Both of those would be detected as light coming back, but with different spectra and geometry, so fair enough.

Whatever is not reflected is transmitted. Where else could the energy go?

It helps that the seasons and school holidays are six months out of phase compared to the US and Canada. In essence, you’re comparing Australian winter prices with American summer prices.

Maybe it’s like the GPL: using copyright to ensure it isn’t misused?

Assume a spherical chicken…

Excellent, physics in service of humanity!

Elements formed by alpha capture. Since alpha particles have 2 protons, it’s generally elements with an even number of protons.

Some stellar atmosphere models also add “alpha”, which provides an extra knob for the abundance of alpha-capture elements. If you need anything more than that, you’re doing some niche astrophysics.

Absolutely, but that’s not what your meme says. Peer review in this case says the manuscript should be significantly revised before publishing.

Because Einstein’s science had absolutely no basis in fact.

I’m just getting started!

Iocaine comes from Australia, and Australia, as everyone knows, is entirely peopled with criminals, so I can clearly not choose the goblet next to you.

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Confirmed.

In the best case, the detection is at the 2.4 sigma confidence level (less than the usual 3 for reasonable confidence and will below the 5 required for strong confidence), and if previously suspected issues with the instrument are true, the detection could disappear completely.

I do not have a strong confidence in this result. (But at least they didn’t publish it in Nature, in which case you would absolutely know it’s wrong…)

“Who rescued who?”

This appears to have been fixed! Thank you very much!

Yeah, I have trouble reading the speech bubbles in comics when they are cards, then I tap on the image and it’s fine.

Don’t particularly care about the length. Just make it better than the last one, because it fell a long way down from the first one.

I think you give him too much credit if you think he’s not making everything up on the spur of the moment.