similar trajectory in late career) and Designer Baby shit. I found his edging out Rosalind Franklin from credit for the double helix, and dissing her in his bestseller unforgivable.
 
Pinball1970 said:
There was a worry that this would be shelved during Trump's DOGE lunacy.
I do not want to jinx it but it looks like it is still going ahead.

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This seems to be another IR telescope. But we have the James Webb already. What does this one do that the Webb one doesn't?

P.S. Agree it's lucky not to get canned, seeing as it is named in honour of a woman - or perhaps renamed the Donald Tump Telescope.-_O
 
exchemist said:
This seems to be another IR telescope. But we have the James Webb already. What does this one do that the Webb one doesn't?

P.S. Agree it's lucky not to get canned, seeing as it is named in honour of a woman - or perhaps renamed the Donald Tump Telescope.-_O
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Look, they can call it the Kevin Phillips Bong telescope for all I care as long as they launch it.

JWST has crazy resolution but in a narrow field. Nancy looks at the bigger picture, wide field.
Google says 200x HST view. That's big!
 
Pinball1970 said:
Look, they can call it the Kevin Phillips Bong telescope for all I care as long as they launch it.

JWST has crazy resolution but in a narrow field. Nancy looks at the bigger picture, wide field.
Google says 200x HST view. That's big!
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But that would be slightly silly...............

Seriously, I see, thanks, wide field vs. high res.

P.S. .net seems to be struggling to get going after the latest Cloudflare balls-up (I presume).
 
wegs said:
I’m not panicked yet, but definitely concerned at the speed and consistency of how temps are rising. :confused:
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And it looks like summer 2026 through winter 2027 will be an El Nino year as well, pushing US temperatures up even further.
 
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billvon said:
And it looks like summer 2026 through winter 2027 will be an El Nino year as well, pushing US temperatures up even further.
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Are those El Nino effects localised to particular geographical regions or are they more or less across the global board?
 
geordief said:
Bo

Are those El Nino effects localised to particular geographical regions or are they more or less across the global board?
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Sort of localized to the Pacific Ocean and countries that border the Pacific Ocean, so half the world? Maybe a little less?
 
DaveC426913 said:
I thought it was just mid lat pacific, flowing east. i.e US and Canada.
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Well, it affects circulation in the entire Pacific, since that warm water has to go somewhere after it hits South America.

The map of el Nino below is a little deceptive because the effects on eastern Asia, the Philippines, Australia, and the west coast of the Americas are by far the most significant. The effects on (for example) sub-Saharan Africa are much more minor, and only observable when you average out decades of weather data.

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Pinball1970 said:
Artemis due to launch April 1st for a manned lunar orbit.

www.bbc.co.uk

Artemis II: Inside the Moon mission to fly humans further than ever - BBC News

Find out about the astronauts and spacecraft involved in Nasa's Artemis II mission - the first time humans have flown to the Moon for fifty years.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Thanks for the info. I wonder why it is that nobody seems to care much about this latest set of moonshots. It certainly doesn't excite me this time round. Perhaps it is because the launch of space rockets is just an everyday occurrence these days. But this is actually a manned trip to the Moon so I suppose we should pay a bit more attention to it than to the latest circus act by Muskie.

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exchemist said:
Thanks for the info. I wonder why it is that nobody seems to care much about this latest set of moonshots.
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A few reasons.

1) It's not really a lead-up to a landing the way Apollo 8 was. We still don't have a lander, and SpaceX is moving glacially slowly on it.
2) With the lunar orbital station cancelled, it's not even clear what the mission will look like any more.
3) It's been cancelled and delayed so often that a lot of people are in "wait and see" mode.

That being said, they should get some cool pictures, and that will renew some interest.
 
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