My APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) has stopped updating. Evidently because of the government shutdown. Those bastards!
However will you carry on, Mike Plaiss? 🙂
As usual these days, this news item isn’t very easy to investigate, but I heard it on Fox News, and MSN does have a brief article. From the Hindustan Times written by Shamik Banerjee!?
Jack Smith, special counsel of the US Department of Justice under Joe Biden, allegedly tapped the phones of at least eight GOP Senators as part of his probe into the January 6 Capitol Hill riots, the FBI claimed.
When I first heard this, I presumed the phone call transcripts were dumped from an NSA database, but then there was some mention of cell phone companies simply coughing up requested information. However, cell companies don’t record the conversations. Was it phone call records, or conversations content, or what?
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I quickly searched “operation artic frost” on Bing and got a lot from Co-Pilot as well as the standard search. But from sources like IndiaTimes and the Hindustan Times. Then I noticed I misspelled “Arctic.” Correcting it, I got less pertinent information from that search!
It looks like phone call records were dumped, not the conversation content. So not “tapped the phones.” Still quite outrageous, but not the total NSA style of surveillance.
Scientists in US awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum mechanics discovery ?
The team’s discoveries included developing a superconducting electrical system that could “tunnel” from one physical state to another.
Tunneling??? Prize awarded to Devoret, Clarke, and Martinis.
Martinis, based at University of California Santa Barbara, and his colleagues originally conducted the experiments in the 1980s, with their work still being used in research today.
Oh… the 1980’s indeed! Old stuff. I studied general tunneling quite a lot in the ’70’s.
Clarke, their colleague on their Nobel Prize winning discovery, is a British scientist based at the University of California at Berkeley. He described the win as “the surprise of my life.”
According to him, the three men found out about their win via a phone call. “I am completely stunned. It had never occurred to me that this might be the basis of a Nobel prize,” he said.
A little more about that Nobel prize. I was wondering if it was about SQUID magnetometers, but no; it’s about Josephson junction circuits with a large Bose-Einstein condensate (I think) of billions of electron Cooper pairs. A macro demonstration of quantum tunneling effects.
@ Mike Plaiss > “My APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) has stopped updating. Evidently because of the government shutdown. ”
Well, our leftist friends are always telling us you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
They should be happy Trump is taking their advice, although I’m sorry you were among the broken yolks. 😉
We have some friends who might be part of the furloughed and possibly not rehired cohorts, which would be unfortunate.
However, as many here have noted, people get fired in the public sector all the time, and no one makes a federal case of it, so to speak.
I had hoped the Democrats would see they were playing a losing hand and fold instead of blundering through to the end.
AesopFan:
My furlow date is 10/20/2025. Supposedly, money to man (personnel) safety and nuclear waste monitoring systems will run out in mid November. Will Democrats care?
“A waste is a terrible thing to mind.”
TommyJay-
My understanding is that the Nobel Prize physics award for quantum tunnelling effect is that it has application for quantum computing — a kind of “proof of principle,” I gather.
I remain skeptical that QC is practical. There are many companies and research teams attempting to make it so,
However, I may have to reinvestigate my grasp of the science to remain sure, now.
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My APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) has stopped updating. Evidently because of the government shutdown. Those bastards!
However will you carry on, Mike Plaiss? 🙂
As usual these days, this news item isn’t very easy to investigate, but I heard it on Fox News, and MSN does have a brief article. From the Hindustan Times written by Shamik Banerjee!?
Jack Smith, special counsel of the US Department of Justice under Joe Biden, allegedly tapped the phones of at least eight GOP Senators as part of his probe into the January 6 Capitol Hill riots, the FBI claimed.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-jack-smith-and-where-is-he-now-bidens-special-counsel-tapped-gop-senators-phones-fbi-claims/ar-AA1NYjkF?ocid=BingNewsSerp
When I first heard this, I presumed the phone call transcripts were dumped from an NSA database, but then there was some mention of cell phone companies simply coughing up requested information. However, cell companies don’t record the conversations. Was it phone call records, or conversations content, or what?
———–
I quickly searched “operation artic frost” on Bing and got a lot from Co-Pilot as well as the standard search. But from sources like IndiaTimes and the Hindustan Times. Then I noticed I misspelled “Arctic.” Correcting it, I got less pertinent information from that search!
It looks like phone call records were dumped, not the conversation content. So not “tapped the phones.” Still quite outrageous, but not the total NSA style of surveillance.
Scientists in US awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum mechanics discovery ?
The team’s discoveries included developing a superconducting electrical system that could “tunnel” from one physical state to another.
Tunneling??? Prize awarded to Devoret, Clarke, and Martinis.
Martinis, based at University of California Santa Barbara, and his colleagues originally conducted the experiments in the 1980s, with their work still being used in research today.
Oh… the 1980’s indeed! Old stuff. I studied general tunneling quite a lot in the ’70’s.
Clarke, their colleague on their Nobel Prize winning discovery, is a British scientist based at the University of California at Berkeley. He described the win as “the surprise of my life.”
According to him, the three men found out about their win via a phone call. “I am completely stunned. It had never occurred to me that this might be the basis of a Nobel prize,” he said.
https://www.aol.com/articles/scientists-us-awarded-nobel-prize-110841759.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawNSk_pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE5RHM1ZWFFOUllZjBnME1JAR5kwOc9_yMBFxNgjBVOHK_1JbGotYjK6bsErc3Px1mUDYuMKQhqVACBMi6Dvg_aem_bfOSzFH6FSa81CQlrc3Kfg
A little more about that Nobel prize. I was wondering if it was about SQUID magnetometers, but no; it’s about Josephson junction circuits with a large Bose-Einstein condensate (I think) of billions of electron Cooper pairs. A macro demonstration of quantum tunneling effects.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/popular-information/
@ Mike Plaiss > “My APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) has stopped updating. Evidently because of the government shutdown. ”
Well, our leftist friends are always telling us you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
They should be happy Trump is taking their advice, although I’m sorry you were among the broken yolks. 😉
We have some friends who might be part of the furloughed and possibly not rehired cohorts, which would be unfortunate.
However, as many here have noted, people get fired in the public sector all the time, and no one makes a federal case of it, so to speak.
I had hoped the Democrats would see they were playing a losing hand and fold instead of blundering through to the end.
AesopFan:
My furlow date is 10/20/2025. Supposedly, money to man (personnel) safety and nuclear waste monitoring systems will run out in mid November. Will Democrats care?
“A waste is a terrible thing to mind.”
TommyJay-
My understanding is that the Nobel Prize physics award for quantum tunnelling effect is that it has application for quantum computing — a kind of “proof of principle,” I gather.
I remain skeptical that QC is practical. There are many companies and research teams attempting to make it so,
However, I may have to reinvestigate my grasp of the science to remain sure, now.