Recent content by diogenesNY

Happy Pi Day everyone :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=pi+day&sc=ZBfGciaK2GX310

I remember way back in second grade (circa 1973) posters on the classroom wall, with various illustrations and conversions, proudly proclaiming: "America's Going Metric!"

I think it is worth observing that there appear to be a _very large_ number of variables at work in this demonstration. Consequently you would have to travel down many rabbit holes to begin, even assuming a somewhat loosey-goosey level of precision. One or even several equations will unlikely...

Another possible explanation, meteorological rather than depending on the windows, is something called a 'sundog' or 'mock sun' usually involving refraction through atmospheric ice crystals. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

There has been a revived interest in rare earths in the US over the last decade and there are any number of rare earth mining companies. For various reasons, primarily economic, none of those companies are actively mining. One of them is processing ore that was previously mined and has just...

This might be a good starting point. An article by Charles Lineweaver and Tamara Davis entitled Misconceptions about the Big Bang. This is an article originally published in _Scientific American_ magazine by two astonishingly credible researchers who have managed to pack a whole lot of science...

Much of the content of viXra can be quite entertaining, if you are entertained by such off the wall kinds of things. (n.b. Not all of it is entertaining. Some of it is just plain boring.) Herein, imho, lies its value. One of my favorite vixra offerings was a paper that purported to...

If one visits Walmart, a cleaning fluid named _Bona_ is clearly present at eye level on the shelf, however as far as I know, there is no _Naff_.

I am always in the middle of three or four books, notwithstanding those occasional offerings that I just burn through in a day or three. There are usually three or four more that I am in the middle of but am kind of stalled out on.... I try to go back an finish them, sometimes successfully...

I wonder if ChatGPT can/does consult vixra.org ?

The video of this was shown last night on the TV show On Patrol Live.... Was scary/wild.

While fuel cells have definitely been the leading contender for hydrogen powered vehicles (and there are several methods of generating hydrogen nowadays with a variety of costs and requirements, but that is another topic), there have been some meaningful attempts to build hydrogen burning...

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, this is an extremely easy proposition to experiment. Just drop two reasonably compact items of meaningfully different masses: off a ladder, second floor window, the front porch, whatever. Great accuracy in measurement should not be needed, just make...

Open the pod bay doors, Bing.

Sun Ra stated quite specifically that he was from Saturn. I have no intention of contradicting him.