Comments on: Open thread 4/3/24

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:57:00 +0000

Boring. Too much theater, not enough science.

By: tim ferrell

tim ferrell — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:08:20 +0000

Geoffrey – another take would be to say that if it is “impossible” then we have to take a fresh look at our theories, and also at our observations. So many of these things are so far away that one look may not be enough. We cannot always be sure that what we think we are seeing is actually what it is.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:00:16 +0000

In the U.S., EVs only make sense to people living in cramped, congested, (stinking and despoiled) urban areas - clearly not in the wide open spaces and fresh air of the rest of the country. EV road trips across the U.S. are impractical. Israel is a different story. It's a small country.

By: om

om — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:05:22 +0000

Unnecessary grid sinks?

Electric automobiles, all of them.

Backup generating capacity made necessary by green energy.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:22:35 +0000

In the video, Items 1,2 and 3, again show that Webb is turning cosmology inside out. Still amazes me that cosmologists are desperately trying to pretzel the current BB model to fit Webb.

physicsguy:

I would be happy to hear you elaborate. I like to kick the Big Bang around, but I know I’m an amateur.

My impression, as an amateur, is that the Big Bang satisfies enough observations, as no other theory does, that it can’t immediately be replaced or easily modified.

Physicists, as human beings, are reluctant to retreat to admitting that they are not so sure anymore. Plus there are many career and financial pressures to juggle.

So, apparently, the default is to wait for a generation of scientists die off as Kuhn called it in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (1962). (Boy, that far back!)

By: Marlene

Marlene — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:05:12 +0000

Kate @ 11:43 am wrote:
“… The thing about AI is that it requires a lot of expensive computing power … ”
I thought crypto mining was a dangerous power hog!
Now, it seems more companies are willing to invest in AI.
How I’d love to see an honest comparison of the top 10 … 5? …. unnecessary electric grid sinks.
Where would AI and crypto stack up?

By: Richard+Aubrey

Richard+Aubrey — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:28:29 +0000

Geoffrey. I believe it was in “Profiles of The Future” that Arthur C. Clarke had a chapter of those never-happen predictions. Fun to read. And that was maybe fifty years ago.

By: Geoffrey+Britain

Geoffrey+Britain — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:43:28 +0000

To state that something that exists should be impossible is to reveal a decidedly incomplete understanding of the phenomena. If it exists… by definition it has by existing proven to be possible.

Perhaps the most famous example of pronouncing something to be essentially impossible is a 1903 article in the New York Times, which predicted that manned flight would take between 1 and 10 million more years to achieve, in an article titled, “Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly.”

Just nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight…

By: tim ferrell

tim ferrell — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:18:39 +0000

See Anton Petrov’s youtube channel for MUCH more on James Webb discoveries and related topics.

By: Karmi

Karmi — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:49:15 +0000

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